Comments on: Tips and rumours

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The seperated at birth is a tad tastless and fairly insulting to those who lost family members at Port Arthur.

However it’s a perfect example of the lunancy now surrounding this subject.

By: JamesK

JamesK — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The “Separated at birth. Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant?” is an indictment of the writer, the editor and publishers of Crikey. It is a gratiutous insult to Belinda Neal, her friends and family and also to relatives, family and friends of the victims of the Port Arthur massacre.
I DO HOPE CRIKEY PUBLISHES AN APOLOGY AND RETRACTION IN ITS NEXT EDITION. IT SHOULD!

By: Perry

Perry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The Separated at Birth pictures of Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant made me wince when I saw them, and I don’t wince easily. I think this comparison was cheap and unwarranted.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Sign your work you contemptible creep.

By: Bronte Austen

Bronte Austen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Well there you go, I found it hilarious! Actually laughed out loud for the first time in ages - come on, it’s funny because it’s true!

By: Embi

Embi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I agree with Perry. The Age mock-up front page was funny; the separated at birth pictures of Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant was merely offensive. Ms Neal may not be a nice person, she and her husband may have abused their power and done the wrong thing but she does not deserve to be compared to a mass murderer. Shame on Crikey.

By: John Badham

John Badham — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This photographic analogy of Ms Neale and Bryant is a disgrace and Crikey should be ashamed. To suggest that Ms Neale has something in common through looks with a mass murderer is a step too far and giving a woman a kicking when she is down. Where is the editor and where are the scruples Crikey? Shame. Shame. Shame. Get out of your journalistic gutter and get on with real content before you float away with your own sewage and subscriberless oblivion.

By: Florence Howarth

Florence Howarth — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

These pictures are bad media behavior. They obviously been doctored. There were many of the same pictures of Ms Neal in the same clothes yesterday.. No showed the brown shading on her face. What, nay I ask, does this presentation prove? Actually when you look at the pictures, there is little resemblance.

By: Keith Bedford

Keith Bedford — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Like your Beaty comments these pictures are gutter politics. Your contributers have no ethics and neither does your editorial staff. I am heartily sick of gutter journalism in most of the media I read. Why do you do this?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

There is absolutely NOTHING funny, clever, or slick about using Martin Bryant in comparison to anybody. He is still the greatest single mass murderer of our time. You have stooped to the lowest form of gutter journalism imaginable with this one. I was wondering whether I should renew this year. Now I know.

By: brizer

brizer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

F**********ck, that is pretty rank stuff, guys. Neal is no poster child but to associate her with Bryant is way out of line. If I was you I’d be consulting the best defo lawyer I could find.

By: Tom Wood

Tom Wood — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Not right, Crikey.

By: Ray O'Brien

Ray O'Brien — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

You can’t possibly be serious. That is the lowest , stupidest, most pathetic, political comment I have ever seen. The reason I subscribe to Crikey is to avoid that sort of crap. Please reassure me that it was a temporary lapse.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

By Crikey me thinks the comparative photos scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Come on Crikey you surely can do better than that!
I am beginning to feel that the snide remarks being made by quite a few of your articles makes for gutter journalism at its worst.
Some of us are beginning to wonder why we should continue to subscribe.

Harry

By: Darren Holmes

Darren Holmes — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I usually enjoy the “Seperated at Birth” comparisons, but comparing Belinda Neal to the evil that is Martin Bryant makes me go cold - poor taste. I am a Tasmanian commuting to Sydney, and I do find NSW politics fascinating though, reminds me of home!

By: Connor Moran

Connor Moran — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Note to Crikey: Must do much better. “Separated at Birth” part of this piece is ENTIRELY, and I do mean ENTIRELY unnecessary.