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  2. Looks like the dirt unit is biding their time!
    I’ve got a good bet on with the dirt unit, so they have extra incentive to come up with something good.

  4. Very dissapointing (but not surprising) MSM coverage of Howard yesterday. Focus on how the maestro will use Work Choices to batter Labor just like he has this week with the interest rate rise. Very little critical comment on the the sorry debacle. Honestly it really is alice in wonderland stuff from MSM.

    Why are they persisiting? Are we are mere bloggers missing something? I just don’t get it.

  5. StanS @4

    They are persisting StanS because, for example, at the GG Shamaham is unashamedly acting as a spin doctor for the Liberal Party. There is no balanced Journalism: just a wanky sensationalism and Mr and Mrs Moron swinging voter don’t buy that paper anyway.

    What they will buy and read is the front 2 pages of the Telegraph or Advertiser or Courier Mail or Herald-Sun and look for headlines – oh interest rates went up- and there is a picture of Mr Howard saying sorry but not apologising- Ohhh kayy. Screw you Howard on election day- then they flip the paper over and read the sports pages.

    Mr and Mrs Moron will not read editorials, or statistical graphs, or long winded ‘Hail Howard or Hail Costello’ crap from Shamaham et al in any depth [not that there is any depth to fathom anyway]. I have no time at all for the GG or most of its writers: they bend over for Shamaham and seek kudos from him by becoming apprentice Liberal Party spin doctors. Pathetic paper, pathetic rumour from Crikey’s “contacts” too. This election story is just about over.

  7. Well StanS, with most mainstream journo’s barely passing Journalism 101, I think you are setting the bar too high.

    Expect little from them – you won’t be disappointed.

  8. Need the treeware version or sign in on the web to read the rest :

    Exclusive: Latham lashes greed-driven campaign

    09 Nov 2007 | The Australian Financial Review | Marcus Priest
    Former Labor leader Mark Latham has broken his silence by accusing both the main political parties of pandering to middle-class greed……..

  10. Midnorthcoast, I’d agree on that… although, could the Latham thing really be the “bombshell” story that was alluded to in the rumours/tips? Surely not… the implication seemed to be something more smearish/damning… if something exists at all, that is 😛

  15. William,

    I beg to differ, and it appears that others do also.

    What on earth is this about? (clipped – and edited slightly – from another thread)

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    VoterBoy of Over the Water Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 2:17 am
    Fellow Entrail-readers…

    Given what was said the other day about the supposed publication in the Daily Telegraph of a Rudd story that would make Scores irrelevant, what do you make of this bizarrely concocted headline from today’s Telegraph.

    PM not sorry, election rival ‘gay’

    The gay reference has nothing to do with Howard’s apology – indeed, it makes no sense whatsoever – it’s about Dani Ecuyer using gay men to tout her run for Wentworth, a story that would struggle to get an inside mention in the Wentworth Courier, and certainly wouldn’t appear under the headline “Election rival ‘gay’” because a) that not what the story’s about – the story is ‘Candidate to use gay hunks in campaign,’ and b) any self-respecting journalist, sub-editor or editor would realise that such a headline was potentially misleading.

    Written the way it is, however, it is deliberately misleading. It clearly implies that Howard’s election rival is gay. They couldn’t even be bothered putting in a semi-colon to separate the stories.

    The Liberal Party high command better be praying that its fingerprints can’t be found anywhere near this, or there’ll be the mother of all sh*t storms next week.

    (And btw, Tories, even if Kevin’s as queer as a bottle of crisps, he’s still going be elected PM on November 24th. Get used to it.)

  16. Trioli quitting because of falling ratings, what effect has Uhlmann had on the ratings.

    There is nothing wrong with with Trioli and Uhlman acting as cheer leaders for Howard, it’s a free country and the ABC is there to represent all views, but it appears that the the listeners are getting tired of all the fawning and one sided comments.

  17. From news.com.au

    A new Nielsen poll, published in Fairfax newspapers, has found support for Labor has increased dramatically in the 40 to 54 age group.

    The survey found the ALP has been enjoying growing support across three age groups it monitors but there’s been a 10 per cent swing among baby boomers from 49 to 59.3 per cent on a two party preferred basis.

    The poll shows support for Labor is strongest in people aged 18 to 24 with 64 per cent.

    Voters in the 25 to 39 age group have shown the smallest rise in support for Labor.

    Nielsen’s John Stirton says the only age group where the Coalition is still enjoying majority support is with those aged 55 and over.

    No overall figures or sample size as yet.

  20. Ed@Bennelong Says:

    This is out of the ordinary.
    Heading placement submiminally very nasty.

    Yes but what impression are you left with, more tricky stuff from the Liberal party comes to mind. The incompetence of the Liberal election campaign is unbelievable.

    They are working hard for my bet of 105 seats to labor, go Liberal election HQ.

  21. I can’t believe it, despite having seen it. Are there no depths to which the LNP will sink? Now they’re using their press stooges to run deceptive and misleading headlining, with the clear intention of branding Mr Rudd as a homosexual.

    Two responses:

    1. It doesn’t matter if he is (and I believe that he isn’t)

    2. This takes dirty tricks to a new low.

  23. Let the libs called Rudd like they want, it just gives them less credibility and their rating on this is already in the negative.

  24. Ed, Voter Boy

    The story from the Tele can be interpreted in many ways especially with the picture next to it.

    “PM not sorry, election rival ‘gay'”

    http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22725964-5001021,00.html

    The picture of Costello looking at Howard does appear one of adoration and love, and Costello has long been Howards “election rival for the PM’s job. Is that what the story is implying? Is there more to this long ongoing love/ hate realtionship between the two than we know about, is that why there has been no invitation to Kirribilli, Jannette does not want her rival for affections at the same table?

    Then again, Howards direct rival is Maxine, is that the dog whistle?

    And they mention Gillard in the story, is that another whistle.

    All the story will do is confuse anyone reading it.

  26. That “Telegraph” Headline is bizarre because, for example, their front page coverage yesterday was of a family, Mr. and Mr. Whyte and 4 kids, who are so financially stretched by their mortgage payments after the 6 rate rises that this pilot and lifelong Liberal voter is voting for Labor. And here’s the big kickers is the focus group gold for Mr. Rudd when Mr. Whyte is quoted: “I’m sick of living in an economy, I want to live in a society”. Also, the “Telegraph” cartoon has been giving Team Howard a real beating, directly opposite to my local Fairfax rag cartoonist.

    Hmmm, so much for the right-wing Howard media cheerleaders’ (a plethora of them in the ABC and Fairfax) attempts to spin the latest interest rate hike as a plus for Team Howard and Costello because it the electorate will now be focussed on the Coalition’s polling advantage ground of being better economic managers. Thank god, my fellow baby boomers appear to have not had all of their beliefs in a “fair go” society squeezed out of them in the last dozen years.

  29. I saw the friday morning debate on channel 9 between Gillard and Abbott. Nothing unusual. Abbott is given more oxygen and is allowed to speak at his own pace whereas Gillard is continually interrupted. Karl Stifsitonovic is even resorting to coughing now when Julia is speaking. It didn’t make any difference Gillard brained both of them!

  30. Surely the headline in the Daily Telegraph must have been placed there with the approval of the editor? Which makes his claims the other day sound as hollow as John Howard’s promises over interest rates.

  32. Do a search on the Daily Telegraph site for the term “election rival”. Nowhere – other than this story – do they use it as it is used here – as in “election candidate”.

    The headline clearly implies that Howard’s election rival is gay. It does not separate the two clauses with a semi-colon. There is no reason to assume from the grammar and punctuation that it is referring to two different stories. It is highly unlikely that the Daily Telegraph has ever used such a format to headline two stories.

    The Daily Telegraph now needs to come clean. Who wrote this headline?

  33. Speaking of the ‘election rival’ do we have any idea what sort of vote Danielle Ecuyer might get and who she is preferencing?

  35. It is clearly an attempt to smear Kevin Rudd because the first part of the headline mentions ‘PM’, and the only rival competing with him for PM in the election is Rudd. The first paragraph of the article has now been changed to refer to an election rival, but it has not relevance to the story. The editor of the Daily Telegraph has a lot of questions of answer.

  36. Also, Crikey might like to come clean and identify where it first heard the rumor that the Daily Telegraph had dirt on Rudd for Friday. Who was it – Brian Loughnane?

