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Taken for Granted
Pic courtesy Leader Today Yesterday I went to the state school down the road, and voted in the local government elections, something I'v...
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It's difficult, gentle reader, to ignore the soap opera in train across the Pacific, and once again, I am drawn like a moth to the fla...
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Fascism as a political movement exhibits four basic criteria. First, fascism it is not an ideology, but an activity. Secondly, it...
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A cartoon doing the rounds in the first conscription referendum over 100 years ago. There has been recent media accusing proponents of bot...
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Bolt shoots from the hip from time to time and in doing so his blog lacks attention to detail with spelling and grammatical errors unbecoming a professional journalist.
It is also quite clear that he did not do his homework and many of the things he said about the ‘professional aborigines’ were factually incorrect.
David Marr coined this as ‘sloppy journalism’, and I think he is right.
I believe the Herald Sun will appeal (they are footing the legal bills after all)and the decision will be overturned as it is madness for the legal system to affirm one person’s right to be ‘offended’ by the opinion of another person.
Cav
I agree with your summary, but I can't see that gratuitous offence has any place in public debate, especially when it's conducted by a "professional".
What is madness is reducing the public discourse to rancour and cliche.
We need a body for the press such as the Law Council which strikes off anyone in the profession who infringes against the standards. It works for the Law and Medicine. Teachers (in Queensland) have the College of Education. The Press Council has no teeth.
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