by Jim Ball | Mar 31, 2018 | Blog, Crickert ball tampering, Media, Random Notes |
It’s funny how quickly we forget. It was only five weeks ago that Barnaby Joyce resigned after being brought down in another hysterical, media pile on and another round of totally out of proportion, confected outrage and a beat up not dissimilar to that that we’ve...
by Jim Ball | Feb 3, 2018 | Blog, Fake News, Media |
“….For far too long, I was convinced that the media were, on the whole, reliable purveyors of the news. For nearly three years I freelanced happily at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Music and Public Affairs, never suspecting that the Mothercorp was a...
by Jim Ball | Jan 14, 2018 | Blog, Media, Trump |
by Jim Ball | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog, Media, Media Bias, The Left |
Seriously worth a watch. Bill O’Reilly back on Fox for a one off interview with Sean Hannity.Together they traverse much the same ground and range of issues that are going on here in Australia, particularly identity politics along with the grievance mongering and...
by Jim Ball | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Media, Random Notes, Trump |
Fascinating to see the media all purse lipped and prissy over the 10 year old Trump video. They certainly don’t like being marginalised and take themselves way too seriously, like some kind of priesthood. … They are having immense difficulty adjusting to...
by Jim Ball | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Media, Media Bias |
This is a great interview about a new book on what’s going on in the media and why. “Smear — How shady political operatives and fake news control what you see, what you think and how you vote” Although it’s about the media in America we...
