So glad we have Media Watch to shine the light of truth on our cockroach 'journalists'.

So glad we have Media Watch to shine the light of truth on our cockroach 'journalists'.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3346987.htm

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  1. Quisalas Rah26 October 2011 at 07:12

    This is so much more interesting than what "Stupid Republican Candidate Said This Week," which is all our TV news has consisted of for about 3 months now. :( I didn't even know that Australia was having a lot of refugees come in.

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  2. Rob Masters26 October 2011 at 09:03

    Crystal, that is a part of it - the actual numbers we are talking about are tiny, by comparison to the routinely processed refugee intake!

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  3. Nat Bradford26 October 2011 at 09:04

    Proportionally, we don't have a lot of refugees coming in, but like in all countries they are the target for lowest common denominator politics and media interests

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  4. Vernon Everett26 October 2011 at 16:08

    TT doing scaremongering, sensationalist drivel? Who'd have thought?
    In other news, water is wet.

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