I was surprised to see that Andrew Bolt made a number of postings on his blog on a Sunday. I would have thought he would take Sunday off but then again maybe people are more likely to view blogs on a Sunday because they are not working themselves.
Most of Andrew Bolt’s posts are reasonably short. He usually has an extract of a story and comments on that story. There are links from his blog to the original site of the story. Not surprisingly the stories all come from Fairfax owned newspapers like The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. There are no links on Andrew Bolt’s blog which will take you to a non Fairfax owned paper like the Daily Telegraph.
Bolt likes to keep it short with his postings. Today most of his postings were only a couple of sentences long. He takes a story and tries to stir up debate about it by making very strong comments about it. Andrew Bolt appears to be very prejudiced against Kevin Rudd in his postings. One posting today was about the likelihood of Malcolm Turnbull challenging Brendan Nelson for the Liberal leadership (http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/gone_too_far_for_nelson_to_hang_on/). Bolt still managed to get a shot in at Rudd on this posting saying how this allowed Rudd to “cement in place some myths about his competence”. After reading Bolt’s blog for two weeks it is not very balanced when it comes to Kevin Rudd. Basically every day for two weeks there has been multiple postings where Bolt attacks Rudd. It gets a bit repetitive because no matter what the topic is you know Bolt is going to have a go at Rudd.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Andrew Bolt's Blog April 9
I have chosen to review the blog of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. He is a controversial political commentator and his blog should be interesting. The url is http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/.
Andrew Bolt posts on his blog very frequently. His postings concern currents events and his comments on the breaking news of the day. The vast majority of his posts relate to political news. On Wednesday 9 April Andrew Bolt made 15 separate postings on his blog, spaced throughout the day from 5:00 am to 6 pm. All of his posts drew comments from readers. Today’s postings covered a number of issues with the controversy surrounding the Olympic torch relay being a major focal point.
Of particular interest was Bolt’s posting regarding the 60 minutes story from Sunday night. The story involved a father and daughter who have been found guilty of incest. It has emerged that 60 minutes paid the father and daughter for their interview. Bolt’s criticism of this was strong and he drew strong support from his readers. I agree with his assertion that it “stinks” that these two people should benefit from breaking the law. Profiting from crime is immoral and illegal and 60 minutes should not have paid them for their interview. If they wanted to do a story on a murderer would they pay him for his interview as well? It is difficult to tell where 60 minutes would draw the line after a story like this.
Andrew Bolt posts on his blog very frequently. His postings concern currents events and his comments on the breaking news of the day. The vast majority of his posts relate to political news. On Wednesday 9 April Andrew Bolt made 15 separate postings on his blog, spaced throughout the day from 5:00 am to 6 pm. All of his posts drew comments from readers. Today’s postings covered a number of issues with the controversy surrounding the Olympic torch relay being a major focal point.
Of particular interest was Bolt’s posting regarding the 60 minutes story from Sunday night. The story involved a father and daughter who have been found guilty of incest. It has emerged that 60 minutes paid the father and daughter for their interview. Bolt’s criticism of this was strong and he drew strong support from his readers. I agree with his assertion that it “stinks” that these two people should benefit from breaking the law. Profiting from crime is immoral and illegal and 60 minutes should not have paid them for their interview. If they wanted to do a story on a murderer would they pay him for his interview as well? It is difficult to tell where 60 minutes would draw the line after a story like this.
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