#lenore taylor

[twitterexile]

Flung pickle token: artist asks $10,000 for McDonald’s burger ingredient

New Zealanders’ verdicts divided between ‘genius’ and ‘moronic’ as Auckland gallery exhibits fermented vegetable on ceiling

[0ldmancopper]

Foreign Reporter Shocked By Trump's 'Alarming Incoherence' On Border Wall Tour

The Australian journalist wondered if cleaning up Trump's rambling speech does the public a disservice.

[mtr-amg]

In writing about this not-especially-important or unusual press conference I’ve run into what US reporters must encounter every day. I’ve edited skittering, half-finished sentences to present them in some kind of consequential order and repeated remarks that made little sense. In most circumstances, presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from the president of the United States made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disservice. I’ve read so many stories about his bluster and boasting and ill-founded attacks, I’ve listened to speeches and hours of analysis, and yet I was still taken back by just how disjointed and meandering the unedited president could sound. Here he was trying to land the message that he had delivered at least something towards one of his biggest campaign promises and sounding like a construction manager with some long-winded and badly improvised sales lines. I’d understood the dilemma of normalising Trump’s ideas and policies – the racism, misogyny and demonisation of the free press. But watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence.

As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor | Opinion | The Guardian

[lightwxrker]

Media Circus / S01E08 / Teamwork

[lightwxrker]

I'm pretty sure all three of these expressions just sum up the Pundemonium game

[popthirdworld]

'Yes, Tony Abbott has stopped the boats. But the cost is catastrophic.'

'There wasn’t a voiceover at the end of the election ads [promising to stop the boats], low and quickly spoken like the health side-effect warnings at the end of pharmaceutical adverts, saying: “May require 3,000 people to lose their minds while waiting for years in tropical prisons, may require stretching to breaking point Australia’s compliance with international law, may require sending people back to possible persecution, may involve ridiculous attempt to assess asylum claims with four questions via video conference on the high seas, may require riding roughshod over the high court and the parliament, may require refusing to answer any legitimate question put to the minister by the press, may require treating the voting public like imbeciles.”There was no asterisk in the print advertisements directing voters to that kind of fine print.'

- Lenore Taylor

The whole article is incredible.

[hollyhutchinson-blog]

"I'm not at liberty to tell you" (because I have made a huge mistake and don't want to admit it)

The Australian Guardian is now in its first month of production, and they recently featured an interview with the opposition spokesperson for foreign affairs, Julie Bishop. 

Political Editor Lenore Taylor interviewed Bishop in May and talked to her about Tony Abbott's plan to turn back asylum seeker boats is the Coalition is voted in this September. Taylor had spotted something problematic about the Coalitions asylum seeker policy: Indonesia has also stated publicly that they won't take the boats back is they return, meaning that the boats will either attempt to return to Australia, or remain in limbo in the seas between Indonesia and Australia.  

But despite Indonesia's official line, Julie Bishop told Taylor that Indonesia would indeed take back the boats, even though they were publicly stating otherwise. 

But then this month, the Indonesian Prime Minister confirmed that Indonesia will not be accepting boats that are towed back to Indonesian shores. Last week the Indonesian Ambassador reiterated this, saying that he didn't know why Australian politicians were still discussing it as an option. 

Taylor contacted Bishop to remind her about Indonesia's position, and asked her if she still stood by her statements, and Bishop said that she did. 

So the following morning, the headline that The Guardian went with was 'Indonesia has agreed to corroborate in turning back boats'. 

Bishop immediately slammed the Guardian, accused them of misrepresenting her, an hour after the headline was live, Bishop sent out a media statement, saying that she had been selectively quoted, and that Lenore Taylor had been repeatedly been told that the Coalition wasn't in a position to negotiate with Indonesia as the opposition

Shortly before Bishop released her media statement, The Guardian changed their headline to 'Indonesia would co-operate with coalition on boats, according to Bishop'. 

But the thrust of it all is that the Guardian stood by their story. If the coalition are unhappy with the story, It's possible that the opposition was just unhappy with facts Indonesia has said repeatedly that they will not accept returned boats, and yet when Taylor asked Bishop why the coalition continued to contradict the Indonesia Government, Bishop responded with 'I'm not at liberty to tell you.' 

The facts of the story in The Guardian were true, and it's good to see that they stood by the facts, and by the facts of that interview that Lenore Taylor did. 

[drag0nista]

No Crap App: w/b 27 May 2013

Election

Lenore Taylor: Australian politicians limber up for post truth election

Simon Jackman: Opinion polls tells us Labor can’t win

Coalition

Tony Walker [$]: No easy choices for Abbott as battlelines drawn

Ross Gittins: Naivety to put hope in new broom

View Post