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Two Murdoch 'journalists' told me I was in 'bad humour' and to 'delete my account' because I said Northern Beaches locals prefer to remain there (which is fact and not a put down). Is this a good time to remind you how everyone treated Victorians during second wave? A thread
Helpfully, the Herald Sun (Murdoch's Herald Sun!!!) collated some of the memes that were spreading around social media when Victoria's second wave hit. I'm sure the people sharing them thought it was all in good humour, but Victorians didn't enjoy it. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/funny-coronavirus-lockdown-memes-to-get-you-through-today/news-story/97dc97950e8ac6a420ae4cd8af3cfdd9
I saw this one shared a lot. I know many Victorians felt hurt that they were being singled out as to blame for their covid outbreak, because they told me.
This one is on the same theme. All jokes, but all also contributing to the Morrison-Murdoch inspired 'this is all Andrews' fault' political narrative, which had the effect of making Victorians feel even worse about being locked down for months.
There were a few variants of this one. Implying Victoria wasn't 'doing their best' was a key thread of the accusation that somehow the covid outbreak showed the people of Victoria were inferior to the rest of the country, particularly 'gold standard NSW'. So unfair.
This one was shared by another Murdoch newspaper - the Mercury.
There were many more Simpsons memes which all basically said the same thing.
Some of the Melbourne lockdown memes were also celebrated on Radio National by Patricia Karvelas: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/my-feed/12422106
Then there were the memes accusing Dan Andrews of being a dictator. Remember, he was being criticised for not doing enough to stop the spread of covid, while at the same time being slammed for doing too much. No one said media bias was rational. Much of it was unhinged.
This one was shared by Murdoch's Rita Panahi.
https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1259052484716195842
https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1259052484716195842
So, it was clearly open season to mock Victoria from the very first day of their outbreak and lockdowns. Morrison is still pushing his 'NSW is gold standard' which was always an attack on Victoria and Dan Andrews. Victorians deserved better from PM. End. https://twitter.com/Qldaah/status/1339386335228882946?s=20
