MAINSTREAM REDEFINED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

MAINSTREAM REDEFINED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Another point about the lapdog media that occurs is this.

With the internet levelling the playing field, basically none of these second rate minds in the journalism clade are capable of beating citizen journalists ie real journalists- either to the scoops or in accurate reporting.

A so called profession that is beaten at every turn by people like Shaz on Christmas Island, and the people beat journalists by simply providing honest information and opinion with no spin and no agenda.

Something there for the journalists to ponder whilst they're scrawling the latest socialist screed with their crayons and butcher's paper.

Howard Sattler of 6PR in Perth suspended over interview with Prime Minister Gillard - Michael Smith News

Howard Sattler of 6PR in Perth suspended over interview with Prime Minister Gillard - Michael Smith News


I don't know that the AFR or Fairfax in general have so many readers that they can afford to speak with them like that.

EPIC QUAIL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

EPIC QUAIL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Misogynist menu mythology sweeps the planet!
Here’s the Daily Mirror:

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit back after an opposition party fundraiser menu featured a dish named after her that offered “small breasts” and “huge thighs”.
The menu was used at a dinner in March for Mal Brough, an opposition candidate for the September national elections.

Wrong. The menu was produced privately by the restaurant’s owner as a joke and was not used at the fundraiser. The National Post:

Gender has again taken center stage in Australia’s bitter and drawn-out election campaign after a menu at an opposition fundraiser featured a series of sexually derogatory names for dishes based on Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Wrong. Those dishes did not feature on any menu at the fundraiser. The BBC:

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said a menu for an opposition party fundraiser that made crude comments about her body was “grossly sexist” …
The menu was for a dinner for Liberal National Party candidate Mal Brough.

Wrong. The menu was not for Brough’s dinner. Fairfax’s Jacqueline Maley:

Anyone who doesn’t believe that many of the attacks Gillard has sustained are sexist is in pure denial.
Take one look at the latest and get back to me – the menu for a Mal Brough campaign Liberal party fund-raiser …

Wrong. The menu was not for a Liberal party fundraiser. Chicago’s Scott Paulson:

Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia is unquestionably disgusted by the Opposition, Liberal Party’s sexist antics of which she has been targeted. In a bashing of Gillard, a menu displayed at a fundraiser for Mal Brough …

Wrong. The menu was not displayed. AFP:

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday accused the opposition of a pattern of misogynist behavior, branding a menu for a party fundraiser “grossly sexist and offensive” after it featured a quail dish named after her that offered “small breasts” and “huge thighs.”
The menu was used at a dinner in March for Mal Brough …

Wrong. The menu was neither featured nor used. The Guardian‘s Katharine Murphy:

The Australian prime minister has again been forced to confront sexism in the country’s politics after it emerged that the menu at an opposition fundraising dinner offered “Julia Gillard quail … with small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box.”

Wrong. No menu at the dinner offered such a dish. News Ltd’s Andrew Bolt:

The day after Gillard’s speech, we learned one Liberal candidate, former minister Mal Brough, had held a fundraising dinner featuring an appallingly sexist menu mocking the size of Gillard’s breasts and thighs.

Wrong. (Bolt, solitary so far in this list, has already apologised.) Fairfax’s Judith Ireland:

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is standing by Liberal candidate Mal Brough, despite calls for the former Howard minister to be disendorsed after his fund-raiser used a menu that made lewd jokes about the Prime Minister’s anatomy.

Wrong. The menu wasn’t used. Fairfax’s Tony Wright:

By Wednesday, Gillard had the enemy square in her sights, thanks to the revelation that former Howard government minister Mal Brough had thrown a fund-raising dinner in March with Joe Hockey as honoured guest, the menu so overcooked with sexism and idiocy that it’d make an undergraduate waiter spit in the soup.

Wrong.  Sexist and idiotic that menu may have been, but it wasn’t part of Brough’s fundraiser. The Hoopla‘s Mary Delahunty:

Mal Brough’s crude menu of thighs, breasts and worse …

Wrong. It wasn’t Brough’s menu. As sdog points out, Julia Gillard’s misogyny quail is another plastic turkey, and for much the same reason: news organisations and reporters have established a conclusion ahead of all possible evidence. Without timely corrections, inaccuracy becomes reality.

Chinatown, DC: The law used to crucify a veteran doesn't apply to David Gregory. Corruption at its best.

» David Gregory and wife knew D.C. Attorney General - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin Nathan issued a lengthy letter today explaining the decision not to prosecute David Gregory “despite the clarity of the violation of this important law,” despite rejecting NBC’s claims of a subjective misunderstanding of the law, and despite vowing vigorous enforcement of gun laws.
Emily Miller of The Washington Times, who has written extensively about the overly aggressive enforcement of D.C. gun laws, including as to high capacity magazines, reacted as follows:

It is shameful that the politicians running the nation’s capital have sent the  clear message that there are two systems of justice in the city: one for the rich and powerful and one for everyone else.

It further undermines public confidence in such decisions to find out that Nathan knew Gregory and his wife, high-powered attorney Beth Wilkinson.
Anne dug up the connection in which in 2011 Nathan and Wilkinson participated together in a charity mock trial for the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre Company (emphasis in original):

In this town full of lawyers it should be no surprise that this event sold out in 44 seconds….. The attorneys were Beth Wilkinson a partner at Paul Weiss (and wife of David Gregory, aka the Silver Fox, who was snapping pictures like a proud hubby!) and Irv Nathan, Acting Attorney General for DC.  Both were hilarious and Beth looked so great in her black dress and patent leather heels, I was totally motivated to stick to my overly arduous diet.

Here’s an image from the annual report (at p. 58):

Whether this connection meant Nathan had to recuse himself is not a conclusion that people need to jump to.
What’s important is that the connection reinforces public perception, as Emily Miller put it, of one law for “the rich and powerful and one for everyone else.”
James Brinkley didn’t participate in mock trials with Irvin Nathan at the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theater.  He participated in a real trial in court against Nathan’s office, as told by Miller several days ago, If you’re not David Gregory …:

Despite the evidence Mr. Brinkley had  been legally transporting the gun, his attorney Richard  Gardiner said the D.C. Office of the  Attorney General “wouldn’t drop it.” …. Mr. Brinkley refused to take a plea  bargain and admit guilt, so the matter went to trial Dec. 4. The judge sided  with Mr. Brinkley, saying he had met the  burden of proof that he was legally transporting.

Trust no fox on his heath and no journalist on its current affairs programme

JustOneMinute: As The Trayvon Martin Walkbacks Threaten To Become A Stampede

Zimmerman as scapegoat demonstrates the reliability (none), honesty (none) and preparedness to lie and defame (total) of the media.

And yet the media version of JFK and 9/11 is squeaky clean and should be believed?

Suuuurrreee.