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Hun shuns stablemate, misquotes Howard

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 8:55 am

The Editor

Categories: Media, Politics

Tags: DailyTelegraph, HeraldSun, JeffKennett, JohnHoward

There’s been a whole lotta hubbub about the Daily Telegraph’s abandoned baby headline yesterday: “How Could She”. Beyond Blue spokesperson Jeff Kennett slammed the tabloid for such sensationalist and uninformed stupidity while The Man Of Steel got in on the action pretty quick to give it his big ol’ Rodent tick of approval, saying: “In defence of the Tele, that’s what most people say. I feel for the mother, I feel for the baby, I feel for the woman’s family, but fair go to the Tele — after all, that is the natural reaction. How could you abandon a little baby?”

I took a look at the Daily Telegraph’s sister newspaper, the Herald Sun, at work this morning and it is curious to note how keen the Hun is to distance itself from its stablemate’s stance. In its front page story the paper doesn’t mention the Tele’s headline at all, simply noting that Kennett and Howard “locked horns” over “criticism of the mother.” Even Howard’s tick-of-approval comment was twice doctored to remove any mention of the Tele:

Above headline
“But, fair go… How could you abandon a little baby?”

In story
“I feel for the mother, I feel for the baby, I feel for the woman’s family, but, fair go . . . that is the natural reaction,” [Howard] said. “How could you abandon a little baby?”

The Herald Sun, fearless as always: won’t agree with the Tele’s views but won’t criticise them either.

6 Comments

The Happy Revolutionary (Wednesday 16 May 2007, 10:05 am) #

You know you’ve gone too far down the cheap and nasty rightard sensationalist road when even Kennett thinks you’re a reactionary tosser!

And it seems that everybody who wants to make some ignorant or bigoted remark about everything just attributes their views to ‘natural reaction’ or ‘instinct’, or, in the case of Howard - ‘that’s what most people think’.
The Happy Revolutionary (Wednesday 16 May 2007, 10:15 am) #

Sightly off topic, but related to the Hun’s Howard coverage: in yesterday’s paper, the poll results were buried somewhere obscure, if they were even in there at all, whilst plenty of space was dedicated to how Gillard will bring down the construction industry as we know it.
And there was a story about a boy who’d been bullied at school and, hey presto! Howard pops up on the very same page, with the Hun providing him with a free ad for his latest bullying policy. It almost makes me think the news is biased.
Mikey (Wednesday 16 May 2007, 10:33 pm) #

Yes it’s breathtaking isn’t it? But this is a man who publically backs Alan Jones as a decent honourable Australian despite the shock jocks near audible dog whistle for a race war in Sydney.

The man’s an odious tool. His time is coming.
Bruce (Thursday 17 May 2007, 12:34 am) #

despite the shock jocks near audible dog whistle for a race war in Sydney.

You may want to get your ears tested Mikey. It was more like a bull-horn blasted battle cry.
Christine Keeler (Thursday 17 May 2007, 9:56 pm) #

But who was the callous deranged parent who left that lovely little baby WorkChoices abandoned on the tip today?
Mikey (Thursday 17 May 2007, 9:58 pm) #

Ahahahaha

That made me laugh and laugh!

Bringing it back on topic. Check out the wiki on Baby Hatches. V interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch