tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post2732957240411221815..comments2024-02-12T15:25:44.028+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Australian blogger Andrew Bolt: All attitude - no researchSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-11616170642821276482015-05-23T00:48:38.952+10:002015-05-23T00:48:38.952+10:00Don't forget, Maurice Newman, worlds greatest ...Don't forget, Maurice Newman, worlds greatest climate scientist and Tony Abbott's business advisor used to be the Chair of the ABC. Abbott made sure the Secretary of PM&C (Prime Minister and cabinet) replaced the more moderate members of the panel responsible for ABC board appointments with idealogues like Janet Albrechtson (Australia's Anne Coulter) and Michael Brown (ex-Deputy leader of the Liberal Party).<br /><br />Newman's poisonous legacy. And all in the name of "balance" ...Frank Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-86202636499800315182015-05-22T22:51:21.324+10:002015-05-22T22:51:21.324+10:00I feel the ABC has been thoroughly got at. IPA s...I feel the ABC has been thoroughly got at. IPA stooges popping up everywhere<br />BtMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-8207567251761906362015-05-22T16:27:17.810+10:002015-05-22T16:27:17.810+10:00I do not know who is - are you suggesting he is an...I do not know who is - are you suggesting he is an Australian?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552461190113661645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-16296553363077923572015-05-22T16:16:50.679+10:002015-05-22T16:16:50.679+10:00A you saying it is a Poe?A you saying it is a Poe?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552461190113661645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-25636954662426603952015-05-22T14:25:24.476+10:002015-05-22T14:25:24.476+10:00I notice Switzer got in the obligatory falsehoods ...I notice Switzer got in the obligatory falsehoods / bullying about Tim Flannery's comments a decade ago: it's a much-fondled icon of the IPA /Newscrap reliquary.<br /><br />Boilerplate: models 'grossly exaggerate' / lift the poor out of poverty / no global warming this century / CO2 is plant food [ "biosphere has been improved tremendously" said Lawson !] / climate enthusiasts / green fanatics.....zzzzzz<br /><br />The old fool and his lickspittle do not stray from script.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09537772941984056434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-666650680433772892015-05-22T13:32:27.739+10:002015-05-22T13:32:27.739+10:00Switzer is an IPA stooge....the ABC is being spike...Switzer is an IPA stooge....the ABC is being spiked with these professional liars nowadays. Probably a board directive. Need some leakers.<br /><br />The Country Hour is another area that calls up bullshitters like Patrick Moore in the name of 'audience demand'...I've had unsatisfactory exchanges with their producers.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09537772941984056434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-69450009505693574332015-05-22T13:27:30.049+10:002015-05-22T13:27:30.049+10:00The piece I was thinking of was on "7:30"...The piece I was thinking of was on "7:30" the other day. Generally a good program, but I felt they were sorta screwing the pooch on this topic.<br /><br />They have their own comments and suggestions page: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/contact.htmContrail Chooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-60823328331086283182015-05-22T13:21:11.156+10:002015-05-22T13:21:11.156+10:00Let's see if it makes it to the ABC Media Watc...Let's see if it makes it to the ABC Media Watch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552461190113661645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-68077346997477668942015-05-22T12:18:48.688+10:002015-05-22T12:18:48.688+10:00I mean "as any others". Typo. :PI mean "as any others". Typo. :PContrail Chooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-55377383868142021862015-05-22T12:17:53.368+10:002015-05-22T12:17:53.368+10:00Might well be. I realise the ABC is constrained by...Might well be. I realise the ABC is constrained by its charter to exercise balance in reporting, which is totally fine, but they often seem to fall into the trap of equating real balance, which would include appropriate context and evidence, with simply giving a false impression that unsupported and unsupportable positions were as valid and any others.<br /><br />It's as if they think climate science really is just a matter of opinion, and is to be treated like any subjective social issue. They really don't seem to get the difference.Contrail Chooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-8069815931641491942015-05-22T12:07:43.445+10:002015-05-22T12:07:43.445+10:00I missed both of those. Time for some questions of...I missed both of those. Time for some questions of our ABC?Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-44450127225110260922015-05-22T11:55:44.783+10:002015-05-22T11:55:44.783+10:00I was thinking something is wrong the other night,...I was thinking something is wrong the other night, when the ABC had what was basically a throw-away fluff piece about the recent Lomberg debacle. Sure, they did give the Climate Council a chance to have a say, but they devoted just as much time to letting Lomberg spin his yarns, and they didn't make any attempt whatsoever to refer to important factors like the inquiries into Lomberg's twisting of science and economics. They really just turned it into a short sequence of he-said-she-said with no other context.