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POLITICAL NOT SPIRITUAL
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, is no doubt a good hearted, kind and well meaning man. One can even feel sorry for him that it has fallen to his lot to do the well nigh impossible job of trying to hold together an increasingly fractious Anglican communion. The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby However, it is in his main…
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A German journalist really called Greta Thunberg and her JEWISH Fridays for future colleagues who called for protection of Palestinian civilians (specifically, civillians) spreaders of "antisemitic hatespeech and propaganda", "young, dumb and impressionable" and "caught up in their hubris of youth while crossing hard lines" and that they need to "step down as a minimum". Literally she called Jews antisemites. And the report was presented biased towards the journalist's pov.
With conservatives chiming in to the rhythm of the same bell, it's so transparent that this outrage aimed at climate activists is supposed to tear down climate activism too. This isn't about antisemitism, it's about silencing activists.
I studied English in college, so I often got asked if I wanted to be a journalist. My response to that question was always somewhat controversial: "There's no such thing as ethical journalism." I did want to go into journalism once, and I took an introductory class, and the first day of the class was spent going over the SPJ Code of Ethics, and then there was one class on writing style and citations, and every other class was a workshop on ways to get around the SPJ Code of Ethics -- how to get people who don't want to talk to give interviews, how to trick people into agreeing to go on the record even when it's dangerous for them, how to downplay inconvenient facts as unimportant, there was even one class on how to bribe police officers without technically bribing them. (And that's not even getting into "impartiality," which is impossible: even just deciding which facts are worthy of inclusion and which aren't is making a value judgment.)
"There's no such thing as ethical journalism," arose less from an opinion on all reporters and journalists and more from an understanding that a journalist who went into the business wanting to do some good would be suppressed, because the facts don't usually line up with anyone's politics entirely, so they would be forced to either drop their standards and report along party lines or quit.
People often got offended when I said that, but maybe a few of them have seen what's going down with the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and seen that the media is absolutely pushing an agenda -- they said the people he shot were black! -- and maybe realized where I was coming from. I can only hope.
Among the major news networks today Fox News is the closest to neutral in its reporting, but even they air some BS (and sometimes I think they lean a little farther right than is accurate, out of a misguided need to balance the scales a bit).
In an era that's so heavily politicized, there is just no way to ethically report on controversy. I used to say you had to filter every news story for facts vs. opinions, but now I see that you can't even take the facts at face value (and I can't bring myself to honestly believe that you used to be able to, either). The conscientious citizen can't trust news media. They must be their own reporters. They must seek out first person sources, find and watch unedited videos, and talk to people who were actually there. And if they can't do that, or don't want to, then they should reserve judgment. Nobody's helped by everyone and their mother having an uninformed but strongly held opinion.
You're right and you should say it.
The headline could have said “Man violently attacks coworker, then twice attacks his girlfriend including trying to strangle her then attacks gfs teen daughter“. But gotta make it sound like a teen girl provoked a grown man into attacking her.
Barker previously had convictions for battery as a juvenile
A carpenter has been jailed for stamping on the head of his partner’s teenage daughter after she branded him a “manipulative cuckoo”.
Alexander Barker, 34, flew into a rage and launched the savage attack on university student Georgia Hobbis after she sarcastically told him: “Bye babes, loves you.”
A court heard the victim had made a string of “snide remarks” and had asked Barker “Are you retarded?” when he told her she had an attitude problem.
Barker then lost his temper, ran at her and kicked her to the stomach - knocking her to the ground in her mother’s home in April last year.
As she curled up in a ball, Barker stamped on her head four or five times, leaving her with a gaping wound to her head which bled heavily and needed seven stitches.
Weeks earlier, Barker had launched a similar attack on a colleague in a row about not being paid money for work he had done.
Barker approached fellow carpenter Martin Sheldon as he arrived at a property they had been working on in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on 9 March.
