OMG! Gillard does something I mostly agree with

[jack_ryder]

Kate Lundy has been made a minister!

(though not of communications, sadly.)

(okay - points off for making Bob Carr Foreign Minister, but at least he'll be out of the county. Pity he'll have a return ticket.)

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[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

and one would imagine they have a vested interest in maintaining their "freedom of the press".

Freedom of the press and freedom of speech surely means freedom even for those you might disagree with, such as the Murdoch press and the mining industry. I personally despise the Fairfax press but I wouldn't want to see them silenced.

There's an increasingly worrying trend on the left to see freedom of speech as so valuable that only people on the left can be trusted with it.

The response to Gina Rhinehart's share-buying in Fairfax was instructive. There was shock and outrage on the Left that there was no law to prevent non-Labor supporters from buying shares in newspapers!

The funniest thing about the Finkelstein Report was the claim that the ABC was the most unbiased news source in the country! So at least the guy has a sense of humour.

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

I see "Freedom of the Press" and "Freedom of Speech" to be two different issues.

Bias, of course, is in the mind of the beholder. It seems the right are always ready to call something biased if it doesn't agree with their position. The ABC's attempt at "lack of bias" (I would call it the least biased mainstream media outlet precisely because it has a feedback loop built into it - something the commercial media don't require or want) has reached the point where scientists are asked to justify being scientists. Thanks to the right for pushing them to that position.

I'm so glad you're happy that the mainstream media are "free" to print stories that only back the interests of their proprietors and that you must have welcomed the money = speech equation laid down in US law by the Supreme Court there.

Methinks you're projecting the rhetorical approach of the Right on climate change and other indisputable facts on to the Left.

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

BTW - why don't you use your own blog to express your political view, rather than co-opting those of people you disagree with? Or is that not a definition of "freedom" you accept?

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

why don't you use your own blog to express your political view

I do, or at least I will until the government shuts it down in the interests of "fairness."