Foxy, "Numerous studies have shown that there is little or no
relationship between educational achievement and job
performance or productivity"

Assertions without sources. What studies and conducted by whom? The peer reviews in professional journals please.

To the contrary, Australian professional qualifications are very reliable indicators.

The professional colleges of (say) engineers and medicine an the public are rightly concerned about some of the qualifications and training of graduates being imported from overseas.

Maybe some of the engineers reading this thread might have something to say about the multicultural affirmative action policies of federal and State public agencies that result in our own and very competent professional and a good example is engineers, being coaxed to sign off on sub-standard work done by imported professionals. Then there are the problems experienced by the Qld State health department with imports who claim registrations they don't have.

You need to cite those blogs you cut and paste from. You might also re-consider the advice given to you so often by other posters, to rely on authoritative news sources rather than fringe blogs and 'opinion' shows that are just entertainment for the easily led.

Blaming the media is a common pastime of the manipulative 'Progressives', aka the 'Fabian Socialists', the wolves in sheep's clothing (their logo) aka international socialists (Marxists) and others with a secondary agenda to serve.

So,

Janet has a doctorate in Law, Miranda has a degree in Mathematics, Bolt and Piers have a long history of serious journalism. Alan Austin has none of that. The reason he has never been sued for his falsehoods is mainly because no one cares about what he writes.

As far as qualifications, do you see a doctor with no qualifications? Abbott is a Rhodes scholar and beat the snot out of Labor.

The reason that the left whingers hysterically accuse these journalists of lying is because they have more credibility than the labor sycophants in IA and NM, and people listen to them.

Shadow Minister, "The reason that the left whingers hysterically accuse these journalists of lying is because they have more credibility than the labor sycophants in IA and NM, and people listen to them"

Free speech is under concerted attack in Australia and in the West generally. What Foxy and others have as their goal is media self-censorship. They have been successful in many cases, assisted by Labor ministers like Nicola Roxon, who framed laws to muzzle any who might disagree with her world view.

SM,

You view things one way, I another.
To me most of the Murdoch publications openly spruik
for conservative politics. Not just in the opinion
pieces but in their news pages as well.

Essential to free enterprise and democracy is access
to information free of distortion. That's not something
that's available from Murdoch publications.

I do not believe that our MSM should be controlled by a
selected few - so that they can push their own barrows.
And there's quite
a few people who agree with me - which is why independent
media sources are surviving becoming increasingly more popular
and doing very well.

Whether MSM can change or not - (as it sees fit) is
becoming less relevant - because the rest of
us have already moved on. - We get our information
from sources that do provide serious journalistic endeavour,
and give us an ennobled and thoughtfully significant
coverage of policy and ideas. Sources that don't deal
purely in slogans and cheap impressions. Sources that
aren't dependent on the division of opinion. Sources that
don't stick to just a few themes and hammer them over and
over. And journalists who are qualified to discuss
economic and social issues - dealing with facts not innuendo
and generalisations and labels.

But that's just my preference.
It's very different from yours,
obviously!

Foxy,

Those media outlets you label disparagingly as 'MSMs', using the Progressives' tactic of trying to get some negative stereotyping going as a way of poisoning the well against opponents rather than dealing with their arguments, are answerable to all manner of time-honoured ways, including to their investors.

If you really were concerned with 'independence', that is if you weren't solely about pushing your opinions and agenda onto others and they can go play shut-up, you would be rooting for freedom of speech.

But your enemy IS freedom of speech isn't it, and you spruik for laws that control and censor. Nicola Roxon would be another of your pin-up Grrls. Oh that's right, she is another who talks of Labor as a party for 'Progressive' politics. 'Progressive' as in Fabian Socialist aka International Socialism aka Marxism, and loss of the freedom of Australia and Australians.

No wonder the old union and Labor stalwarts are confused. Their Labor was put under new management years ago. It is Labor in name only, ought be 'Progressives' or 'Fabian Socialists', or more correctly 'International Socialists'. The Labor stalwarts thought they had a foot on those types years ago, but obviously not!

There would be many migrants who must shudder at the thought of the authoritarianism and creeping totalitarianism of the 'Left'. I used inverted commas for 'Left', because any self-respecting old lefties would abhor the Authoritarian Left and the fascism implicit in the ultimate goals of the 'Progressives'.

SM,

I want to take this opportunity to wish you
and your family a safe and prosperous New Year.
I look forward to more robust discussions with
you during 2014.

Enjoy this special time of the year with your
family.

Cheers.