  37. Am I the only one who read that DT headline as if it was suggesting that Howard was not sorry and labelling Rudd as gay? I thought it was gaffe #2 and trawled through the article for a reference from Howard about Rudd being gay!

    Good to hear that there was no (particularly) damaging story in the AFR or the DT today. I suppose it’s possible Latham could stir up trouble for the ALP, but it’s hard to see how him attacking them is anything other than a positive – though I do agree with his thesis that both parties are pandering to middle class greed!

    I think we’ve all got to the point we’re expecting a Tampa so it’s easy to believe these rumours. 🙂

    Love the Simpsons reference Williams, very well done.

  38. There should be a score here somewhere where the cred of the people who thought the Daily Telegraph would hold a story for 3 days is noted.
    Re, the ‘Gay” headline, What the ? The media in this campaign are behaving much as they always do, its called ‘hegemony’.

  40. Latham writing in the AFR isn’t going to do too much damage. Maybe if he was doing an interview on Channel Seven news it would be an issue – but most outer suburban swinging voters will be at best dimly aware that he has popped his head up.

  41. Yes, it is deliberate for sure. The headline as written (pointed out by vbotw doesn’t separate the two clauses with a semi-colon) and in the article itself, the ONLY reference to the “other half of the headline” is this [

    Click here to see how an independent candidate plans to woo young voters with “climate hunks”.

    ]

    one line paragraph 3 paragraphs into the story. 99% of the story is about “Sorrygate”. I am going out later and will check and see if the paper eidtion of the DT displays the headlines in a similar fashion. Often, the display is somewhat different than it appears on the website. For example, when Cousins news was front and center in Perth a few weeks back, his picture was the front cover of the DT that day although you wouldn’t have picked it from reading the website.

  42. Oh dear, AM on the ABC is continuing with “sorry, but I’m not sorry…sorry?” – I reckon Howard is this close to blowing up over this.

  43. This is nothing. A non-story. If it is a recurring theme it might be something to worry about, otherwise, this is th Tele’s modus-operandi. They put ‘sex’ or ‘gay’ or ‘orgy’ or ‘romp’ in the headlines with the flimsiest of pretexts, and readers of it realise that.

  44. The AFR Latham story is pure gold for Rudd. Better than being seen to stomp on those pesky unionists. The only question is: why did the Fin bother?

    Re the Tele headline – can we please pay attention to the very fetching graphic William put up at the head of this thread? Over-interpretation is, like over-determinism, a sin which must be avoided by all thinking social scientisis (including pseph-heads).

    And, Pathological Logic – please don’t spread alarm any more!

  46. [“Former Labor leader Mark Latham has attacked his ex-party’s election policies and says both major parties in this election campaign are pandering to voters’ greed.

    Mr Latham has been publicly silent since he quit parliament soon after the last election, but he has re-entered the fray with an article in today’s Australian Financial Review.

    In it he writes that the election is “a Seinfeld election, a show about nothing” and that there is no real difference between the parties

    “The dominant ethos is greed, not generosity. I expect a Labor administration to be even more timid, more conservative,” he wrote.”]

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/09/2086066.htm

    The ABC are of course leading with it.

  49. 44 M’sieur CL…
    Trust me, this isn’t over interpretation. Last Friday – and I can say this on an Aussie blog – the British satirical program Have I Got News For You made various coy references to the un-named (over here at least) Royal involved in the blackmail scandal. Of course the Royal wasn’t named in connection with the story. But later, in the program’s “odd one out” quiz, the Royal’s photo appeared against three others – the category being “Who has done something scandalous on a train”? The odd one out was the Royal, who, they said with heavy sarcasm, “has never done anything scandalous on a train”. If the media want to flag something they will find a way to do it.

    The headline is forced – it has a very specific and singular implication from the way it is punctuated, and it does not accurately represent the accompanying story. Combined with the fact that Crikey flagged something like this, I can only conclude two things – one, that someone at the DT is being whimsically mischievous, or two – that someone at the DT is trying to float the suggestion that Rudd is gay.

  50. Morning ‘Bludgers…

    Youse should all get a grip.

    The words “gay” and “rival” being mentioned above a photo of Howard and Costello and youse are worried about Rudd copping the wagging tongue treatment?

    Yous’ve all been up too long. Get some sleep. Have a think about it. We haven’t sunk that low yet that we’d believe a story like that, subliminal or not.

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