Don't look now, the white elephants are multiplying

[poddster]

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/dont-look-now-the-white-elephants-are-multiplying-20130526-2n...

Interesting and informative article

[not_an_eloi]

fairfax columnist prints blatant NBN falsehoods, dey always get caught out, in the end

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/29/fairfax-columnist-prints-blatant-nbn-falsehoods/

[not_an_eloi]

couple of the comments that followed renai lemay's exposé

Monsta Posted 29/05/2013 at 10:45 am | Permalink | Reply

Awesome effort Renai. Will be sharing and linking widely.

Simon Reidy Posted 29/05/2013 at 4:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

+1. A brilliant analysis of a wildly inaccurate article. While Fairfax certainly aren’t perfect, I usually expect better from The Age. Don’t they have an editor any more? Or anyone with even a hint of IT knowledge they could have run this by before publishing?!

Djos Posted 29/05/2013 at 4:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

Agreed, excellent article, great exposé on more flawed liberal party propaganda!

Chas Posted 29/05/2013 at 11:17 pm | Permalink | Reply

+ another 1
Thanks for this…calling so-called journalists out on lies like these is a great public good, and I thank you.

Dan Posted 29/05/2013 at 11:06 am | Permalink | Reply

How is junk journalism (classified as opinion no doubt) allowed in the press? Surely they woul have to print a retraction or face some serious questions from the Press Council?

etcetera, etcetera

[monman12]

NAE have you been taking lessons from NW?

Some comments that preceded  LeMmay's exposé :-

"The case for wireless as a future broadband replacement for fixed infrastructure has been strengthened by the huge growth in uptake of 3G and 4G mobile broadband services in Australia, with telcos like Telstra adding on more than a million new customers a year.

The Coalition’s rival policy is a sensible alternative to Labor’s National Broadband Network project, based soundly on its traditional principles of liberalism and support for the free market, but also pragmatically taking into account the situation which the the current Federal Government will leave the Coalition with if it takes power in September.

If I can put it this bluntly, Labor has had its chance to demonstrate that it can deliver on national broadband policy, and it has flubbed it. Realistically, if you can’t do more than finish deploying a couple of hundred thousand premises with fibre in six years in office, there is no reason for the electorate to give you another three years to rectify your mistakes."

And all of them from LeMay himself!

[jethro_woolfe]

coppers heaps quicker than fishing lines. waots that conroy thinking ? he's got a fishing line company you bet :^O:^O:^O