It’s dispiriting reading abc coverage of Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. One day everyone truly will have been against this. It’ feels shameful to be a westerner at the moment.
re The Guardian: '...the remaining leftists inside it keep their head down and think of their mortgage'.
This applies to many journalists in Australia, particularly the ones at News Corp who must be aware they are selling their souls daily.
Reviewing my various subscriptions earlier today, The Guardian & The NYT are looking precarious. The latter gave scant coverage of the No Kings protests held in over 2,000 US cities/towns last weekend.
Drink plenty water, Rundle, it has healing properties.
Yes, there does come a point where continuing to support legacy media financially becomes a defacto endorsement/enabler of the gaping lacuna in their coverage. Propaganda is not just what newspapers/broadcast outlets publish: it's as much about what they don't now. Including their own (dwindling) readership metrics.
Prison reform campaigners looking to find a non-racial element of prison reform, that can interest the wider public, have a perfect one available: keeping criminal men out of women's prison, regardless of whether those men claim a transgender self-image.
There have been two instances in Victoria of men being incarcerated with women:
Segregating prison by sex is not only common sense and also compliant with the "Mandela Rules" UN convention about imprisonment, but going against transgender ideology is also - as Trump's comeback proves - one of the most popular things political actors can do these days. The only cost is the Knowledge Class will hate you...
Spare them a shred of empathy, you heartless prick. The daily paper gangs know they're all riding a dead-flogged-dinosaur into the graveyard of their careers. There's nothing left, no greasy pole to climb; no future, nowhere to go. Op Ed is dead (because comment is, erm, pretty much free, the currency terminally e-diluted). The rounds and specialist beats are long gone, replaced by institutional organic feeds and readymade flak drops (themselves pre-written by AI, pyramid-friendly) - about all that's left for a journalist to do these days is fetch the copy a latte. The arts & culture & lifestyle pap, as you note, are all written by the same three-man committee, if they exist at all. The old staples - obits, puzzles, racing, TV/gig guide, stars, agonies, coded ads for wank mags & glory hole hook-ups in the back end (fnar)....well, you just Google it all, don't you. And as for gossip? That IS the internet. Unrestrained by anything, with the wetspot on the adulterous bed still gunky. A 'CBD' is as pointlessly docile as the obligatory 'blue' turn during a Royal Command Performance.
It's over for them. The poor miserable ghosts (just while we're mentioning the civil dead). Imagine being a forty-something legacy 'Journalist' c. 2025. (The capital flags that your masthead/broadcast home has none left, either fiscal or civic). Carting around a $60K HECS debt for your rubbish B. Comms from Mitchell College, trying to conjure up plausible words enough to fill out the thinning blanks in between Harvey Norman ads and CCP/PRC advertorials.
Poor Stephen, like them all, knows he has only two earning futures: Substack, or Uber. Be a little kind mate.
You may well be right Jack. On all points. So why in the devil do they persist with paywalls? Talk about cut off yer nose …
A grand example turned up less than a trumpian two weeks ago when the farefucks gave their forcibly retired Flanagan,M. space for a succinct piece on the joke that is “The Stadium” - main issue of the forthcoming election here on the Map.
I was able to read it only via a library sub which prevented my copying it and sending it around the Island where it should have been available to one and all.
The fundamental problem deadwood papers have is that they have to pay for paper, ink, presses and distribution trucks. Guy doesn’t have to, and advertisers won’t any more.
I’ll pay Guy for his words, very happily. There’s not a single writer at The Age now of which I can say that.
As for news? I will get that from the SM feeds of those who are living it.
I remember searching for Gaza news in the Guardian in the early months and there was none. Then the same virus spread to Australia. Listening to the news this morning, it was hard to stomach the one-sided coverage of Iran that barely mentioned Israel.
Guy is living in a parallel universe to where most of us are. I subscribed to him because of his clever original posts during the Federal election. But his cheap shots at the MSM (that has to make money in order to exist) and his attack on the Guardian because of it’s realistic and sensible reporting about Israel makes me feel very queasy. Guy Rundle is not for me!
The fact that legacy media has to make money to continue to exist is exactly why it's redundant now.
You should stay, and prosecute your dissenting case(s) in a forum, and to an audience, that will take it seriously - and benefit from it. If it's good enough, HL!
‘Light on’ or otherwise, very happy that you’re tapping out columns.
Take care, Guy.
Good aegrotat!
It’s dispiriting reading abc coverage of Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. One day everyone truly will have been against this. It’ feels shameful to be a westerner at the moment.
re The Guardian: '...the remaining leftists inside it keep their head down and think of their mortgage'.
This applies to many journalists in Australia, particularly the ones at News Corp who must be aware they are selling their souls daily.
Reviewing my various subscriptions earlier today, The Guardian & The NYT are looking precarious. The latter gave scant coverage of the No Kings protests held in over 2,000 US cities/towns last weekend.
