Wow....I think the city of moonbatville has had it's population go up by one.

Trying to claim that there are only 'token lefties' at the Australian is hilarious. Unless you are an extremely left person (being a sociology lecturer [and at Griffith at that] this seems quite likely), and count anyone to the right of you as conservative this sort of comment is ludicrous.

s/oppose/impose

At least these newspapers are not paid for by the taxpayer. Our taxpayer funded national broadcasters are nothing more than propaganda vehicles for the lefties. The sooner the public purse is pulled on these marxist the better. It would be good tp turn them into sporting channels.

Ignoring the claims of post modernists, which are beyond me in their wilful complexity and arguments on reality and claiming that the most important role of the media in a democracy is reporting the news completely and honestly.
I would argue that the electorate gains most of the information on which they base their ‘informed vote’ derives from this. I would agree that the media in general has become a diatribe of opinionated posturing with aims of the owners and commercial success looming larger than their function.
The Iraq war is the latest example of reporting to support an aim just as the leaked ‘Downing Street Memo” claimed.
To be semi informed at the risk of being foolish in the claims one makes requires long hours surfing the web seeking truth and information.
The most recent to come to my attention and whilst I can’t claim diligent search of the media it does seem to be underreported or omitted.
This concerns the view that rapid withdrawal form Iraq, becoming any withdrawal in the politics of the day in the immediate future, certainly no telegraphing of intent. Such it is said would incite the ‘terrorists’ incited by our presence and actions to further efforts.
Withdrawal also involves reduction of effort by the Coalition Provisional Authority. See paper by Christopher Doran entitled ‘A Militarised Neo-Liberalism: Australia’s Economic Politics in Post Saddam Iraq”
Further search leads to Antonia Juhatsz amongst others. The author cites many references which should be checked plus some of the contrary facts , if any a tedious time consuming effort but necessary if the media is not doing its job.
This in turn leads to the pre planning for commercialisation of post invasion Iraq by Bearing Point, formerly KPMG Consulting (Arthur Anderson) turning Iraq over to Betchel, Chevron, Halliburton, Exxon and others.
Gives cause to wonder about the vehemence of no withdrawal. But the current world is so full of disinformation, (Competition) as to require more checking.
Please check!

Christopher writes reasonably well when he remembers to take his little blue pills - and he does ache for an appointment to one of howard's boards.
Whereas Janet just wants to retain her nice little earner as a member (chosen for her "talent" :-) by the 'lying rodent' of course) of the board of the ABC.
Yes that's the ABC that many of those who are a little right of adolf hitler C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-L-L-Y and never endingly claim that it has views to left of joseph stalin. If the-our- ABC upsets you precious petals then PLEASE! switch to the commercial stations, or get a knowledgeable person to operate your remote, the programmes on these channels would be more in line with your intelligence, I mean you do not have to think. Regards, numbat

Is is just me, oe does anyone else think the Australian print media and radio is overburdened with opinion? I can't comment on TV as I don't watch it. I looked at the SMH this morning and found two broadsheet pages filled with letters, two editorials and three opinion columns. It's enough to make you choke on your Weet Bix.

Aside from the occassional column by Hugh Mackay (which contains useful tidbits drawn from his qualitative research), most of it is fit only to line the budgie cage with.

If I want an opinion on current affairs, I'll form one for myself, thanks all the same.