In the Media section of today’s Australian, I explain that I have found outlets for my writing in places such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Australian, ABC’s online publication the Drum and even Fairfax titles outside Melbourne such as the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald. Unfortunately, I haven’t been received as well by Melbourne’s fading newspaper The Age or the online publications Eureka St or Crikey. “My experience is that The Age’s ideological bent was so marked towards the Greens political party that they do not tolerate a non-socialist left, non-Greens and non-conservative point of view. When The Age eventually ceases publication every newsagent south of the Yarra will know why…” After being stonewalled by the Age for so long I tried Eric Beecher’s publication Crikey, who published one or two of my articles.That, however, soon stopped, at which time I apparently came to the attention of the wonderfully weird so-called “Canberra correspondent” of Crikey, Bernard Keane. Bernard, a former obscure official in the finance department, is the poor man’s Mike Carlton. He dispenses insults to all and sundry who disagree with his sometimes iconoclastic and adamantine far-left outpourings, and tweets incessant and personally vituperative attacks on Israel, me and my supposed “role” in directing policy there, a wider public know of his obsessions… Keane’s insistent and strident Twitter persona is somewhat inconsistent with his role as an impartial Canberra observer and political correspondent... As Crikey’s patron himself has stated: “There is a clear need for newspapers and other media platforms to have a policy about how their writers and their big name talent use Twitter. Are they tweeting as individuals or are they tweeting on behalf of their newspaper? I would have thought it’s implied, particularly when you’re tweeting about a subject or story, that you’re representing your masthead.” To read my comments as they appeared in full in the Media section of the Australian, follow this link: danbymp/published-articles/2113-crikeys-cranky-bernie-unfortunately-typical-of-some-intolerant-media.html
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 06:05:37 +0000
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