Craig Thomson – The Interview The MSM Couldn’t or Wouldn’t Do !!!!!!!!!!

 Independents, Media, Polling, The Labor Party  No Responses »
Jan 302013
 

 

craig thomson interviewCraig Thomson speaks exclusively to @GenGusface about his achievements in the seat of Dobell (NSW) and on whether he’ll run again in the next Federal Election.

The 20 minute podcast touches on many subjects, including the Opposition’s “tainted vote” attack on Thomson, and why this was an attempt to effectively remove the democratic process of allowing him to vote in Parliament on behalf of Dobell.

Other topics raised include the trial by media which endured throughout 2012, and its effect on Thomson personally, and what the motivation within some elements of MSM (mainstream media) were to push the story. Ultimately did the MSM cross moralistic, journalistic, and decency lines?

Thomson’s time at the HSU is touched upon and how it’s been portraid in the media, especially on how anyone working at the HSU was grouped together without looking at the issues being played out by different factions. He is asked whether he would have done things differently if he had his time over again at the HSU.

Finally Thomson discusses the possibility of legal redress and gives a positive message to Australian (and Dobell) voters.

*This sound recording is copyright Craig Thomson – please do not download*

These were the Questions asked:

1.  List your top 3 achievements for Dobel and the central coast?

2. Are you planning to run in the 2013 federal election?

3. Speaking of running,are you going to get tony abbott and chris pyne to bolt like rabbits again in parliament, and were you surprised they ran like scaredy cats?

4. Did you preplan to cross the floor on that day?

5. Speaking of preplanned- how do you feel about the media witchtrial you have endured for years?

6.  What has been the worst aspect of the continued lies and smears by the media? any one particular incident you feel displays where they have crossed the line?

7.  In your words how would you describe your time as Secretary of the HSU, and how has this been misrepresented by the media?

8. What legal redress will you seek for the smears and slander propogated by the media, over your role in the HSU?

9. What would like to say to the people of Australia?

When David Met Goliath – An AFV EXCLUSIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!

 Independents, Media, Polling, Society, The Labor Party  2 Responses »
Oct 242012
 

Today there was a raid on the Independent Member for Dobell Craig Thomson of his house and Electorate Office in relation to the ongoing investigation into the HSU. Interestingly there was a large media pack who were there to record the police conducting the raid – which is interesting as the Police are very secretive in the timing of these raids so as not to tip off the persons of interest and thus allow them to destroy vital evidence etc.

Gusface was so upset by how the media were made aware and whether they were tipped off by persons either in the NSW Police or by the NSW Attorney-General that he Confronted the media and said the following:

Who forewarned them- why they were here and kept asking who told em? One member from the ABC squeaked he was rung at 8am. In addition, another member of the media pack started to try and derail him also asked em why they were ruining journalism- cowardly pack of bullies.

A couple of the Journalists present were taken aback by the spectacle and were seen frantically making some phone calls to their offices, while another person attempted to follow him – More information can be found on his Twitter Timeline:

https://twitter.com/GenGusface

Watch this space – there is a lot MOAR to come:

 

Media Scum

 

 The Assembled Media

 

 

Meanwhile Peter Wicks at Wixxyleaks has also been covering this sorry saga.

http://wixxyleaks.com/2012/10/24/every-breath-you-take/

Update:

Here is the Sunrise story where they crossed live to Thomsoms’ home and showed footage of the police raiding the home – Considering that it takes a long time to set up a live cross and Seven were there BEFORE the police arrived it begs the question – Were Seven tipped off about the raid ?

I bet you were all wondering how Robert Ovadia just happened to be outside Thommo’s house and managed to get footage of the police raiding the home – especially as a)N The operation was “secret”, and more importantly b: Bateau Bay is not an area which can provide proper broadcast quality pictures.

As you may or may not be aware the media, in particular ABC News 24 nearly always manage to have “Technical Difficulties” when covering live crosses involving the PM and other Govt Ministers, while those involving the Opposition are almost always of perfect broadcast Quality. THis is because TV Stations utulise mobile vans with a small microwave link to send the signal back to the station, or at worst use 4G Wireless Broadband.

Now, these links take some time to set up as it involves raising the boom and sending  test tones and colour bars while the engineers at the studio check to see if the picture and sound are usable, as this video from the US illustrates.

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I have since been told that a local freelance contractor who provides outside broadcast facilites was booked 4 days ago to attend Thommo’s address, which one can only assume that Ch 7 were briefed by persons unknown about the impending raid.

