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Study Finds Youth Don't Follow Office Politics
30 jul  |  Young people are flocking to support Barack Obama but still don't care about office politics. Organizations hope to make youth see the importance of getting prime parking spaces or a new desk lamp.  . . read more
Consumers rule in Murdoch's evil empire
23 jul  |  If ever we needed proof of the public's complicity in the News of the World debacle, it came on Wednesday when Wendi Deng defended her husband, Rupert Murdoch, against a foam attack. by Catherine Marshall . . read more
Fox News Attacks Obama & Edwards
20 dec  |  Conservative Murdoch owned Fox News is using bully boy tactics again. This time, they are trying to get Democrat candidates for U.S. President, Senator Obama and Senator Edwards, to buckle to their threats and accusations. . . read more
Are Politicians Failing Lobbyists?
17 may  |  Panelists discuss the alarming trend of politicians who break their promises to the lobbyists who helped elect them.  . . read more
McCain on the Nose
30 sep  |  An edited editorial from The Australian . . read more
Pretend You Give A Shit
26 jun  |  The Onion New Network morning show offers tips on how you can seem informed about politics without picking up a single newspaper.  . . read more
That Sinking Feeling - From The Alchemist
13 dec  |  You almost feel sorry for Tom Switzer, the Opinion Editor of Rupert Murdoch's listing, drifting flagship, The Australian, who keeps trying to defend the indefensible. The mood of the nation has changed. Even the 47% who supposedly voted for John Howard, are thrilled to be rid of the bugger. (The Australian misread the landslide right to the end, predicting a "cliffhanger"). Those who are fed up with Howard, are also fed up with Murdoch's lynch mob ­- the self serving fanatics who hate Greens, love wars and suck up to the powerful.

Flagship Murdoch is in a quandary. How do you open up the Opinion page to a wide spectrum of views, without upsetting the hacks at the helm? Those neo-con groupies of Washington bullies, torture and all, who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into an awareness that emissions matter. Tom's lead tongued asses spent a decade pissing on progressives, but now he's trying to argue that the paper has long been paragon of ideological equilibrium. Sure Tom, that's why you published 25 pieces on Why Al Gore is Wrong about Climate Change. And why you are scratching to name any regular dissenters, apart from the official court jester, Phillip Adams.

While it's silly for lefties to pressure The Australian into purging rightwingers; it's deceitful for Tom to pretend his organ has been receptive to radicals. But that's Murdoch World. . . read more

Crikey
24 sep  |  Aussie politics and media commentary . . read more
Why we shouldn’t care about the loneliness of the university Liberal
12 sep  |  Paul Sheehan wrote an article, in yesterday’s ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ titled ‘Loneliness of the university Liberal’. It was a poorly researched Liberal Party puff piece based on four young women’s testimonials of being ostracised in Australian universities as right-of-centre conservatives. Because of his limited research Sheehan paints very broad brush strokes of our tertiary education system that is both inaccurate and offensive- by Sean Maguire  . . read more
Why bother?- by Sean Maguire
28 dec  |  With the silly season fully in swing it seems strange that newspapers and the media tries to operate. The fact is people don't care right now and people really don't want to be reading about anything more significant than film reviews.

Editors are cluey to this and since time immemorial they use this time to give their poor over-workedwriting staff a much needed holiday; while also keeping a skeleton staff that pumps out what seems to be the news.

Yes, what's published (stories about shopping, warnings about over indulgence) are probably true, but it is worrying to think that the fourth estate of government and one that acts as the white collar's most vehement policemen are sitting on the sidelines. 

Why bother?

Well, if you stop working, stop keeping the bastard's honest and the pricks on the straight and narrow who know's what might happen. 

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