Don’t mess with Aunty and her Green mates or else!

Quentin Dempster, The New Daily, yesterday:

Nauru has effectively declared the ABC persona non grata … slamming … (it) as arrogant, disrespectful and an “activist media organisation”.

Activist? Tim Elliot, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2012:

(Fran Kelly, host of ABC’s RN Breakfast) … cheerily admits … “What I really am is an activist.”

Activist? ABC News online, April 12:

(Yassmin) Abdel-Magied … (host of ABC iview’s Hijabistas and) Australia Wide has been a vocal campaigner on diversity and religious issues … she … (got) into a shouting match … on Q&A over sharia law … (and) on Anzac Day … (wrote): “Lest. We. Forget. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…).”

Aunty stood with News! Dempster, The New Daily, yesterday:

News Corp …(is) dissociating itself from the Canberra press gallery … (boycott) … (yet) the entire Australian media industry … stood with News against the 2012 move by the Gillard government to regulate the Australian print media …

Stood with News? ABC Insiders host and Labor ex-adviser Barrie Cassidy, ABC Online, March 21, 2013:

(Despite this) hysterical debate … some layer of oversight beyond the Press Council is needed … journalists … should lift their sights beyond the self-interest of proprietors … (not) slavishly (follow) … commercially driven dictates … That is not an attack on a free press, just common sense.

Turn the Oz into Aunty! ABC RN host Jonathan Green, ABC online, March 21, 2013:

(The) print media (is) shrill and calculatedly mendacious … tabloids have abandoned any pretence of referencing truth … objections to the Conroy package … could best be described as a feverish work of elaborate misinformation. If Stephen Conroy was Stalin, then the Australian media was doing its best to be Goebbels … Imagine … (in) five years … The Australian has closed on the death of … Rupert Murdoch … to rationalise an old man’s empire of influence and indulgence … (why not) publicly fund (it)?

Standing with News? ABC’s Lateline, March 12, 2013:

Emma Alberici: … if a media organisation does not comply with the directive from the Press Council … (can it) send that proprietor to jail?

Conroy: … (The) public interest advocate … will judge … this heavy-handed intervention … (from) News … is just a little bit of extra theatre …

Alberici: … thanks … for joining us …

Standing with News? ABC1’s 7.30, March 13, 2013:

Leigh Sales: Sydney’s Daily Telegraph … (likened) Stephen Conroy to despots, dictators and mass murderers: Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim, Mugabe, Ahmadinejad … Joseph Stalin … imprisoned (critics) in their millions … (he) didn’t pop up legislative packages for people to … pass through a parliament, he just rounded up people with opposing views and executed them … It gives critics an opportunity to say, “Well, there you go, that’s why the media needs more oversight.”

Partisan! Dempster, The New Daily, yesterday:

News’ … often-glaring partisanship …

Who? Tim Barlass, Sydney Morning Herald, November 22, 2014:

Dempster (described) … Turnbull as “a bullshitter” … Greens Senator Scott Ludlam captured the mood of the crowd when he warned … “We are going to relegate these people to an historic footnote … it’s going to read like a warning to all future governments. Don’t mess with Auntie.”