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The Forum > General Discussion > Professor Barry Spurr suspended by Sydney University Over Offensive Emails.

Professor Barry Spurr suspended by Sydney University Over Offensive Emails.

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Love your style, otb,

You yodel from the rooftops when a loudmouthed teen female gets pinged for a spot of disgusting name-calling at the footy...and yet you can't wait to get your boot into a female if it tickles your partisan fancy.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/31/malcolm-turnbull-attacks-publication-salacious-material-nova-peris-controversy?CMP=twt_gu

"Malcolm Turnbull says the publication of personal emails apparently sent between the Labor senator Nova Peris and the Trinidadian athlete Ato Boldon went too far, labelling the coverage “salacious”.

“I always err on the side of press freedom, but I have to say it’s pretty distasteful collection of correspondence,” the communications minister told the ABC on Friday. “Journalists and editors have to exercise a degree of discretion."

"Peris was not a senator at the time and has denied any wrongdoing. She said she was separated from her husband, and the emails were used as part of an extortion attempt.

The emails also contained outline intimate details of what was said to be the personal relationship between Peris and Boldon. Boldon has called the NT News report a “gross fabrication” and threatened to sue.

“The release and publication of these emails is an attempt to extract money and embarrass me and my family. With legal options now exhausted, this other party has turned to the media,” Peris said.

She accused the NT News of being “well aware these emails were part of a long running family dispute ahead of its publication”."
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 31 October 2014 1:59:17 PM
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Foxy has developed an echo again.

Shucks it is only Poirot with an invitation to play Poirot's parlour game of 'Tit-for-Tat', where Poirot continually introduces irrelevancies and the game goes on for pages.

One of your playmates, perhaps the very, very patient Shadow Minister might be available for you to indulge your Abbottophobia. Because that is always what it turns upon for you. Although how you will be able to make this into Abbott's fault, goodness knows. LOL
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 31 October 2014 2:39:16 PM
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Sorry, otb....I'm gonna have to report you to runner for plagiarising his !whizz-bang! term "Abbottophobia".

Lol!
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 31 October 2014 3:19:47 PM
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I must congratulate the the progressives for now turning someone who displayed despicable racism and contempt for her marriage as the victim. Only a progressive could do that. Amazing! Well with moral relativism why should we be surprised. Now its all about the intention of the leaks not the hard fact. Of course with Professor Spurr it was all about the content and nothing to do with sleazy regressive politics.
Posted by runner, Friday, 31 October 2014 7:15:07 PM
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otb,

Why do you do it?

When presented with evidence and facts by Poirot
or anyone else for that matter instead of
admitting you got it wrong - you again continue
with the same old tactics of extreme views and
attacks. How can anyone take you seriously.

As I cited earlier - "when you rely on surface
appearances and false stereotypes rather
than evidence, facts, or any in-depth knowledge
your ability to assess and understand people
accurately is compromised.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 31 October 2014 7:21:16 PM
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Foxy,

Cobblers! Here is an expert making the very point that others have been trying to convince you of here, but obviously it doesn't suit your partisan politics The NT News is supported too,

<JONATHON HOLMES: There is a pretty strong public interest justification for what they've done, just as there was for what New Matilda did in publishing the private emails of Professor Barry Spurr.

I don't think it would be logical frankly to say one is justified and the other isn't, because there is a strong public interest case in both of those.

LINDY KERIN: So the NT News hasn't done anything wrong here or News Corporation hasn't done anything wrong?

JONATHON HOLMES: Look, of course, you can argue, that they published too much for the purpose or that they shouldn't have published the email about Cathy Freeman or they didn't' need to put in all the salacious details, but as I say, I thought it was a lay down public interest case for the publication of the Barry Spurr emails and I don't think I could logically say well that one's okay but the Northern Territory isn't.

LINDY KERIN: And Jonathon Holmes says Nova Peris' claims that the emails are part of a family dispute are irrelevant.

JONATHON HOLMES: Very often there is ulterior motives on the part of the whistleblower or the person leaking or whatever. Sometimes that's a personal reason, but if you're satisfied that the documents are genuine, then really the motive of whoever supplied them to you is beside the point, and I think that's a general rule.

I think most editors look at the material and say are we satisfied that it's genuine, is there a strong public interest case for publication and if the answer to both of those is yes then you publish.>

The World Today (ABC) Friday October 31,2014
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2014/s4118752.htm
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 31 October 2014 7:52:50 PM
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