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It should come as no surprise that the mainstream media in the US is left-wing. But Australia’s media left is just as out of touch as its American counterpart.
If derangement over Trump persists, read your WWII history
Contrary to the slurs against Trump, there is no one in mainstream politics in Western democracies who can remotely be compared with the founder of the Nazi totalitarian dictatorship.
Israel critic allowed to make unchallenged claims on ABC
During the segment Patricia Karvelas made no attempt to correct or verify her guest’s undocumented assertions. And the ABC wonders why ABC Radio National Breakfast continues to lose listeners.
ABC lacks diversity and conservative voices – that’s a fact
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ABC’s fact-checking Karvelas silent for Israel antagonist
Patricia Karvelas has a record of interrupting and even fact-checking her interviewees, but her failure to challenge Levy’s claim was poor journalism.
Republican cause no match for the star power of monarchy
I voted Yes in the republic referendum. A quarter century later, the queen is dead and it’s ‘Long live the King’ as Charles III makes his first visit as monarch.
Odd panel of ‘experts’ brought in for 7.30’s US election segment
The ‘experts’ included an Australian leftie who uses the term gerrymander, apparently without knowing what it means – and an American professorial election snake-oil salesman.
Don’t bet the rent on Payman’s staying power
The Labor defector seems to channel Kamala Harris in her inability to answer quite simple questions about what she stands for and what she will do in a position of political authority.
Nevermind the Middle East, Tony Armstrong’s departure ABC Breakfast’s big story
Despite the abundance of news on Friday morning, ABC News Breakfast spent a large amount of time fawning over Tony Armstrong who has left the program after three years.
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