The Blog Wars

It’s been interesting watching the looming battle between News Limited mouthpieces Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair and Crikey’s new blog Pure Poison

I was always a big fan of Boltwatch because Andrew Bolt’s free reign of deceptions is something that should be challenged. SoI’ve been following their new blog from the very beginning. It started off well with a few keen insights into why people like Bolt and Piers Akerman are often guilty of the very misinformation they often criticise the Left for. However, once Bolt began subtley (I say subtle because he refused to link to the blog) accusing Pure Poison of writing outright racist comments on his blog in an attempt to vilify him, it went a bit downhill from there. It has become a bit of a “he said she said” game over the blogs.

I see that Pure Poison have made a couple of posts since sticking to the original aim of the blog, I hope they keep this up and it doesn’t dissolve into just petty in-fighting. As much as I think Andrew would like it, I hope you guys don’t stoop to it.

In the mean time, I , like a growing number of people I know, consider Google Reader an essential part of my day. And it has a permanent slot in my Firefox tabs. So if you have any interesting media related blogs you think I should be reading, please comment and let me know, I’ll look into them and link to them from this site too, if they take my fancy.

Obama Fever

Obama - can he save the world?

Obama - can he save the world?

Inauguration coverage had been fairly interesting this time round. Obama has been painted as president and saviour of the world by a number of news outlets.

I know America is a powerful country, but does the media really need to remind them of this fact? And while we were busy celebrating the new king of everything, what exactly were our own politicians getting up to? You know, the people we actually elected to run the place…

No Country for Rudd’s Pensioners

Savage scenes in Melbourne last week as thousands of pensioners refused to put their clothes back on until a clearly broken Wayne Swan gave them all the money, in the form of a pension increase.

One of the biggest issues to come out of the first Rudd Government budget was that there was no increase in the base pension. All they wanted was an extra $30 a fortnight. In Sydney, 2UE’s John Laws wannabe Steve Price and A Current Affair‘s Ben Fordham have brought up the issue again and again. Week after week of crying on-air about the evils the new Labor government had done to pensioners. Stories about poor pensioner-star Betty and her fight against the Man!

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