He pushed Mr Sheldon to the ground and stamped on his head and body while repeatedly shouting: “I want my money.”
Mr Sheldon suffered a fractured cheekbone, swelling to his forehead and soft tissue injuries to his shoulder and elbow.
While on bail for that attack he also twice assaulted his partner Deborah Berry, who he had been in a relationship with since 2019, and on one occasion strangled her.
Barker, of Deansway, Warwick, went on to plead guilty to two assaults as well as inflicting grievous bodily harm and wounding.
He was jailed for a total of four years and eight months at Warwick Crown Court on Friday 12 November.
Sentencing, Judge Peter Cooke said: “You clearly have an entrenched inability to control your temper when things get on top of you in a domestic or work context.
“On the 9th of March you launched an unprovoked attack on Martin Sheldon, a carpenter working on the same site as you, with kicks and stamps which left him with a facial fracture.
“Sadly matters didn’t end there. Just weeks after you had been bailed you flew into a rage and kicked a door so savagely it flew off its hinges and knocked Deborah full in the face, knocking her out.
“It was an ill-tempered and thoroughly reckless act.
“Only ten days later you assaulted Deborah again. This was a much more worrying episode.
“It was not reckless, but quite deliberate and involved 30 seconds of manualstrangulation.”
The judge said the final attack arose after Ms Hobbis had come to think of Barker as “a manipulative cuckoo,” and had greeted him “with a series of snide remarks.”
He added: “You are quite incapable of shrugging off such a slight.
“You completely lost control and launched a savage attack on that young woman, knocking her to the floor and kicking or stamping on her.
“This time you were not attacking another able-bodied man.
“It was a 33-year-old kick boxer attacking an 18 or 19-year-old girl.”
Prosecutor Sophie Murray told the court how Barker also carried out the two attacks on Ms Berry during a row last April.
During the argument, when Barker said he was going to leave, she went into the bedroom to gather his belongings.
Miss Murray said: “While she was doing so, Barker kicked the door open with such force that it came off its hinges, causing it to strike her to the head, and she was knocked unconscious.”
Ms Hobbis found her mother unconscious and bleeding from her nose and head, as Barker paced around saying: “I said I would never be like my dad.”
About two weeks later another argument broke out after Ms Berry had asked him to make up with her daughter, which caused him to lose his temper.
Ms Murray said: “He shouted in her face before grabbing her around the throat with one hand and he squeezed hard for around 30 seconds before leaving in his van.”
Three weeks later Ms Hobbis arrived at the house, and when she did not give Barker a warm greeting, he complained that she had “an attitude problem.”
He was further anger when Ms Hobbis responded: “Why would I be nice to you, are you retarded? Why would I be nice to someone who beats up my mum?”
He then attacked her when she sarcastically added “Bye babes, loves you” as he went to leave the house.
When he was arrested, Barker claimed it was Ms Hobbis who had attacked him and that she must have hit her head when he got her off by pulling her to the floor.
Ms Murray added that Barker had previous convictions for battery as a juvenile, assault in 2008 and affray in 2013.
Ian Speed, defending, said: “He was frustrated he was that he had not been paid – no excuse.
“And frustrated he was with the relationship, but that is also no excuse.”
Mr Speed said that after the first incident he would have submitted Barker needed anger management, but added: “He knows he’s going to remain in custody now.”
It’s so wild to me that journalists from channel 10 are doing more heavy lifting calling out and holding the LNP Government responsible than the ABC.
Ita Buttrose needs to get sent packing. The ABC used to be at the forefront of investigative reporting holding all politicians accountable. Now increasingly they tow the LNP line.
It’s heart breaking.
As the Prince puts pen to paper to tell the “definitive” version of his life story, he also holds significant power—and responsibility—over
"The Prince who has spoken often about the need for truthful reporting, will now have to make decisions about how he presents his facts, and which facts he chooses to present, in what is gearing up to be one of the most talked about autobiographies ever."
