Oh well we already knew this but........
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Holy shit.
They are basically saying they are no longer a news organisation, they are an entertainment organisation. Much like Woman's Monthly and No Idea, with their stories of every member of the royal family divorcing, Megan being mean to Kate, and celebrities who are leading shittier lives that Ms Average Suburban. Which makes it about two steps from News of the World and American supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.
The race to the bottom continues. Fucking Murdoch.
They are basically saying they are no longer a news organisation, they are an entertainment organisation. Much like Woman's Monthly and No Idea, with their stories of every member of the royal family divorcing, Megan being mean to Kate, and celebrities who are leading shittier lives that Ms Average Suburban. Which makes it about two steps from News of the World and American supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.
The race to the bottom continues. Fucking Murdoch.
OK, granted, I don't know anything about the Herald Sun or how they operate, but this is just some sort of photoshopped internet joke, right?
I tried using various search terms within the image, and the "article" does not seem to appear anywhere on their website, nor does it appear to have been picked up or commented on by any other reputable news source.
Not trying to defend them in general (again, I know nothing about them), but this does not appear to be anything they actually said.
Are you saying that you actually personally captured this screenshot from http://www.heraldsun.com.au ? That would be rather big news if true. I have done some more searching around on this since my last post, and the only places I can really find reference to this are on Twitter and Reddit... and in both places the consensus seems to be that it is fake/someone else's work of satire. And no one who has shared this screenshot has ever once included a link back to the original source, at least that I have seen.
(Of course, if by "pinched the screengrab", you mean you copied it from Twitter or someplace, then that's different, but doesn't really prove anything.)
If a major newspaper actually publicly admitted they basically write fiction, you'd think that would be immediately picked up on and shouted to the rafters by their competitors. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
It was off twitter so I took it face value but it's not the first time a Murdoch news outlet has done this they use this same excuse for Fox News. It's listed in the USA as entertainment
though it wouldn't actually come as a surprise to many.
the herald sun (aka the hun) and Sydney's daily telegraph (the torygraph) are both owned by rupert murdoch and long on exaggeration and spin very short of actual facts and the truth.
Sadly there isn't much competition, 75% of the newspapers in Australia are owned by murdoch. Tasmanian, South Australia and Queensland only have one major daily paper and that's the murdoch one.
I'm sure if nothing else such an admission from the paper would have made it to MediaWatch (www.abc.net.au/mediawatch) but nothing there.
think it's more likely the post above has fallen for a photoshop job.
I always preferred the idea that the Daily Telegraph was merged with the Sydney Daily Mirror, making the Daily Terror.
Of course it's satire, why would anyone believe the Herald Sun would post that? Come on people !
As to the whole security guard debacle.. I know 2 people who were security guards for these quarantine hotels. The whole thing was a shambles, there were not enough masks available, instructions as to protocol depended on who was giving them. Some of the guests would make HUGE stinks about needing to leave their room for smokes or whatever and would get to go out more than they should have. One guest escaped and ran through the whole hotel.
Most security people are casual workers who work shifts at multiple sites. They were not told not to do this for these quarantine jobs. It's a very lax job, in fact in shopping centers you can't even apprehend someone who steals something as the shopping center forbids this. Security guards exist for insurance purposes and other than maintaining first aid qualifications which is often useful they are there to call the police and tell people where the nearest toilet is.
The people I know in the security industry all said "this will be a disaster". The hotels needed disciplined, highly trained personnel. Instead they got a bunch of blokes, mixed messages about protocol, confusion as to who was in charge and a lack of supplies.
As to the whole security guard debacle.. I know 2 people who were security guards for these quarantine hotels. The whole thing was a shambles, there were not enough masks available, instructions as to protocol depended on who was giving them. Some of the guests would make HUGE stinks about needing to leave their room for smokes or whatever and would get to go out more than they should have. One guest escaped and ran through the whole hotel.
Most security people are casual workers who work shifts at multiple sites. They were not told not to do this for these quarantine jobs. It's a very lax job, in fact in shopping centers you can't even apprehend someone who steals something as the shopping center forbids this. Security guards exist for insurance purposes and other than maintaining first aid qualifications which is often useful they are there to call the police and tell people where the nearest toilet is.
The people I know in the security industry all said "this will be a disaster". The hotels needed disciplined, highly trained personnel. Instead they got a bunch of blokes, mixed messages about protocol, confusion as to who was in charge and a lack of supplies.
Tasmania’s Premier has an Tassie’s borders will be closed until 1 December. In an effort to help our tourism industry vouchers will be available for Tasmanians to holiday within Tasmania so long as they holiday out of their municipalities. $100 vouchers off hotel accommodation and $50 vouchers for tourist attractions.
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How long are the vouchers good for LOL
I have no idea. They are still figuring out exactly how everything is to going work. However the have said that the hotel vouchers will only be for weekdays but the vouchers for the attractions will be able to be used seven days a week.
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^ So it doesn't exist, but paid actors somehow manage to live there.
Good to see that the flat earthers are maintaining their usual high standards of logical thought.
Good to see that the flat earthers are maintaining their usual high standards of logical thought.
Well, I visited this tourist concoction "New Zealand" this year in February. Beautiful country, I have to admit.
But I still can't really prove they didn't just fly me to some remote corner of my home continent (Europe) I hadn't visited yet by some sly detour.
The summer vs. winter part is a bit harder to explain though -- how did they fake such long days?
But I still can't really prove they didn't just fly me to some remote corner of my home continent (Europe) I hadn't visited yet by some sly detour.
The summer vs. winter part is a bit harder to explain though -- how did they fake such long days?
As I posted elsewhere I have no power until at least September 3rd and have to boil my water. This on top of stage 4 restrictions where we can't travel farther than 5km is horrible.
omg what a lunatic, just read some of it.
I miss the smart days, the Keating days, now those were REAL insults. Now we just got trash talk and conspiracies.
I miss the smart days, the Keating days, now those were REAL insults. Now we just got trash talk and conspiracies.