<br /><br />Now you might think that, since climate science really is an issue of national importance and even national security, that the national broadcaster would make a serious attempt to present a real analysis of the situation. I'm tempted to ask them why they won't. With the Paris conference on the way, I'd expect the ABC to pull their socks up rather than just constantly pandering to the old "false balance" idea. Contrail Chooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-32174586118798154642015-05-22T11:47:06.157+10:002015-05-22T11:47:06.157+10:00I posted this last night on another thread but giv...I posted this last night on <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/05/tom-harris-free-speech-and.html?showComment=1432208217150#c9186031604827981371" rel="nofollow">another thread</a> but given the context it is probably more relevant here:<br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />Lest any Australian here is labouring (boom-tish) under the apprehension that the ABC is an objective broadcaster, let me remove all doubt. It seems that the creeping tendrils of political pressure from the conservative federal government have turned the notion of balanced reporting into a caricature of impartiality, with tonight's episode of "<i>Between the Lines</i>" being a puff piece of airtime made available for Nigel Lawson to lie, misrepresent and libel his way through one of the most spectacular Gish gallops I've heard in a long while.<br><br><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/betweenthelines/new-climate-deal-faces-hurdles/6481810" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/betweenthelines/new-climate-deal-faces-hurdles/6481810</a><br><br>The pseudoscience memes came too thick and fast to log whilst I journeyed home, and to add insult to injury the interviewer, Tom Switzer, revealed himself to be a denialist fluffer of almost Boltish proportions.<br><br>Something is seriously wrong in our national broadcaster.Bernard J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16299073166371273808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-8802554134299591232015-05-22T08:34:36.660+10:002015-05-22T08:34:36.660+10:00"Australian blogger Andrew Bolt: All attitude..."Australian blogger Andrew Bolt: All attitude - no research"<br /><br />This is not news. It's more like a fundamental law of physics.Contrail Chooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-91509868630952114392015-05-22T08:02:16.648+10:002015-05-22T08:02:16.648+10:00Bolt is a terrible host. He offers the same measly...Bolt is a terrible host. He offers the same measly bowl of rotting cherries to his guests, who he either ignores or censors. Has cost his employer quite a lot of money through his aggression and sloppiness. Must be worth it, his wrecking crew is in power partly through his anti-learning crusades.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09537772941984056434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-81646800204211199002015-05-22T06:35:14.077+10:002015-05-22T06:35:14.077+10:00Our Andrew gets his "science" from WUWT ...Our Andrew gets his "science" from WUWT and Jo Nova mostly. I haven't seen him write about Force X and the Notch yet. And he did disown the chap from the Galileo mob when he went ga-ga with a weird anti-Semitic conspiracy theory:<br /><br />http://www.readfearn.com/2013/02/climate-change-new-world-order-malcolm-roberts-ben-cubby/Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-50794254260071934882015-05-22T05:49:54.178+10:002015-05-22T05:49:54.178+10:00This dude.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28...This dude. <br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/bolt-found-guilty-of-breaching-discrimination-act/3025918<br /><br />One of the more well known of Rupert Murdoch's down under stable of hard right shock jocks with a newspaper column and a TV show and the ear of our climate science denying Prime Minister. <br />MikeHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-6116555275346474522015-05-22T04:44:59.792+10:002015-05-22T04:44:59.792+10:00Is that this guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An...Is that this guy?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bolt<br /><br />"...and starting an arts degree at the University of Adelaide. He left university to take up..."<br /><br />That is not somebody whose opinion I'd be favouring over every prestigious scientific body on the planet, unless the topic involved colouring in with crayons.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-71586959734290975362015-05-22T03:34:21.815+10:002015-05-22T03:34:21.815+10:00Your Aussie pseudo-skeptics are really out-of-cont...Your Aussie pseudo-skeptics are really out-of-control. I saw a post with the title "A global ‘Iriai’ in place of the ecomodernist neologism" over at Climate Etc, and I guessed right that Ellison the Chief Hydrologist was the author. Totally whack.<br />As we Americans would say: Where do you find these people? Is the idea of the prankish Larrikin still a cultural icon there?@whuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297101284358849575noreply@blogger.com