Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Another day with Australia's least trusted newspaper ...

And another thing.

You see, it's charming to watch the Daily Terror, the least trusted newspaper in Australia, step into the new millennium.

This is featured in its "From around the site" front digital page effort at click bait:


Uh huh. Amazing enough that the Daily Terror knows Stewart exists, let alone links to a piece by him mocking the usual Fox dingbats, Murdochian cousins of the least trusted tabloid in Australia.

So the pond went along for the ride.

If you click on Jon Stewart drops F-bomb on The Daily Show when attacking Fox News reporters on global warming mockery, you get a brief video segment and a brief story, as a reward for swallowing the click bait.

At the bottom of the story, you get this:


Tell us what you think? Isn't thinking and the Daily Terror mutually exclusive?

Never mind, the urge to "start a conversation" confirms it's click bait, but it's the link that's the killer.

If you follow it, you end up on a Mediaite page Stewart Rips Fox on Global Warming: 'Your F*cking Opinion' Is Not as Valid as Scientific Fact!

And here's what you score "for the extended version, go here".

You were probably hoping to see this sort of thing, featuring freezing body parts, and the mindless stupidity of turning to the Trumpster for an insight into climate science:






Instead this is what you copped:



Ah, the old territorial restriction, put in to protect the studio empires, one of which is controlled by Chairman Rupert himself.

No doubt the Daily Terror, the least trusted newspaper in Australia, is having palpitations about the arrival of a down under version of the online Daily Mail, the lowest, most pandering, demeaning form of right wing, rabid, perfected click bait, online propaganda sheet imaginable, an aspirational guide to the dreams and delusions of the Terror, but they really will have to do better if they want to staunch their current bleeding - circulation falling, paywall not working, clicks not muscling up ...

Meanwhile, if you want to watch Stewart outside the USA, there are ways and means, including spoofing Firefox and Chrome (here) or using a VPN. You cop US advertisements and geotargeted ads, but these have a certain quaint charm.

Going to the source has several advantages, not least meaning you don't have to bother with click bait from the least trusted newspaper in Australia, while doing your bit to undermine the world hegemony of Chairman Rupert ...

The pond only presents this information in a fair and balanced way. The choice is yours ...

Of course there are interesting insights into what might be causing the current chill - there's a brief summary in 'Polar vortex' blamed for American chill (forced video at end of link) but you hardly expect any kind of informed discussion amongst the Murdochians, down under home for denialism.

Oh and online, Stewart's "Fuck" was bleeped in the usual way, so that it came out "F*cked".

Fuck the pond dead, even that click bait header about Jon Stewart dropping the F word on TV was f*cking silly ... he's been saying f*ck for f*cking years ... in a bleepy sort of f*cking way ...

There's a reason why the Daily Terror is the least trusted newspaper in Australia ... just like its kissing cousin in the United States, Fox News can only be trusted to deliver hysteria and misinformation...


2 comments:

  1. The lesson to be drawn here? Clearly the hack who put it altogether was using a proxy, and didn't see the territorial restriction, meaning the Terror is a den of internet pirates, bandits, thieves and cut-throats.

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  2. thank you dorothy very much for the link on how to watch jon stewart here :-).
    you are a true champion.

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