Regular New Matilda readers might recall that earlier this year, Channel 7 threatened to sue us for calling their journalism on Adelaide Today Tonight ‘trashy’. Because bullies.
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2017 was the Year Of The Vendetta. There was Tony Abbott’s pursuit of Malcolm Turnbull’s job; everything that The Australian wrote about anything; New Matilda’s public comments about the Daily Mail (not to mention our private ones); and the Australian Christian Lobby’s hate affair with same-sex marriage.
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It’s no secret that comedy is producing some of the best journalism in the world at the moment – think John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight program (well it was, prior to breaking up for the year, but it’ll be back in 2018). Some of the best political analysis is also coming from comedians – from Seth Meyers to Stephen Colbert to Trevor Noah to Samantha Bee, nothing happens in America these days without it being lampooned and explained by comedians. It’s a brave new world.
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This is an ACTUAL report from a punter who dropped $590 for VIP tickets to see neo-Nazi sympathiser and paedophile booster Milo Yiannopoulous and his ‘slightly un-athletic bottom’. Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
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He claims to hate ‘identity politics’, but curiously, British-American blogger/activist/comedian/hate-speech promoter Milo Yiannopoulos is the first to retreat to it when he feels threatened.
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