The mysterious case of Sonia’s silent, talkative telly mates
Five minutes can be a long time in the outrage industry.
Take last night’s story from news.com.au, published at 11.09pm, about how Sonia Kruger’s “TV friends” weren’t commenting on her unfortunate views on Australian immigration policy.
The first of these “TV friends” mentioned was The Project’s Waleed Aly, who some journalists appear to believe has a duty to be a permanent spokesman on all issues relating to Islam. According to the article, he was “unwilling to offer his thoughts” apart from “briefly” addressing it on the show.
Five minutes later, at 11.14pm, there was another hot take, in a separate article. Apparently, Aly was willing to offer his thoughts after all. Indeed, he’d “waded into the debate”, sharing his point of view with viewers of his national prime time show several hours earlier.
The article then went on to quote virtually in full, over 11 paragraphs, Aly’s views. Deliciously, the two contradictory articles sat next to each other on the news.com.au home page for a few hours.
How the contradictory stories looked at 4.50am today
And then at about 7am the Waleed story vanished from the home page, leaving poor old Sonia once again isolated by her mean telly mates.
8.15am: The sotry about Aly speaking out vanishes from the home page
Dr Mumbo wonders whether the real issue news.com.au was unhappy about was Aly not wanting to speak to them.
Good on you, Sonia; a pox on Wally Ally, whatever his name is.
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The great “cover up” about Middle East Muslim immigration is beginning to unravel as the real truth becomes apparent to politicians, the media and the community. The inevitable “penny will drop” finally when the global aims of Middle East Islam are revealed and recognized and totally blocked for the future of Western nations. .
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Sorry Waleed, you don’t get to pick and choose who you reckon is racist and expect us to agree. Hanson….racist idiot. Kruger….just another racist idiot.
Just for the record, i’m more scared of being bitten by a redback on my dunny seat than any terrorist arsehole.
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Your point, Dr Mumbo, is a good one.
News is being quite selective on how they want to position this as is the rest of the media
The question I ask Sonia which no one seems to be asking is
By banning Muslims coming into this country, what problem is she looking to solve. It sounds like shes looking to reduce her fear.
Sorry to be glib but ,If that’s the case , she wants to feel less fearful, she simply needs to get out more.
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I wish we could close our borders to people like you.
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Good on you, Sonia. About time strong action was taken. Also the top Muslim in Australia has been very quiet about the atrocities.
Burners of our flag and other Muslims who obviously do not like Australia should be kicked out of our country. Legislation should be introduced so that this activity can be streamlined, without a series of appeals being dealt with.
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@Elbogrease
Islam is not a race, it’s a religion. How could she be racist?
A race is something you cannot change – for example being African-American, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Aboriginal. A religion is something you can change.
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What is the deal with the Murdoch agenda globally? Through his media, his film production, his books, the narrative does seem to be a pro white and wealthy agenda, which paints ‘brown people’ and anyone who isn’t Christian or Jewish as abnormal. It is a little confused though as he does seem to hate the establishment in sorts (the royal family), yet he is the establishment in a way… Is there any real insights to his real agenda and beliefs? Could Mumbrella map out the media landscape based on their agenda’s? Would advertisers decide to boycott certain publications if they deemed them to fear-monger? Do we know of any brands who will not advertise in the Murdoch stable due to the way they portray the world?
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In the very simplistic worldview of the media and our own industry, the world is divided into racists and non-racists, making any rational discussion impossible.
Ask yourselves, why the need to once again join the mob of intellectual cowards against anyone expressing politically incorrect opinions? It’s doesn’t stop until she’s lost her job, and you’ve bullied all of her friends from supporting her.
Sonia Kruger simply holds Muslims to the same standard as she would any Australian. You don’t, which makes you the only racist.
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Well I must say what a crime , poor Sonia said what she though and didn’t run with all the lefty groups trying to tell us what to say and think.
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I second interested to know’s point.
Would be great to see his interests mapped out – and think of the hits you’ll get from everywhere.
Win win.
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“Mumbrella, …. is a discussion of everything under Australia’s media and marketing umbrella” according to ‘about Mumbrella’.
This is what the article was about, how news.com.au chose to report the story, and what potentially motivated it to drop the Waleed story.
Disappointing that some forget this and feel the need to try and turn it into a forum to voice their own opinions, be they pro or anti Sonia/Waleed/muslims or whatever.
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The inevitable “penny will drop” finally when you realise the current hate campaign against Islam is from exactly the same play book used by Hitler against the Jews.
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This is a very standard News Corp tactic. If anyone refuses to talk to them or back up what their buddies are saying they risk getting slammed. When The Grand Mufti did not speak to them they panned him with the “Sees no problem, Hears no Concerns, Speaks no English” front cover of the Telegraph. Andrew Bolt does it all the time, railing on anyone who is not playing along with his personal racist agenda “Why are Greens not fighting the cult that kills gays?”
The outrage when somebody does not play along.
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No one is actually outraged by this other than Australian media outlets. They are the ones that drive “outrage” at anything remotely controversial. It’s ruining their product.
Shame, shame, shame, on you, the Australian media.
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