by Jim Ball | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog, Global Compact on Migration, Migration, Random Notes, United Nations |
I would like to imagine and would much prefer this to be a tin foil hat conspiracy but unfortunately it isn’t and apart from anything else this should be front and centre at the next election. I blogged on The UN Global Compact on Migration here and here when...
by Jim Ball | Sep 22, 2018 | ABC, Blog, Random Notes |
Almost on cue and running parallel with the series of letters in The Australian on the ABC on Friday 21/9,the ABC’s very cosy and inclusive panel on The Drum on Thursday night, were discussing, of all things, in this age of post truth, the topic of trust in media. The...
by Jim Ball | Sep 22, 2018 | ABC, Blog, Fake News, Random Notes |
Most professional media organisations having been caught out confecting then peddling a totally bogus story, which, having been denied by those central to it, would be shame faced, go quiet and move on. Not so the ABC. There’s was Geraldine Doogue doubling down on...
by Jim Ball | Sep 15, 2018 | Blog, Hate Speech, Racism, Random Notes |
Denise Shrivell says “I pick up various issues such as hate speech in our mainstream media.” The thing about these recently contrived and confected accusations of hate speech is that the term is ill defined, very slippery and mercurial and very much in the ear of the...
by Jim Ball | Sep 15, 2018 | ABC, ABC bias, Blog, Groupthink, Random Notes |
In pulling all the threads together on a range of political and social issues, Chris Kenny again exposes the very lack of diversity the ABC loudly and publicly espouses. The Orwellian boilerplate line about “Diversity is one of the ABC’s key strategic drivers” is up...
by Jim Ball | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog, Downer, Random Notes, Tony Abbott |
Worth noting that Abbott did the honourable thing and gave Turnbull a seat at the table both in opposition and government. Unlike Turnbull, Abbott understood the importance attached to Ministers not being able to speak out on issues other than their own portfolio and...
