Thursday 28th January 1999


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Murder by Media launch

The report on the launch of Murder by Media, Death of Democracy is now on-line.

On the right is the young lady who played such a major role in helping getting things together over the weekend.

Thanks Shondra.

The Paff factor

There is an interesting example of Murdoch's lackeys spindoctoring in today's Courier Mail.

Background material on "Shreddergate" and the manner in which The Courier-Mail played a primary role in covering up Labor and the Coalition's sins can be seen in the book "Murder by Media" in the chapter "Political Power of Australia's Media Barons". The chapter documents how News Limited have, through the Labor party journalists employed at this paper, covered up the alleged criminal activity by the Goss Cabinet in shredding documents sought by the courts. This has happened on numerous occasions - against the public interest - over an eight year period. The result has been several half-hearted attempts to try and cover up the real sin through carefully positioned "enquiries" which have dealt with side issues.

The latest of these is the "Forde inquiry" whose terms of reference are to investigate the old Heiner Inquiry allegations - shredded by the Goss cabinet in 1990. The terms of reference of the inquiry totally ignore the shredding.

The Forde inquiry has found that children at the John Oxley Youth Detention Centre lived under appalling conditions.

John Oxley Detention Centre solicitor Mark Docwra said, "It was absolutely appalling, I was disgusted. They (the children) were in a dungeon area." Of course all this was effectively covered up for eight years because of the ramifications that Shreddergate would have on Labor's State MPs involved in the Cabinet and the resulting shredding.

At the other end of the scale the continuing onslaught against the character of One Nation MP Jack Paff continues unabated in The Courier-Mail while a Labor MP facing forty two allegations of sexual abuse involving children goes unreported.

The Courier-Mail has again reported on the allegation that Paff ran a red light while trying to get away from the media. Paff has said that the media (Channel 10) fiddled with the video footage - an easy thing to do with today's technology... and I am inclined to agree with him.

The Channel 10 video footage shows Paff's car turning into a street with a red light facing him - I taped this segment which continues showing Paff turning into the street and the traffic light facing the other street still red.

I replayed the footage and at normal speed there is a 5 second gap between the first red light - facing Paff and the second red light facing traffic coming across that intersection. I have yet to see one traffic light in Queensland which takes five seconds to change from red to green after the change on the other side.

Getting back to Paff and the Courier-Mail the report goes over old ground like a worn out tape - regurgitating old news about "Paff expecting to face expulsion from the PCJC" over his private joke to a police officer at a party last year.

The paper contradicts Paff's claim that police found that Channel 10 had doctored the footage with a comment from Chief Superintendent Patrick Doonan saying that no conclusions had yet been made.

This is what Doonan actually said - in the paper's own words "The fact is police did not consider the issue of the veracity of the tape. It was not salient to the issue under investigation which was the guilt or innocence of the driver of the vehicle leaving Parliament House."

Channel 10 News director John Wiseman denied that the tape had been fabricated, "We did not fabricate anything, we do not fabricate anything and we simply reported what we saw." Unfortunately the track record of the media has made that comment hold about as much water as a sieve in the Gobi Desert. 

The Media wall of Shame

Here is an extract from this link:

Phillip Adams is one of Australia's best known left-wing commentators and writes for Murdoch's Weekend Australian. The paper allows him to vent his pathological hatred of capitalism and to savagely libel free markets. He ignored a challenged by The New Australian to defend his political bigotry, continuing to attack markets safe in the knowledge that The Australian's editor in chief will deny his critics adequate space to reply—if he allows them any space at all. Adams' actions expose him as an intellectual coward and a hypocrite.

Norman knows best

Dear Sir,

My goodness, doesn't that Norman fellow know all about the working of ASIO and baggage handling.

Gee, I was impressed. That man is good. I wonder what his surname is ?

Well Scott, you must feel heaps better now that you know that it WAS an honest mistake on the part of Qantas.

I agree with Norman that Qantas honestly and mistakenly singled your baggage, and only yours, out from a whole plane load and honestly and mistakenly sent it to Perth. When your parcel of books was opened, again It was an honest mistake on the part of Qantas, as was the slitting of the lining of your suitcase .. honest mistake, nothing more.

I mean really Scott, there must have been scores of passengers on that plane that had just written an expose of the goings on of the rotten media. Paranoia on your part to think that there could have been anything sinister in the disappearance of your baggage.

Sleep well tonight Scott, Norman has got it all under control.

Well done Norman.

Allan W. Doak

Norman's paranoia

tsk...tsk... Norman,

When will you anti-Hansonites ever learn to stop the name calling ( which seems to be the only effective defence you have to support your views ).

For your information "paranoia" ( Oxford dictionary ) means 1. a mental disorder in which a person has delusions, e.g. of grandeur or persecution. 2. an abnormal tendency to suspect and mistrust others.

Now I'm sure you won't agree with me on this one, but I would suggest that the word "paranoia" would be a more fitting description for the anti-Hansonites.

For example, delusions of grandeur definately would apply to the Laboral parties before they realised how many people supported PHON, and delusions of persecution no doubt applies to those activists and PC extremists in the multi-cultural and Aboriginal industry, etc who are attacking PHON with lies and slander.

Anybody who has taken the time to objectively study what PHON stands for could only conclude that those attacking PHON must fit No 2 above, "an abnormal tendancy to suspect or mistrust others". It wouldn't even surprise me ( considering the way our Laboral pollies carry on about PHON ) if ASIO has developed an abnormal tendancy to suspect or mistrust others.

Peter W

@notd Update

I have "contributed out" all I can say in previous articles in ANOTD, so I have not participated much lately.

I think a good idea for more awareness of the anotd site is to have a series of reciprocal links to homepages of clubs such as 4x4 clubs, fishing clubs, shooters, and other associations. These have active members that get *very* pissed off with current government policies.

Even if it amounts to just asking for volunteers to submit their clubs' monthly newsletter for posting on (or near) the anotd site, in exchange for the clubs putting the anotd web address on their hard copy newsletters that are sent to members, the results would probably be worth it.

The clubs get affected by government policies more than most other entities, so they would be a good source of leads for news stories.

Every club has a member or associate that is getting into internetting, so a whole news-gathering internet network could be set up for free by all those interested. It would become the "Linux" of the news corporations. Packer and Murdoch are the Microsoft of the news world. News shouldn't be controlled and regulated by a few, it should be free to all (except donations could be encouraged by readers to cover expenses, which should be quite a bit less than PackerSoft corp).

If the ALP has union crony bosses as their base, the Libs have employers as their base, then it is only natural that One Nation should have all the clubs and other worthy outfits as their base.

Russell

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