The pond initially paid no attention to the lizard tweet …
After all, the reptiles have been banging on for weeks about Liddell and dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and Alinta and agl, and the pond didn't bother to follow that "nope" link to a pdf of an ASX and Media release by agl, here (direct link to download)…
But that figure of $1.2 billion did sound impressive, so eventually the pond toddled off to have a read …
Yes there was that bizarre figure again, right in the first sentence, "a $1.2 billion bid", but when you began to read the small print, it wasn't really an offer of $1.2 billion at all.
At best you could say that simplistic Simon had done a painful exaggeration, a wilful distortion, a singular misappropriation of the truth …
It made it all the more comical to note that the reptiles had gloated over Fairfax …
The Fairfax Monash errors were doozies, but what of a newspaper that mentions an offer of $1.2 billion, and then keeps running with it and making hay, and uses it as an excuse for further speculation, including Josh, apparently welcoming an apparent $1.2 billion bid?
Surprisingly the reptiles left this steaming pile of tosh up in the digital world, but eventually they felt compelled to run an update from AAP …
Hmm, whither the $1.2 billion?
Waiter, glasses please, so the pond can read the figure mentioned in the opening line ...
Actually, if the pond might be so bold, The Australian didn't report.
The Australian, courtesy of simplistic Simon, took part in a bit of shameless lobbying, grotesque exaggeration, and backfiring dissembling, enough to break the heart of dinkum clean Oz coal lovers, oi, oi, oi, around the land …
Sure enough this day, the reptiles came to the party with another story, this time jibber jabbering about a certain coolness in the cyclone burners …
… as if an offer being reduced from $1.2 billion to $250 million might have some sort of cooling effect.
Now if you click on that Graudian link from earlier times, it's easy enough to see how the reptiles might have saved themselves some pain, because this was the headline …
Previous reports "had speculated" - well that's putting a kind gloss on wilful exaggeration and special pleading for Alinta …
The reptiles are now so saturated in ideology - to the point of theological fervour - and a love of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, that they slobber at the bit at the merest mention of Liddell's salvation, but in such a way that they do their cause no good at all … since even the pond can recognise that there's a significant discount between $1.2 billion and $250 million, almost matching Sir John Monash's ability to make phantom speeches …
What a feeble, pathetic attempt to hold agl's feet to the coal burner's flames ...
Meanwhile, Rowe was attending to the real game in town, a show which had forced even the Major Mitchell himself to recant … as always, with more Rowe here …
Is Simple Simon related to Marius from the ABC? Do journalists have a code of ethics for truthful reporting?
ReplyDeleteYes they do have a code of ethics - they just choose to ignore it. I was going to say they only worry where the content is clearly defamatory, however, this afternoon's post regarding Messrs Jones and Cater indicates they don't even worry about that.
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