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Right-Populist monopoly media attempts to ‘deprive carbon debate of oxygen' : Comments
By Tristan Ewins, published 3/6/2011This ‘trivialisation’ of politics in Australia is a regular phenomena, and perhaps a deliberate one, having the effect of weakening our democracy.
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You further use a “composite” of electric words and phrases designed to agitate the converted and confuse the opposition. It’s called “plausible intelligence”, it is of course neither plausible nor intelligent but as a tactic it does present well, at least until challenged. At this point of “breakdown” under challenge it becomes “indefensible”.
You seem to have reached a point of recognition that you can no longer defend what you have fabricated. This is because it bares no resemblance to reality; therefore fabrication can only be defended with more fabrication.
I could by wrong and you have the opportunity to demonstrate this here on OLO.
Just to remind you and to avoid you being criticized for going off topic, your assertion is that limited ownership base of Australian media was “restricting” diversity of views. You have failed to show any correlation between the range and diversity of views available in Australia, on any of the policy topics you mentioned, and the number of media owners.
You have defined (fabricated) what you see as “the problem” but have not supported this assertion.
You may well be miffed at those sections of the media that do not conform to your single orthodoxy however, to suggest taxing and legislating against them (Perhaps media diversifications levy? Combined with new cross media ownership laws?), says more about your insecurity and the weakness of your case, than it does about your sincerity.
Bit of a rock and a hard place for you granted. You can ignore us and confirm our assertions, or you can try again and provide the opportunity to critique both your article and your responses, which is what OLO offers all of us.