After rolling in a whole barrel of red herrings Steele Redux and Foxy are off on their own thread within a thread. and holding a contrived private conversation.

Got to say though, no-one does outrage like Media Watch. But then the ABC gives Media Watch and the breathless, always outraged and indignant* Paul Barry plenty of practice.

*on behalf of the ABC, who else? ABC defending the ABC, that is independence and balance for you. LOL

Back to the thread,

Banjo asked if Ms Abdul-Magied has showed up for work at the ABC since, or is she hiding out?

Maybe someone can answer that question. You couldn't miss her, she would be sporting a large red clown nose.

I have misgivings about the Four Corners programme on Assad. The narrative was dominated by one bloke, who seemed to have an axe to grind. Pictures of emaciated-looking dead bodies were taken in the basement of a hospital which the sole informant reckoned doubled as an Assad Abu Ghraib. On the plus side, Sarah Ferguson isn't the type to be snowed by a malcontent with an agenda.

But somehow the story was unconvincing and a stitch-up would fit right in with the Yanks' stubborn refusal to to negotiate for an internationally supervised election, reminiscent of their sabotage of an agreed Vietnam-wide election because the wrong side would win.

There has to be an explanation of why Assad would gas people with no conceivable military incentive when he's winning the war anyway.

Hi Steele,

Sorry, I didn't realise that one of OLO's rules was that it is compulsory to notice and comment on every thread on OLO. Do you have the URL for that thread ?

Did your friend give any evidence for his assertion about:

"Remembering the summary execution, widespread rape and theft committed by these 'brave' Anzacs in Egypt, Palestine and Japan,"

I would have thought that those atrocities regrettably accompany any victorious conquest. My gr-gr-gr-grandfather Bob Higgins was sent out here for pinching a spoon in the Netherlands while a soldier there in 1809. Maybe not quite the same thing :(

Do you have any evidence for these atrocities ? Presumably those mentioned in relation to Egypt and Palestine were committed during the First World War ? And the reference to Japan obviously to the Second world War ?

You and your friend could have mentioned the rapes on Polish and German women committed by the Russians at the end of WW II - but of course they were socialist rapes, not common-or-garden rapes. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands -and thereby millions of rapes - committed by the Japs against Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese women.

Yes, I agree that two wrongs don't make a right, but you need to be more inclusive.

Cheers,

Joe

A few corrections regarding the earlier comments on the
program - "Media Watch."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Watch_(TV_program)

The link tells us that -
Media Watch is Australia's most-watched media analysis
TV program. The program focuses on critiquing the Australian
media. It focuses on any incidents of media misconduct.

It played a key role in revealing the unethical behaviour
of radio talk-back hosts which became known as the -
"cash for comment affair" and was the subject of an investigation
by the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

In other words, "Media Watch," provides a very important and
necessary access to information that is required in a
democracy for citizens to be able to make informed choices.
If citizens are denied access to information that they need
to make these choices, or if they are given misleading, false,
or limited information, the democratic process becomes a sham.

It is therefore important that the media not be censored,
that citizens have the right of free speech, and that public
officials tell the truth.

Fascinating how the hacks whose other qualities :( must have impressed their hiring editors more than their lacklustre journalist skills - because they always end up reporting their own opinion instead - are showing their true colours.

Reporting today, SMH's self described feminist Latika Bourke triumphantly declared in her concluding para that it is the 'conservatives' who took issue with Ms Abdel-Magied's outrageous claim that Islam was the most feminist religion,

"In 2015, Ms Abdel-Magied was named Queensland's Young Australian of the Year. But she has become the target of conservatives ever since she appeared on the ABC's Q&A program and defended Islam as the "most feminist" religion of all"

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/zed-seselja-criticises-yassmin-abdelmagied-over-anzac-day-facebook-post-20170502-gvxp4y.html

Those 'conservatives' so disliked and chastised by Ms Latika Bourke are concerned about the rights and welfare of women.. But what about Ms Bourke?

Issue a large red clown nose to Ms Latika Bourke and wonder how the SMH has sunk so low in its journalistic standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Watch_(TV_program)