Drink plenty water, Rundle, it has healing properties.
Yes, there does come a point where continuing to support legacy media financially becomes a defacto endorsement/enabler of the gaping lacuna in their coverage. Propaganda is not just what newspapers/broadcast outlets publish: it's as much about what they don't now. Including their own (dwindling) readership metrics.
A corrupt, theocratic sham-democracy in the middle east with genocidal designs and nukes..we couldn't allow that could we eh
Going to sue ABC for the RSI I got from scrolling to the bottom of this for the half mention that Israel might: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/is-iran-set-to-leave-the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-/105438606
Prison reform campaigners looking to find a non-racial element of prison reform, that can interest the wider public, have a perfect one available: keeping criminal men out of women's prison, regardless of whether those men claim a transgender self-image.
There have been two instances in Victoria of men being incarcerated with women:
https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/men_in_womens_prisons_is_a_human_rights_violation
Segregating prison by sex is not only common sense and also compliant with the "Mandela Rules" UN convention about imprisonment, but going against transgender ideology is also - as Trump's comeback proves - one of the most popular things political actors can do these days. The only cost is the Knowledge Class will hate you...
Just one of the stories the media won’t tell in this space. The Age sacked Julie Szego for trying to tell part of it.
Spare them a shred of empathy, you heartless prick. The daily paper gangs know they're all riding a dead-flogged-dinosaur into the graveyard of their careers. There's nothing left, no greasy pole to climb; no future, nowhere to go. Op Ed is dead (because comment is, erm, pretty much free, the currency terminally e-diluted). The rounds and specialist beats are long gone, replaced by institutional organic feeds and readymade flak drops (themselves pre-written by AI, pyramid-friendly) - about all that's left for a journalist to do these days is fetch the copy a latte. The arts & culture & lifestyle pap, as you note, are all written by the same three-man committee, if they exist at all. The old staples - obits, puzzles, racing, TV/gig guide, stars, agonies, coded ads for wank mags & glory hole hook-ups in the back end (fnar)....well, you just Google it all, don't you. And as for gossip? That IS the internet. Unrestrained by anything, with the wetspot on the adulterous bed still gunky. A 'CBD' is as pointlessly docile as the obligatory 'blue' turn during a Royal Command Performance.
It's over for them. The poor miserable ghosts (just while we're mentioning the civil dead). Imagine being a forty-something legacy 'Journalist' c. 2025. (The capital flags that your masthead/broadcast home has none left, either fiscal or civic). Carting around a $60K HECS debt for your rubbish B. Comms from Mitchell College, trying to conjure up plausible words enough to fill out the thinning blanks in between Harvey Norman ads and CCP/PRC advertorials.
Poor Stephen, like them all, knows he has only two earning futures: Substack, or Uber. Be a little kind mate.
You may well be right Jack. On all points. So why in the devil do they persist with paywalls? Talk about cut off yer nose …
A grand example turned up less than a trumpian two weeks ago when the farefucks gave their forcibly retired Flanagan,M. space for a succinct piece on the joke that is “The Stadium” - main issue of the forthcoming election here on the Map.
I was able to read it only via a library sub which prevented my copying it and sending it around the Island where it should have been available to one and all.
The fundamental problem deadwood papers have is that they have to pay for paper, ink, presses and distribution trucks. Guy doesn’t have to, and advertisers won’t any more.
I’ll pay Guy for his words, very happily. There’s not a single writer at The Age now of which I can say that.
As for news? I will get that from the SM feeds of those who are living it.
I'd pay still for Nick McKenzie's stuff.
Michael West's is miles better and much cheaper. And not beholden to Gerry Harvey or the real estate market.
The other plus here is that I can nick a bit of real estate from time time for my subs’ investment. Until Rundle gets the shits anyway.
Maybe journalism’s/newspapers’ most fatal mistake over the last two decades has been ignoring/missing the readership interactivity revolution.
Journalists still think (their, of course) one-way pulpit news delivery/sermonising matters.
I remember searching for Gaza news in the Guardian in the early months and there was none. Then the same virus spread to Australia. Listening to the news this morning, it was hard to stomach the one-sided coverage of Iran that barely mentioned Israel.
The Hanging Points segment is why one subscribes - passionate, wide-ranging, informative, nuanced.
(And yes, it's a f-ing disgrace).
Thanks Guy.
Guy is living in a parallel universe to where most of us are. I subscribed to him because of his clever original posts during the Federal election. But his cheap shots at the MSM (that has to make money in order to exist) and his attack on the Guardian because of it’s realistic and sensible reporting about Israel makes me feel very queasy. Guy Rundle is not for me!
Lol. Realistic and sensible? You gotta be joking.
The fact that legacy media has to make money to continue to exist is exactly why it's redundant now.
You should stay, and prosecute your dissenting case(s) in a forum, and to an audience, that will take it seriously - and benefit from it. If it's good enough, HL!