Dear SM,

What a peculiar thing for you to say when you
know very well that most people nowadays
get their news from a huge variety of sources.
You also know full well that no Australian
media is monolithically biased as you suggest.
I find it surprising that you continue to
claim snow-white impartiality for political
coverage from your personal preferences
whilst continuing to slam ours.

Disappointing to say the least.

Foxy,

My sources are the Aus and the SMH with some of the overseas media. They are centre right and left respectively, but both have opinions from both sides.

However the IA and the NM are both unreservedly far left whinge with several authors with only scant knowledge of what they write about.

If you can't see this then I am disappointed in you.

Dear SM,

You're disappointed in me. I'm disappointed in you.
I guess that makes us even. Disappointments are
part of life - it's something we shall both have to
learn to live with, because I suspect with us it
will be an on-going thing as far as politics is concerned.
Ah well.

cont'd ...

I shall repeat what was stated earlier:

Media ownership in Australia is notoriously narrow.
Mainstream media offers precious little diversity
and such as there is runs along predictable lines.
But it's also the internet that offers a vast supply of
news, especially opinion. Those of us who are torn
between the desert of mainstream media and the jungle
of the internet need a place where national but diverse
views can be found on important issues. New Matilda
is such a place. As Julian Burnside, QC stated:

"It would be difficult to agree with every view
expressed in the columns of New Matilda, but it would be
difficult to disagree with them all. And it would be
impossible to criticise any of them as irrational or
foolish."

Obviously, you have no difficulty in disagreeing.

See you on another discussion. Where I dare say more
of the same will follow. That's to be expected.

Shadow, you never disappoint me, your links to the Murdoch tabloids on this forum are legendary! There is no virtue in being Piers Arkman's parrot.

Happy New Year!

Hi Paul,

Murdoch seems to have a very large menagerie - in today's Australian, there is a terrific article by William Galston, a long-term Democratic Party stalwart and policy writer, perhaps an inspiration for the 'West Wing'. It would be difficult to slag Murdoch as a Trump-supporter, don't you think ? maybe there is some good in everybody :)

All the best for Christmas and the New Year,

Joe