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Post by angra on Feb 4, 2013 17:18:24 GMT 10
News seems desperate to make stuff up about how the Government is in chaos, Gillard is a cunning rat for stating an election date, and the Labor hordes are out to get her. And Rudd is preparing a comeback of course (again and again and again).
There are dozens of examples over the weekend, but here's one from today's Terror.
"JULIA Gillard has accused her own MPs of trying to destroy her Government from within as she addressed a shattered caucus ahead of the resumption of Parliament tomorrow.
A source inside the caucus told The Daily Telegraph that the PM said she was aware that MPs had been leaking to journalists with the intention of backgrounding against the Government. Backgrounding is where politicians provide sensitive information to journalists under the assumption they will not be named."
That's it. The whole story. Someone said someone else was unhappy. Some people made negative comments and Julia didn't like it. But we can't name names. And our stupid readers need a definition of 'backgrounding'.
Maybe we get the journalists we deserve, but this is complete crap. A non-story wrapped in a non-headline about nothing.
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Post by Sammy Jankis on Feb 4, 2013 18:16:16 GMT 10
I think the media are angry that her decision to announce the election date has robbed them of months of speculation about the election date. It ironic -- they've been doing their best since 2010 to bring about another election, and now that one's locked in they're pissed off. I don't think there is any way the press will allow the Australian public to make the same mistake as last time. Stay tuned for 7 months of the most pathetic examples political reporting you have ever seen.
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Post by tssk on Feb 19, 2013 11:33:22 GMT 10
Rats, I just wrote something in the general thread without looking in here first.
Three weeks on and the media has decided the narrative. That Julia needs to go ASAP. And they're running their favourite line on Rudd where no proof or negative proof equals positive proof.
"Are you going to challenge the PM?"
"No I'm not."
"Oh did you hear that everyone? He said he isn't. You know what that means!"
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 17:54:23 GMT 10
The spill is on again for tonight, 7.00pm an it has a Rudd involved too this time.
And on State of Origin II, so inconsiderate
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 17:59:58 GMT 10
And Griffith or Lawler are up for grabs if either fall.
What a farce
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Post by Sammy Jankis on Jun 26, 2013 18:12:10 GMT 10
Sadly, it had to come to this. The media steadfastly refuse to cover policy in any meaningful detail as long as the Rudd vs Gillard narrative can be drawn upon for easy copy. The narrative after the ballot: Rudd Wins: The narrative switches to Rudd vs Abbott. Some effort at contrasting the two parties policies emerges in the media. Gillard Wins: The narrative focuses solely on polling. The "Gillard leads ALP over the cliff" meme graces the front pages of the Murdoch press until September 15. Given that these are the choices I hope Rudd wins. I hate that it would be giving the media what they've been asking for for the last 3 years, but it's the only outcome that might see some limits placed on an incoming Abbott government.
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 18:25:46 GMT 10
The ad campaign against Ruddy from the Libs will be hilarious. All those nasty things his colleagues have said about him in one grand montage.
It's almost like Ruddy let Gillard do all the heavy lifting on Climate Change/co2 ets, Asylum policy, Super profits tax which Labor have lost a heap of skin on and is trying to waltz back in after the work is done.
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Post by angra on Jun 26, 2013 18:26:10 GMT 10
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 18:37:32 GMT 10
Got the feeling Bill Shorten is about to switch sides on ABC24 presser.........
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 18:39:20 GMT 10
Looks like he is eating Ratsak while switching to Ruddy. Poor bugger
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 26, 2013 18:41:48 GMT 10
Here's my prediction.
If rudd wins (and if he actually calls the vote, then you'll know he has the numbers, unlike that last one) then the coverage in the luvvie-media will switch by monday from "gillard taking down the government - foregone conclusion" to "damage too great / rifts in party revealed / rudd's past up for grabs - foregone conclusion"
The problem, I think, is that the party is once again falling for the narrative as created through the the media. If they'd ignored that in the first place the last 4 years would have been different. Probably not BETTER, just different.
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Post by chookmustard on Jun 26, 2013 18:55:24 GMT 10
Gillard didn't play the media game like Ruddy did/does. I can see the Daily Terror headline already 'I'm Baaaaaaack'
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jun 26, 2013 19:19:17 GMT 10
What a fine judge of people. Explains a lot, really. Shorten would anger his wife if he sacked Gillard
Bill Shorten would not cross his wife, would he? And she does not mind compromising either her husband or mother:
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Post by angra on Aug 5, 2013 13:41:51 GMT 10
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Aug 5, 2013 18:04:49 GMT 10
That's a surprise - I thought somebody had managed to delay the hearings until 2014.
NEWS'readers don't need to know such trifles. At least not until they've found / made up something else that can be used to attack Ramjan as a distraction. You know they will.
I'm a bit disappointed in the ABC for not at least mentioning it.
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