This is a most unsettling situation and a possible abuse of legal process.

There is MOAR to come !!!!!!!!!!

 Update – 5.46pm WST 25.10.12:

Remember how there was a 2GB Microphone conveniently at the scene of the Police Raid  ? We now have confirmation that it belonged to 2GB’s resident Police Reporter who was there to hold it for former Taxi Driver and alleged Child Basher Mr.Ray Hadley..

 

Watch this space for MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Political Death by a 1000 Cuts- the slow eviscerating of Tony the Rabbit – the political assasination of Tony Abbott, by the not so cowardly Malcolm Turnbull

 Independents, Media, Other Parties, Polling, Society, The Greens  12 Responses »
Sep 132012
 

First there was this:

Then there was this:

Was this a new thing  about Tony’s Media Behaviour  ? Fuck No !!!!!!!

Remember This ?

Well as Tony said to Mark at the time-

 

SHIT HAPPENS !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Gusface Sez

 Independents, Media, Other Parties, Polling, Society, The Greens, The Labor Party, Uncategorized  197 Responses »
May 102012
 

Gusface has been busy tackling the Anti Govt Media to dispel the Myths regarding various Govt Issues.

He has battled the Gatekeepers of #OhMike and Nightlife with Tony Delroy to spread the word – often with derision and attack from those who wish to spread the Liberal Line.

This post will be devoted to such calls.

Here he is speaking to John Cleary on ABC Local Radio on Sunday May 7th:

https://www.box.com/s/49cc3889651e8559071e

Here he is on #ohmike:

#ohmike

10th July 2011

https://www.box.com/s/43678e35b39b6121039e

And an earlier appearance on Tony Delroy’s Nightlife.

http://afrankview.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gus.mp3

And here is Gus’ latest appearance on Delroy from earlier this morning, where he attempts to dispel the media lies regarding Foriegn Aid and Changes to the Parenting Allowance.

https://www.box.com/s/24f1fa2eb2f72f692325

 

Also here is the famous call where Gus manages to upset Dennis Shanahan of The Australian about how Newspoll is compiled:

 

https://www.box.com/s/7cfa5ffed5cf8a7939f1

 

Another Appearance on Delroy by Gus – this time putting Delroy on the Spot re the Cow statement by Graeme Morris

 

 

 

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AUSTRALIAN MEDIA

 Independents, Media, Other Parties, Polling, Society, The Greens, The Labor Party  1 Response »
Feb 162012
 

The Following was posted by Jenauthor over on Pollbludger:

An open letter to the Australian Political Press Gallery:

Credibility and respect comes from doing a good job right, and with integrity. You are the conduit between our members of parliament and the people who ELECTED them.

As a conduit it is encumbent upon you to report with impartiality and not be seduced to favour the interests of sections of the community that have the resources to drive the narrative for their own benefit. That is the job of advertisers, not journalists or editors.

This farcical encouragement of politicians’ game-playing, the reporting of their untruths without prior research, and the general dumbing down of the electorates’ information is a serious breach of the role you are supposed to fulfill.

Alternately, the deliberate ignoring of, or twisting of, any favourable news shows willful negligence and deliberate partisanship.

You answer my contentions with ‘you get what you ask for’ but I beg to differ. You have the power to influence large numbers of the public. A person buying the newspaper for its sport coverage is NOT automatically endorsing of that paper’s current affairs coverage. Indeed, by collating a newspaper into a single whole, a news organisation prevents its audience from such discernment.

Many Australians are fleeing to online media and ‘new’ media out of dissatisfaction. If you want to have ANY hope of keeping you jobs in the long term, it might be time to be a bit more honest with yourselves and the public who SHOULD have the confidence to rely on your coverage.

Twelve years of a Howard govt. which slowly but surely pushed every aspect of this country toward the ‘right’ has developed an acceptance of right-wing thinking as being the norm. This is now perceived as ‘middle ground’. If you cannot step back and see how partial you have become, then the occupation of journalist in this country is lost. Even the former bastion of impartiality, the ABC has succumbed to unresearched tabloidism.

If this self assessment and correction cannot be done, then we as a nation seriously need to think about renaming our publication/programs and barring them from using the term “News” at all. As it stands, today’s publications and broadcasts really need to be labelled “opinion”.

The Open Croaked Crikey Edition AGAIN 13.2 2012

 Independents, Media, Other Parties, Polling, The Greens, The Labor Party  11 Responses »
Feb 132012
 

Bilbo praying for a Job at News Ltd - his Natural Habitat.

