by Jim Ball | Oct 12, 2021 | Blog, Media, Media Bias
The pile on of Dominic Perrottet by the media over his ordinary, suburban family values, Catholicism and large family as summarised by Sydney barrister, Gray Connelly is best summed up by the oafish ignorance and bigotry exhibited by Michael Rowlands of the ABC.... by Jim Ball | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog, Covid, Media, Random Notes
If the media stopped reporting, updating and leading their newscasts, front pages and op-eds with Covid cases, deaths and various angles and opinions on this vaccine vs that vaccine,the problem would disappear within days. Sounds counter intuitive, however much... 
by Jim Ball | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog, Media
From the book — The Elitist Media: They’re Not Listening — How the Elites Created The Nationalist Populist Revolution The Elitist Media The media is obsessed with democratic representation. It’s not just in Congress, as was mentioned in the last chapter;... by Jim Ball | Nov 12, 2020 | Blog, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes
It’s very easy to blame the media for their bias and misinformation and it really does exist but I think we need to assume that that is already baked into our assumptions and drives our skepticism and that it’s up to each person to ferret around and find out what’s... 
by Jim Ball | Nov 8, 2020 | American Election, American Politics, Blog, Media, Random Notes, Trump |
Given the revelations in Peter Schweizer’s book Secret Empires and those of recent weeks on the laptop from hell combined with the separate Tony Bobulinski trove of texts, emails, audio files and the breadcrumb trail of evidence of times, dates, people and places, it... by Jim Ball | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Drive by Media, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes
Back in 2004, American talk radio host Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “the drive by media” to describe and compare some elements of the mainstream media, with that of a casual, “drive by“ gang that fires random gun shots at no specific target in no specific...