In Reply to: Cliff, thought you'd be interested in... posted by slab on Saturday, 4. June 2005 at 08:55 Bali Time:
The word "indonesian" for the phrase "right wing Christian" and read the whole article again, will it change anything?
Andrew Bolt is the worst kind of journalist.
He doesn't seek out news and report on it. He seeks out public opinion and then retrospectively finds news to ratify that opinion.
It is "journalists", and I use the term as loosely as possible, like him who have caused the very problem he is pontificating upon.
Meanwhile, genuine journalists like Matthew Moore have been giving the real story from the beginning. (Though, if you listen to his on-the-spot reports and compare them to the shared-byline print reports in the Age, you'll notice that the latter offer a skewed view of what he originally said.)
The article you've reproduced here represents the hypocrisy I posted about a few days ago. It's exactly the sort of article we didn't see before that dumbass sent powder to the Indonesian embassy. And there's no better person to stand as a poster child for hypocrisy than Andrew Bolt.