Comments on: The Oz detached from reality on Costello memoir http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/the-oz-detached-from-reality-on-costello-memoir/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/the-oz-detached-from-reality-on-costello-memoir/#comment-3846 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3846 What is with Bernard Keane and the Oz? <br /><br />Be careful Bernard. At least the Oz employs a range of differing political commentators and journos whilst The Age does not. The SMH at least still has some right of centre opinions as well. <br /><br />The Age may not be around at least in its present miserable incarnation (if we are lucky) when/if you eventually look for a real job! What is with Bernard Keane and the Oz?

Be careful Bernard. At least the Oz employs a range of differing political commentators and journos whilst The Age does not. The SMH at least still has some right of centre opinions as well.

The Age may not be around at least in its present miserable incarnation (if we are lucky) when/if you eventually look for a real job!

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/the-oz-detached-from-reality-on-costello-memoir/#comment-3847 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3847 Well I don't mind newspapers wearing their biases on their sleeve. Better out than in. Stand for something or stand for nothing. Objectivity and balance is a fraught claim etc etc.<br /><br />What I think is just as useful is noting that like an human endeavour newspapers just plain get it wrong. Old fart Devine for instance airbrushes grand old man Murdoch himself in Adelaide crusading on the wrongful imprisonment of a blackfella in a major crime case. That old Rupe wears today as a badge of honour and fair enough too.<br /><br />Take the Aussie 'climbers' rescued on 'Mt Cook' story about 4 weeks back. The Oz like all the rest got it totally wrong on a basic fact on page 1. They weren't on Mt Cook, or only in the sense they were in Mt Cook National Park the way Mt Kosciuszko is in Kosciuszko NP in a huge swathe of landscape. They were on the foothills and glacier system of Mt Sealy some 10 km south of Mt Cook but who the hell has heard of Mt Sealy? . Media Watch haven't touched it but this blogger knows that all the Big Media stuffed it up and we proved it with maps. Well I don’t mind newspapers wearing their biases on their sleeve. Better out than in. Stand for something or stand for nothing. Objectivity and balance is a fraught claim etc etc.

What I think is just as useful is noting that like an human endeavour newspapers just plain get it wrong. Old fart Devine for instance airbrushes grand old man Murdoch himself in Adelaide crusading on the wrongful imprisonment of a blackfella in a major crime case. That old Rupe wears today as a badge of honour and fair enough too.

Take the Aussie ‘climbers’ rescued on ‘Mt Cook’ story about 4 weeks back. The Oz like all the rest got it totally wrong on a basic fact on page 1. They weren’t on Mt Cook, or only in the sense they were in Mt Cook National Park the way Mt Kosciuszko is in Kosciuszko NP in a huge swathe of landscape. They were on the foothills and glacier system of Mt Sealy some 10 km south of Mt Cook but who the hell has heard of Mt Sealy? . Media Watch haven’t touched it but this blogger knows that all the Big Media stuffed it up and we proved it with maps.

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