|
Page 1 of 8
There is a theory that Howard will run a longer campaign in order to give time for Rudd to slip up.
However it seems to me that it is the Howard team that is stressed, feeling the pressure and more likely to lose perspective in the heat of the election. They also have a great many more ‘issues’ in their past.
 Rudd has run his own strategy this year which has involved a lot of ignoring Howard wedges and gazupming him on major issues. I am pretty sure he will run his own distinct campaign with a minimum of dialogue and dispute with the Howard team.
The real problem for Rudd is the Murdoch press who have now shown their colors. Rudd made a trivial error on tax scales, Costello made a major fundamental error on the calculation of tax using the scales and, also the size of tax cuts, Howard made a May stuff up on tax scales and Downer made a fool of himself trying to ‘cheat’ on Lateline in reciting the tax scales. However which one got reported? Which one got beat up into a critical error over a few days? The most trivial of the lot.
I think this proves a deliberate bias by News Ltd and, in an ideal world, would lead to them losing every switched-on Labor reader by the end of this year if it tries to steal the election from Labor by dishonest sycophantic publishing.
This will be Rudd’s problem. Howard and his team can make as many dumb errors as they like during the campaign and rely on the Murdoch press to barely mention them. Whereas for Rudd, every minor slip - even indirect slips - will be beat up into major 'gaffes', signifying deeper flaws in his character, trustworthiness or abilities.
It would be ironic if The Australian's reputation ends up being reduced to that of a propaganda rag because of a desperate attempt to elect Howard. Hopefull they will respect democracy, decency and honesty and report even-handedly throughout the course of the election campaign and put its sycophantic reporters out to dry.
- Kina from the Ozelection2007 Forums (edited by JJ) Addendum: To anyone who considers this article to be biased, implausible or plainout tin-foil hat - I would draw your attention to this article that I mentioned in another post on Murdoch's change of heart on climate change. While it is a benign or even beneficial example, he talks about subtly introducing the issue into the content of his news stations and tv shows. He even says he can persuade his right-wing commentators to support his view. If he can do that with climate change, why not with Australian Federal politics. - JJ
Views: 1349
|
Comments (36)