 

Well Well Well – Crikey is Croaked AGAIN !!!!!!!!

But never fear A Frankview is here for Intelligent Political Blogging.

But Hey Karma is a Bitch for the Manchild who is furiously praying for Relevance as he presides over a dodgy website with the reputation equal with his idols in the Liberal Party.

 

 

Businesses are doing it tough in WA’s two-speed economy – A Post by WA Labor Leader Eric Ripper

 Media, Polling, Society, The Labor Party  5 Responses »
Jan 132012
 

While certain perople in the Party are trying to knfe him – all based from the latest Newspoll Bootstrap – WA Labor Leader Eric Ripper wrote the following Note on his Facebook page:

Take a look at this graph:

What it shows is a huge change in the number of businesses becoming insolvent (or, in other words, going bankrupt) in Western Australia between the time when the previous Labor Government was in power and the last 3 years of the Barnett Government.

Under Labor, the number of business insolvencies gradually fell but soon after the Barnett Government took power, insolvencies rose steeply and are continuing to go up. Some of this initial increase could be related to the 2008 global financial crisis, but 3 years later, and with WA’s economy booming again, insolvencies are still going up.

What does this prove?

First, that it’s tough in the two-speed WA economy for business and especially small business. Secondly that while the resources industry is experiencing a huge boom, other industries are finding their backs against the wall.

The Barnett Government have made no real effort to arrest this trend. It has opposed legislation to protect franchisees, opposed Labor’s proposed legislation for more local jobs from the big resources projects and failed hopelessly to ensure new trainees are entering the workforce.

The Liberals like to tell us they are the friends of small business, this graph shows they are closer to their worst nightmare.

The Barnett Government must act to support small business and prevent WA’s economy from becoming even more divided between the winners in the resources sector and everyone else.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/eric-ripper/businesses-are-doing-it-tough-in-was-two-speed-economy/228404857239808

 

The Dawn Patrol Report: The forthcoming War with the #MSM for the Regime Change

 Media, Polling, Uncategorized  50 Responses »
Dec 292011
 

First, the weather here at Bradfield is WGAF. Fuming.

You can see it coming, a day before the latest Newspoll Quarterly Trend analysis came this editorial in the Daily Terror:

Everyone paying Gillard power bill – The Daily Telegraph December 28, 2011 12:00AM – DEMOCRACY can be a messy business, never more so than when decisions fall short of being clear-cut.That’s when compromises and trade-offs must be made.

Australia has been locked in an extended compromise since the too-close-to-call 2010 federal election, which was eventually decided Labor’s way when Greens and independents backed the return of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government. Few need reminding of the policy challenges that resulted. The widely-opposed carbon tax, clearly rejected by Gillard during the 2010 campaign, is now signed into legislation due to Greens bargaining.

The move cost Gillard considerable credibility and may yet play a significant role in the next federal election, officially due in 2013. But other costs are also involved.

Almost $15 billion in taxpayer funds have been spent by Labor on electorates and issues associated with the independents and Greens. This is an extraordinary amount, particularly considering the fact that our federal budget is struggling to maintain even a slender surplus. REAM MORE

And right on the cue, last night Ghost reported the latest quarter trend analysis:

GhostWhoVotes GhostWhoVotes – #Newspoll Oct-Dec Quarterly 2 Party Preferred: ALP 45 (+2) L/NP 55 (-2) #auspol

GhostWhoVotes GhostWhoVotes – #Newspoll Oct-Dec Quarterly Primary Votes: ALP 31 (+4) L/NP 46 (-2) GRN 12 (-1) #auspol

GhostWhoVotes GhostWhoVotes – #Newspoll Oct-Dec Quarterly Gillard: Approve 31 (+2) Disapprove 59 (-2) #auspol

GhostWhoVotes GhostWhoVotes – #Newspoll Oct-Dec Quarterly Abbott: Approve 34 (-4) Disapprove 56 (+4) #auspol

GhostWhoVotes GhostWhoVotes – #Newspoll Oct-Dec Quarterly Preferred PM: Gillard 39 (+2) Abbott 38 (-3) #auspol

In all categories, the trend is clear PM Gillard is making progress after a very difficult political year of 2011. Add to this the last of the year Morgan F2F poll of 1700 voters had 2PP of 50-50 based on last election preferences.

I am sure Ruddstoration is not far off and coming also. I am sure there are other similar  articles in The OO today. But I couldnt bother and I will leave that to the capable hand of fellow Dawn Patrollers like BK and others to report.

G’Day to ALL

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