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Dopey journalists.
Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:21am

Appalling standards of journalism are wide spread in this country. Don't they check and recheck their stories.

Since when has Tumut in NSW been anywhere near the Riverina district?

A woman has spent three days pinned under a car in NSW's Riverina region.

The 45-year-old crashed her car on Christmas Day, sending it plunging down an embankment off Wondalga Road, in Tumut.

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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Take the plan, spin it sideways Posts: 7057 Gender:	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #1 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:24am Maybe it was a really, really long embankment.
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blackadder Gold Member Offline Posts: 1977	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #2 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:28am Annie Anthrax wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:24am: Maybe it was a really, really long embankment. Maybe Annie. Check out http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1324856414/15#15
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FRED. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3698	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #3 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:28am Annie Anthrax wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:24am: Maybe it was a really, really long embankment. WOULD THAT BE THE A B C
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blackadder Gold Member Offline Posts: 1977	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #4 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:29am It's on MSN Fred.
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Reply #5 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:35am

blackadder wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:21am:

Appalling standards of journalism are wide spread in this country. Don't they check and recheck their stories.

Since when has Tumut in NSW been anywhere near the Riverina district?

A woman has spent three days pinned under a car in NSW's Riverina region.

The 45-year-old crashed her car on Christmas Day, sending it plunging down an embankment off Wondalga Road, in Tumut.

Investigative journalism takes time and effort, it's much easier to copy information from Facebook and Twitter.

I know that on a certain sports forum, the posters made up a rumour that a player was healed from injury and he was ready to play against the Japanese team.

A half a dozen Aussie sports journo's ran with it and it ended up hitting papers in Europe and the UK until eventually someone asked the player and he said he was wondering what all that was about.

Long story short, one of the journo's tracked the source of the rumour back to the forum.

How many celebrities have been announced "dead", evidence collected via Twitter.

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########## Ex Member	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #6 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:42am You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his party survives. Dont bite the hand that feeds you!
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FRED. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3698	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #7 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:44am blackadder wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:29am: It's on MSN Fred. AND THE ABC
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FRED. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3698	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #8 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:46am Quote: You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his paty survives. Dont bite the hand that feeds you! FFS HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO GET ABBOTT INTO THIS YOU MORON
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########## Ex Member	Re: Dopey journalists. Reply #9 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:47am If your looking for something to read; http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3750120.html
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Reply #10 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:37am

FRED. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:46am:

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You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his paty survives.

Dont bite the hand that feeds you!

FFS HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO GET ABBOTT INTO THIS YOU MORON Angry

It's the way of morons Fred.

When vegetables very important AA batteries go flat she blames Abbott.

A hint vegetable. Buy four AA rechargeable and you will always have a spare set. Make sure you get the polarity right otherwise you will be going instead of......

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Reply #11 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:42am

blackadder wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:37am:

FRED. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:46am:

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You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his paty survives.

Dont bite the hand that feeds you!

FFS HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO GET ABBOTT INTO THIS YOU MORON Angry

It's the way of morons Fred.

When vegetables very important AA batteries go flat she blames Abbott.

A hint vegetable. Buy four AA rechargeable and you will always have a spare set. Make sure you get the polarity right otherwise you will be going instead of......

So you agree then. Yes under REAL journalistic scrutiny Abbott and co would crumble.

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Reply #12 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:45am

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blackadder wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:37am:

FRED. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:46am:

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You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his paty survives.

Dont bite the hand that feeds you!

FFS HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO GET ABBOTT INTO THIS YOU MORON Angry

It's the way of morons Fred.

When vegetables very important AA batteries go flat she blames Abbott.

A hint vegetable. Buy four AA rechargeable and you will always have a spare set. Make sure you get the polarity right otherwise you will be going instead of......

So you agree then. Yes under REAL journalistic scrutiny Abbott and co would crumble.

I agree with Fred numnuts. You are a moron.

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Reply #13 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:46am

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blackadder wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:37am:

FRED. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:46am:

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You should be very thankful blackadder for dopey journalism. It's the only way Abbott & his paty survives.

Dont bite the hand that feeds you!

FFS HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO GET ABBOTT INTO THIS YOU MORON Angry

It's the way of morons Fred.

When vegetables very important AA batteries go flat she blames Abbott.

A hint vegetable. Buy four AA rechargeable and you will always have a spare set. Make sure you get the polarity right otherwise you will be going instead of......

So you agree then. Yes under REAL journalistic scrutiny Abbott and co would crumble.

FFS HERE IT GOES AGAIN Grin

MORON

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Reply #14 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:49am

Maybe you both should demand better journalism.

There is a link on crikey asking for the ABC to do better;

wait, Ill be back , with it.

...in the meantime some light reading

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3750156.html?WT.svl=theDrum

29 December 2011

The Bible deserves a place in the national curriculum

Kevin Donnelly

There's no doubt that religious sceptics want to take Christ out of Christmas. Primary schools ban nativity scenes and Christmas carols, and secular cards are now de rigueur instead of those with religious themes and icons.

Read the daily newspapers, listen to the radio or watch TV and one could be excused for thinking that the sole purpose of one of Christianity's holiest events, the birth of Christ, is to eat, drink and spend as much as possible on gifts and presents for family and friends.

Additional evidence that religious sceptics are seeking to undermine Christianity and the debt we owe to the nation's Judeo/Christian heritage is found in the fact that Christianity rarely rates a mention in the proposed national history curriculum and, when it is, it is simply described as one of the world's religions along side Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.

The situation in Australia is unlike England where prime minister David Cameron and the education secretary Michael Gove argue that England is fundamentally a Christian nation and that every student, regardless of the type of school attended, must be familiar with the Bible.

Just before Christmas, Michael Gove announced a plan to send every school in England a copy of the King James Bible on the basis that the Bible is of, "major cultural and historical significance" and "one of the keystones of our shared culture".

Prime minister Cameron argues in a similar vein when he states,

First, the King James Bible has bequeathed a body of language that permeates every aspect of our culture and heritage. Second, just as our language and culture is steeped in the Bible, so too is our politics. Third, we are a Christian country.

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