Sear conceals the Green’s sinister media agenda

  

The Greens want to muzzle criticism of the left, and Jeremy is keen to conceal that agenda

As we all know, Jeremy Sear is a member of the Victorian Greens and an outspoken supporter. That of course is his right. But when it comes to concealing the anti-free speech agenda of the Greens, he is guilty of intellectual dishonesty, on the very blog that is supposed to expose and denounce it.

According to Jeremy, the only purpose of The Green’s proposed inquiry into the Australian media in the wake of revelations of phone hacking and other scandalous practices at News Of The World in the UK is ”to make sure that everyone is living up to [John] Hartigan’s declared standards”.

Jeremy then quotes Andrew Bolt’s column, which reveals the fact that the Green’s agenda is in fact far wider than that. But Jeremy deliberately cuts out the paragraphs which show that this is in fact the case.

The part that Jeremy deliberately censors is this the very one that reveals that, for the Greens, this is about much more than simply upholding ethical standards within the Australian media:

[Bob Brown] says he does not want an inquiry just into media ownership, and the determination of a “fit and proper” newspaper owner – the very kind of restrictions which have allowed the Gillard Government to intimidate TV proprietors.

He also made clear he wants a more Left-friendly coverage. He said he wants to ensure newspapers are “even handed and unbiased and to a degree selfless”. By whose standards, Bob? “Unbiased” the way the ABC is “unbiased”?

He says he wants to the inquiry to tackle “‘the narrow range of media opinion and the intrusion of opinion into the news columns”. What narrow opinion, Bob? Are you worried about the fact that The Age has not a single on-staff conservative as a columnist? That the ABC has not a single conservative host of a TV current affairs show? Or is it the conservative voices which trouble you, especially those in the Murdoch papers of what you call the “hate media”?

Brown wants better rules to guard “privacy”, which could make it harder to tell you important facts about public figures that may safeguard your democracy.

When Bob Brown talks about media being ‘unbiased’ and ‘even-handed’, you can be sure that he’s not referring to the pro-left bias that exists in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Left Green Weekly or the ABC. What he is instead clearly referring to is the scrutiny of the Greens and the left more generally of the so-called “hate media” (News Ltd), which happens to be owned by the same company as the News Of  The World.

Likewise, examination of the determination into who is a “fit and proper” person to be publishing in print is Orwellian. Proper to whom? Whose agenda? Which viewpoint? When governments get involved in deciding who can and can’t publish, you can be assured that the effect will be one that reduces dissent.

That the Greens are abusing their new-found power in the current government in order to stifle criticism of themselves is indeed scandalous. But it isn’t surprising that the Greens are behaving this way, given that they are essentially an undemocratic party.

After-all, they are imposing a carbon tax on the Australian population, the vast majority of whom do not support it. Additionally, they are proving to be rather sensitive to scrutiny being applied to them by newspapers such as The Australian. They also oppose  the Australian people a having chance to vote on the carbon tax before it is fully implemented, and advocate in favour of “proportional representation”, where noisy minorities such as themselves get to exercise power and influence in excess of their actual levels of support in the community.

Likewise, Jeremy is also an anti-democratic supporter of proportional representation, and also threatened me with defamation for daring to criticise him. So like his beloved Greens Party, Jeremy is no supporter of free speech and real democracy.

And by deliberately hiding the facts from his readers,  and basing his arguments accordingly, Jeremy is committing intellectual dishonesty – the very thing he allegedly abhors in others.

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