The Pro-LNP Corrupt Media Just Won't Let It Go And PRGuy17

Howdy dear availees...been another very, very long week since the last post on this 'ere blog, and just on 3 weeks since the Anthony Albanese led Labor Party won the May 21st Federal Election...(not that you'd know it with the way the Main Stream Media is carrying on-Ed)...well quite, and hence today's latest in a series of posts on the ways that the rankly pro-LNP corrupt MSM affects the public perception of reality...not gunna' go through it all again, just please avail y'allselves of the previous few posts, but I will again declare my disbelief and disgust that SKYNews is allowed a broadcasting license...(you mean that something so openly and massively Right Wing biased and untruthful and just generally unhinged is allowed to spew their wildly distorted bile into Aussie homes?-Ed)...yeah, that, that's exactly what I mean...(well Murdoch owns the LNP and SKYNews is his/their hobby horse of the Right Wing Anti-Truth Apocalypse-Ed)...spot on...  

Regular ABC watchers and/or Twitter users will be well aware that the ABC is continuing to platform multiple LNP stooges ahead of actual Labor government Ministers...(sure, with a definable imbalance, almost like there wasn't an election or that the LNP won it-Ed)...indeed, one could be forgiven for thinking either of those things...(I note that the ABC's notorious LNP gushing fangirl Jane Norman has been trending on Twitter for failing to refer to Prime Minister Albanese by his actual title, instead calling him "Mr Albanese"-Ed)...yeah, and she's only one of multiple pro-LNP hacks on 'our' ABC who make no effort or are simply unable to hide their disappointment/despair that the LNP lost...(and right across the MSM, it's still wall-to-wall LNP stooges!-Ed)...like I said, almost like nuthin's changed...

Regular Twitter availees will be aware that the Federal Court has ruled that Twitter must reveal the true identity of whomever writes the famous/infamous anonymous account/site PRGuy17...I have issues with 'anonymous' sites, but given the political motivation/justification behind this decision, it's a hugely concerning outcome...(and follows closely the bizarre Federal Court decision to award former New South Wales Deputy Premier, National's leader John Barilaro $700k, for a supposed 'defamation' on comedy news site FriendlyJordies-Ed)...yes, in a context where 1) those 'allegations'/facts have not been investigated by police and/or tested in Court, 2) FJ were not part of the process, and 3) Barilaro was allowed to use 'Parliamentary Privilege' to hide most of the evidence revealed by FJ...(also note that quite a few people have had something to say about that particular Magistrate's, errr, conduct and/or reliability-Ed)...indeed, there's a real push to use the Courts to prosecute political retribution agendas against critics...now a very nasty li'l RW hack and self-declared 'journo' Avi Yemini...(and convicted 'Wife Basher'-Ed)...yeah, and that, well he's had a 'win' in the Federal Court to supposedly 'expose' PRGuy17...(and what about all the RW/LNP stooges with dodgy anonymous accounts?-Ed)...you mean like Andrew Laming, Amanda Stoker, Peta Credlin, etc, well that's the point isn't it...if this decision stands, then why doesn't Twitter have to 'expose' every anonymous account?...     

Given that Twitter is a largely 'Left-leaning platform', often addressing the massive pro-LNP bias of the MSM/ABC, it would very much suit the agenda of the LNP/Murdoch et al, to have their critics exposed and/or silenced...now here's a near-perfect summary/explanation of what has happened with PRGuy17...and it's near-perfect 'cos it beautifully encapsulates/explains the role that the pro-LNP corrupt MSM has played and continues to play...(especially "continues to play" regarding the basic ignoring of Australia's increasing COVID19 infection and death rates-Ed)...and the whole subtext, albeit dominant subtext, of how the lunacy of the LNP/Murdoch Right Wing Neo-Liberalism hates-on the less fortunate, the poor, etc, and absolutely hates having to give-up Cent One of what they consider is 'their' money to try and help others...I've copied and pasted the thread 'cos it's just that good, it says exactly what I want to say...massive kudos to Lee Tenant for this...*** 

Dame Holly Armchair Everything

@Lee_Tennant

The thing about PRGuy is that you have to understand where he/she came from and why they do what they do. Tweet 1 of several, all of which are merely my armchair assessment of the situation.

