Thursday, February 16, 2006

Have we done any kangaroo posts yet?

As part of signalling that it's a worldwide distributed news gathering organisation, Pajamas Media loves having that byline "PJ Media in Sydney" appearing above some posts. Hence, Pajamas Media readers could surely have anticipated regular updates from Australia today on the only news story there: the broadcasting by SBS of previously unseen Abu Ghraib photos. Alas! Visitors to Pajamas Media do indeed see lots of posts from the staff in Sydney, but here's the list of topics currently showing with the Sydney byline(03:26 GMT):

7 posts in total --
new fangled contact lenses
Syrian media says avian flu created by Jews
Australian entry in Iranian cartoon contest
Possible Hillary Clinton opponent
Trouble on the set of hit TV show Friends
Al Gore in Jeddah much worse than Cheney shooting someone
Tobacco-chewing in Finland


and finally, from some Pajamas Media blogger not in Australia:

Coming soon to a newspaper near you [the Abu Ghraib pics]. A newspaper that likely elected not to publish any of the cartoons that have caused so much ferment in the Islamic world of late.

The apparent conclusion being that the main role of their Australia operation was to come up with enough silly posts to push any mention of the atrocities as low as possible in the page, with the added insurance of a stupid equivalence between the cartoons and the photos -- the latter depicting stuff that like, actually happened. This could all just be written off as the antics of another idiot blogger(s), except these guys raised $3m in venture capital for this shite! There truly is a fool born every minute.

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