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journalists clinging to the fantasy that they were *right at the time* now it is no longer plausible to keep carefully avoiding how he is politicising the pandemic.
sure the bloke who briefed against Berejiklian on #RubyDutton was a fucking champion right up until his attacks on Labor Premiers became so aggressive it was no longer possible to keep running cover for him and maintain any semblance of credibility. Course he was.
feelings are not facts amirite.
torture is not irony. It is torture. This is an actual finding of the actual UN Committee Against Torture.
notice it was not the relentless attacks on Dan Andrews for weeks and weeks while he is working 20 hour days on SUCCESSFUL pandemic management but the opportunity to shift the timeframe to a future state election because that way they may be right or wrong whatever no matter.
of all the garbage shifts in journalism and reporting practices I think the reorientation away from reporting news of what has in fact happened toward speculating about what will happen - based on political rhetoric - and feeding into panel shows - has done massive damage.
vicious partisan politics primarily driven by Liberal Party politicians and murdoch employees but something tells me they are not the tribalists* being referred to here.
it is the voters who are wrong.
tribalism and nativism are dreadful words and the purpose is no better: shifting the revolting behaviour of politicians and partisan media onto politically engaged voters. Course voters are also the problem when we are disengaged. All punch-down deflection and bullshit.
and this contemptible crap. A line straight from Morrison messaging massaged into a future timeframe. Bordering on heartless? Is that supposed to be pucking punny? As if there is any shortage of live examples that demonstrate Morrison’s heartlessness.
