Hi rotsock,

What a charming collection of assumptions.

If you are a regular reader of OLO you would be well aware of all the international media publications I follow. They are regularly cited here.

You could research these for yourself of course, from both recent threads and from archive. When you have done that you can legitimately point to any gaps in my news gathering that you wish to draw to my attention to.

If you don’t research them and acknowledge them, I will.

Either way you have a choice, you can research the facts and offer an apology for being factually incorrect, or you can forever were the title of “Rude, Ignorant Prat of the Year”. Or as we like to call them RIPY.

There is nothing so pathetic as this fervent belief that the media is 'left-wing'. All media, except for the ABC, which is owned by the public, is owned by big right wing capitalists. Why would a media baron like Murdoch put out news with a left wing bias and promote progressive views when there is this conviction that the left or progressives are anti capitalist and anti business? Why would they undermine themselves?

Our big problem is actually that we do not get enough information from diverse sources with diverse viewpoints.

Thanks spindoc

I could say your response was predictably ad hominem, but the level of bombast and abuse was indeed astonishing. Wow!

As I am writing this I am listening to an interview with Bill Shorten. I must say I'm utterly surprised, that bloke is even more of a dud thatn I thought. He is pathetic with his even more pathetic attacking of Abbott. I can't see even ALP voters to be supportive of this bloke. Simply pathetic.

Wow spindoc, you can dish it out but you can't take it, can you? I don't think I have ever seen a contribution from you that didn't include snide and sneering put downs of those with whom you disagree, yet when you get a mild reaction from rotsock you lash out with yet another insult.

As you are keen on acronyms here's one for you: Spews Pathetic Insults aNd Demeans Other Contributors.

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I agree Shorten is best described as inadequate.