1:43 PM · Jun 8, 2022·Twitter Web App

Australia for the last decade has been held hostage by the Murdoch press lock step with other large corporations in an economic system increasingly lurching towards fascism and run by kleptocrats and oligarchs.

The Covid pandemic was a huge threat to this group because it demanded social expenditure and actions that benefited people rather corporations. All societies plagued by Murdoch and his ilk promoted a laissez faire attitude to the pandemic.

This was entirely so resources wouldn't be redirected away from corporations and oligarchs to ordinary people. It had no backing in science, medicine or epidemiology. It was, in fact, madness to just pretend the pandemic wasn't happening. But that's what they wanted to happen.

In the middle of all this, came Dan Andrews. Originally Dan caved to the weight of the media and the federal LNP but once there was a large outbreak in his state he rallied and insisted on implementing measures to contain Covid as per the science.

These measures needed to be harsher and more far reaching than if they'd be implemented nationwide with a strategic and coordinated federal effort. They hurt. But they needed to be done.

The media - Murdoch or non-Murdoch - had, however, bought wholesale into Murdoch's international narrative on the Covid response. That there shouldn't be one. So they went FERAL. Absolutely feral.

We were all there. We all saw it. The howling rage of a media who couldn't handle a Premier going against their established narrative. In the middle of this, came PRGuy.

Let's be clear here. PRGuy's aim was not to be balanced, neutral or journalistic. It was entirely to create a counter-narrative. To skillfully use (impressive) social media skills to promote an alternative narrative.

This is really important! To understand PRGuy you have to analyse the account in relation to the narrative he was trying to counter.

Criticism 1: PRGuy lacks nuance Of course they lack nuance! The narrative they're countering lacks nuance. They weren't trying to provide an intelligent, nuanced discussion of the pandemic. They were providing a direct counter-balance to something equally broad.

Criticism 2: PRGuy is working for Dan Andrews While I of course allow for the possibility that this may be true, the main reason PRGuy is stridently pro the Andrews administration is in direct response to the stridently anti Andrews propaganda at the time.

The implication that somehow they must be a staffer or directly on the payroll simply doesn't stack up against what we know of political bots and fake accounts. They pretend to be everyman, not start hashtags that say IStandWithDan.

PRGuy's entire purpose was to reflect back Murdoch driven narratives with a mirror narrative. Equally as shallow, equally as simplistic, equally as emotion-based. To expect either more of the account or to accuse it of less is to misunderstand its purpose.

There is a reason why pro/anti PRGuy tweets are geographically distinct. For Victorians living through a lockdown, they wanted the media to reflect their reality: that it was difficult but necessary, something they were happy to do because of the benefits for everybody.

Instead they were fed an insane and distorted version of reality - yes even from people like Karvelas - that portrayed them as victims of injustice. They wanted the lockdowns, they wanted the government to do something about the pandemic but the media was wedded to its story.

Is it really any surprise that a populist account arose out of this cognitive dissonance? Once that provided a coherent counter-narrative to the mainstream media that reflected how Victorians felt about themselves, their community, their government and the pandemic?

Who is PRGuy? I don't know and I honestly don't care. But if they've pissed off somebody like Avi Yemini they must have done something right.

***...simply brilliantly exactly true...

In closing, I'll just acknowledged what regular availees will already know...this weekend, the June long weekend 2022 is exactly 20 years since "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling was 'removed' from St Martins Lutheran School in Mt Gambier, South Australia, officially the start of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(albeit the cover-up truly began several years earlier when Dorling was first moved to St Martins from Adelaide after "an incident" there-Ed)...exactly, and included the 3-4 years of multiple complaints the Lutherans ignored/covered-up between then and 2002... 

Tomorrow: A Brief Chronology Of The St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up

A text-book study of an Institutionally Pro-Paedophile Corrupt State's protection of a "text-book grooming paedophile", including how that manifested as the Pro-Paedohile Political Persecution of my "bizarre trial" under the equally bizarre ICAC secrecy legislation...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...