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Back In A Bit

December 19th, 2009

During 2010 I’m travelling through India, the Middle East and northern Africa. Follow my trip at the Crikey blog Back In A Bit

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Article at Crikey

October 16th, 2009

Published today in Crikey’s subscriber email:

Bolt’s blog: why the apologies will continue

No matter what you think about the man’s work, there’s no denying that Andrew Bolt writes an extraordinarily successful blog that boasts “more than one million hits a month” and “as many as 13,000 comments in a week”. There is no doubt that it’s one of the biggest — if not the biggest — blog in the country in terms of readership and participation. The effort that must be required to manually moderate every single reader comment is mindboggling, and it sounds like Bolt does a decent share of it himself (“more than 10 hours of every choked week”).

Genuinely, I dips me lid. However, as Bolt discovered this week, if a single comment is approved that causes immeasurable hurt to one person (especially if that person is a prominent journalist and opponent of the blogger), there will probably be trouble.

Read the whole article …

Because some things just deserve a wider audience

September 30th, 2009

This morning a couple of off-topic comments lobbed into Pure Poison from another single-issue nutter who sees a giant media/political conspiracy wherever he looks. As usual we didn’t approve the comments but this only served to motivate this particular nutter. In no time at all he was threatening to expose us on Twitter as the evil conspirators we clearly are.

Crikey’s, in the tweet below, are fearful that knowledge will leak out about their cover-up of Editor Fagan’s cover-up of Hallam’s crimes.

After repeatedly failing to get any comments published, Don Ross emailed the Pure Poison authors.

Subject: Hello the Fulsome Foursome, A good tip to you personally but not to Crikey members in general. Cheers and good luck, Anon.

Crikey, you guys are not the sharpest arrows in a Fletcher’s quiver …

The email, CC’d to most of Australia’s major newspapers, contained a creative Photoshop of the Pure Poison logo.

So I replied to Don’s email.

UNSUBSCRIBE

But somehow Don took my smartarse reply to be genuine interest and emailed me back. (If only I’d ignored him like the other guys did.)

From: On 4/08/09 Fotheringham admitted Hallam falsified certificate under BCC instructions by BCC Arborist Mr Fletcher. Evidence for police investigation requires Bligh to respond on behalf of Beattie . [XXXX@optusnet.com.au]
To: $$ Scott Bridges of Crikey a blind leading the very dense [sdebridges@gmail.com], “Mark Day covers-up Wardill’s cover-up of crime.” [XXXX@ozemail.com.au]
CC: $$ Syvret hides Hallam’s extortion crime to prote [XXXX@qnp.newsltd.com.au],
“$$ Syvret sees no Hallam falsification.” [XXXX@thecouriermail.com.au],
XXXX@qnp.newsltd.com.au,
XXXX@qnp.newsltd.com.au,
$$ Sashka Koloff on behalf of Jo Puccini [mediawatch@your.abc.net.au],
XXXX@newsltd.com.au,
madonnaXXXX@bigpond.net.au,
Bill Conor was aware of falsified cerificate on 2 [XXXX@griffinhilditch.com],
$$ Fotheringham never denies his blatant falseho [XXXX@griffinhilditch.com],
$$ Fotheringham flopped after Anstey & Anskern hi [Danielle.Trezise@griffinhilditch.com],
“$$ Crikeys swear black & green they see nothing.” [XXXX@crikey.com.au]
Date: 30 September 2009 11:50
Subject: Hello Scott, Just a wee bit of spoon feeding to give you a head start on the journos North of the border. You have to laugh, journalists no more honest than lawyers. Take care, & good luck with the cover-ups. Don Ross

Hello Scott Bridges, Crikey’s Team,

I sense in you I can get another Syvret-type character to commit hara kiri.

Just respond to this email honestly or as best you can.

Scott, two lawyers from South Australia & two arborists will go to jail for missing the extra SULE falsification shown below. Sure, it takes time, Scott, to achieve that result but if lawyers wander into an engineering field expect the unexpected.

Deborah Blythe of the CMC did not like to read my emails on 21/11/2006 but you are a “come in spinner” type of journalist I would like to come aboard.

Sir, why not write to me again and claim there is some way that the assertion in the red font above will not be proven true but see if your argument is fair & honest before you send it off.

Dozens of Syvret’s, Soorley’s, Williams’s and Houghton’s emails never achieved that standard.

Remember, Scott, when push comes to shove, journalists, politicians & lawyers, in my considerable experience, lose all ability to make intelligent observation because falsified government certificates are plain for all jurors and honest persons to see.

Ciao & I always welcome my getting another Syvret in tow,

Don Ross.

Wow. Just wow.

Not an either/or proposition

July 2nd, 2009

This article was first published in the Crikey subscriber email.

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It must be pretty humbling to feel your power slipping away. And not just slipping away to an equally powerful competitor, but slipping away to — gasp! — ordinary people.

Let’s just say you’re the Australian head of a massive, global media company and that you’re accustomed to people doing what you say. You grew up in a social and business environment where money meant power, where media barons were the only people who could afford to communicate directly with large numbers of people; it has been this way for as long as you can remember, and as long as your father’s generation can remember for that matter. But one day along comes this thing called The Internet, promising to democratise the flow of information, and something terrible begins to happen: the plebs grow bold and start to rise up, empowered by having their voice heard, unworried about profit or business models. If you were that media baron what would you do? Would you adapt or would you atrophy?

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Nothing’s off limits for Bolt’s pompous point-scoring

February 9th, 2009

This article was first published in the Crikey subscriber email.

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In July last year a newborn baby, umbilical cord attached, was found dead in a rubbish bin in regional Victoria. The traumatised local community and a stunned nation felt sadness for the child and concern for the unknown mother. There is an unspoken understanding in the media that such tragic events should not be the catalyst for political or ideological point scoring, but that didn’t stop Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt from callously using this child’s death as an excuse to lay the boot into environmentalists because the body was inside a green shopping bag.

» Read more: Nothing’s off limits for Bolt’s pompous point-scoring