Fair enough as an article but I will warn the author on one point. Don't treat critics with kindness and reason. The sort of critics who track you down will not respond to a reasoned approach. As I have discovered in the climate change debate, they will take it as a sign of weakness and respond with even crankier load of nonsense. Answer stiffly once perhaps, but if that doesn't work ignore them. A rule I now intend to follow.(Unless you have, actually made an error in which case you should admit to it once and move on. Errors happen.)

Oh man Nina, I was waiting for the bit about misogynist boy club conspiracy that we got from Deveney.

If you like reading self absorbed self indulgent rants have a good read, it's quite the show...

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2895279.htm

Actually the ABC was always a better fit.

'Of course those who continue to commit offence after offence do deserve punishment if, for nothing else, idiocy and a failure to learn from past errors. '

Amen to that one Nina. Apparently she did it for her kids though, and was the victim in a grand conspiracy against women. I hear violins...

BTW: She's called for people not to boycott the paper she was sacked from. How noble! If ever there was an ego that got out of hand...

@Holley: *waves*

Yes I read Deveney's response. And look- (and I think this is fair)- when it comes to this issue I am unimpressed by anyone (regardless of gender, age, ethnicity etc) who fails to learn from their mistakes. The End

'On the one hand there is a need to set and uphold standards of decency and propriety. '

Please give me a break. The hypocrisy is unbearable. Look at the way the vultures attack Abbot about his faith and yet leave the NSW Premier alone with hers because she is pretty, works for the Labour party and is a woman. At least Deveny does not try and hide her vileness. I would love to know what these standards of decency are that Nina upholds.

Kudos Nina. Very diplomatic.

But according to her, she made no mistakes. She was fighting some 'good fight' with some kind of free license to offend Anzacs, 11 year old girls and cancer victims with impunity (while railing against Hey Hey it's Saturday humour I might add) since she's a 'comedienne'.

Now she sees it as censorship by people who 'don't get her', as if it was her God given right to have a sounding board to rant about whatever she wanted and offend the customers regardless of the quality or even comedy value of her pieces.

I think the biggest fear for her is that it isn't because she's a woman or because she's anti-establishment, it actually is because she had run out of tricks and was resorting to cheap shots in a stale routine that had past it's use-by.

BTW: I'm all for pushing the boundaries, but if you push too hard and people push back don't act like a spoiled little child. Take it on the chin and don't make yourself out to be some victim and bring your kids into it and make it a gender issue and make dubious excuses and justifications.

She's playing with outrage as her stock and trade, and when the outrage industry bites back she claims some kind of martyr status. It's quite bizarre. That she thinks people will stop reading a newspaper because she's not in it any more shows how far up her own ass she has ended up.