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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.

www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-na...

Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine

Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".

www.lamestream.com.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 15d

Good point!!

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 15d

This idea of Australian exceptionalism in the face of surging fascism is ridiculous. We are already worse than the US on so many fronts: immigration, speech. Our Labor government is signing us to the deepest alliance with the US since WW2, using our money to rebuild Trump's military. Get real.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 15d

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.

In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster

www.smh.com.au/national/why...

Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia

We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.

www.smh.com.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 15d

A less than ideal family tree

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 16d

Please more people read this. I’m going crazy. It can’t have been edited. There has not been a worse “interview” published.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 16d

The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...

‘People don’t want to have this conversation’: Virginia Tapscott’s uncomfortable crusade

With childcare in crisis, the freelance writer feels vindicated in challenging the status quo.

www.smh.com.au

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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 22d

i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.

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Jack Callil @jackcallil.bsky.social · 23d

"Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP. Its report, delivered a month before the publisher’s controversial axing of the 85-year-old journal ... did not include closing Meanjin."

—@nickfeik.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...

Who killed Meanjin?

And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

www.crikey.com.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 23d

It’s comparing 2021 to today, on the right.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 23d

It’s ridiculous framing for a question the paper then uses as a proxy for support for AUKUS generally.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23d

If the question was posed as shown it’s misleading. Getting nuclear subs is one thing, paying $X00 billion to maybe get them in 30 years and forever tie out defence to whatever warmonger is in the White House at the time is quite different. I imagine many more would oppose if they knew the context.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 23d

Incredible stuff here from the Nine papers to combine “I don’t have strong feelings but I accept the fact we have purchased these submarines” with “support”.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 24d

I agree, the far-right doxing tens of thousands of people who didn't respond to Kirk's death the way they wanted is exactly the same as... the ACLU maintaining a glossary on extremists. Maybe the worst, bad-faith take on the Kirk stuff published in Aus yet www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Australia must reject the US model of political violence, but there’s a bitter pill

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air their frustrations.

www.smh.com.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 24d

It’s actually just remarkable how little local reporting or analysis is taking place re Kirk. The one piece by a prominent columnist (Amy Remeikis) was deleted. That seems like a story! But no one else has covered it but us?

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 24d

Really odd to me that over the past 5 days the far-right, aided by the Murdoch media, have launched harassment campaigns against prominent Australians for their comments on Kirk and the “progressive” media… just isn’t reporting it?

We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

How Charlie Kirk's Assassination Is Reshaping Our Politics

Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 14/09/2025 · 44m

podcasts.apple.com

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 25d

I found the original Cheek Media most to be incoherent and very weird, but a federal politician being bullied by the far-right into unliking an Instagram post, and putting a media release out about it, is a grim reflection on who controls discourse and culture right now.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 27d

Ezra Klein using Kirk’s death to celebrate some imaginary version of liberalism that only exists in his head… as the US right is using it to further entrench fascism and obliterate anyone who doesn’t echo Trump’s views on Kirk and what lead to his death…

Insane.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 27d

"mainstream media called them 'anti-immigration' rallies...even though the speakers' lists were littered with people using white supremacist talking points".

Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
shows.acast.com/lamestream/e...

The Murdoch Succession Saga, Why Race Reporting is Broken, and the TikToker vs. 'News Influencer' Controversy | Lamestream

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 27d

This week's episodes of Lamestream is packed with great media analysis, as always, but bravo to @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social discussing the state of arts journalism in this country - and outlining why blogs and substacks aren't necessarily the answer to fill the gap. open.spotify.com/episode/003u...

The Murdoch Succession Saga, Why Race Reporting is Broken, and the TikToker vs. 'News Influencer' Controversy

open.spotify.com

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

Gotcha.

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

There are big Australian social accounts, like Cheek, deleting comments every minute where people are celebrating the shooting. That isn’t “expressing indifference”.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

Worth responding to them then? Just odd to reply to me and suggest either I, or the OP, are asking anyone to sympathise with Nazis. The idea that we were an example of the far right misrepresenting the response seems pretty dumb.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

Cool, I’m responding to what I’ve seen (and presumably so has Cam). Makes sense to engage with that imo!

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

Pretty much my view on the rally. Is it related to Cam’s thoughts on the reaction to Kirk’s death?

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 28d

Yes that is precisely what Cam was saying.