Australian media bias?
UK, US, Europe, the rest of the western world, for sure, but bias against Christians in the Australian media? Surely not! Yet that is exactly what Paul Kelly claims in this opinion piece, written for The Australian on October 6. His article includes choice quotes such as:
Tony Abbott minister, and George Pell cardinal, are two of the hate figures of the Sydney media—and any meeting between the two men is both a big story and a conspiracy. Indeed, it can't be anything else. This is an act of secular faith that transcends time, place and other measures of the temporal world.
Pell is detested because he favours a muscular Christianity, not the limp-wristed social justice variety and Abbott is detested because he wants to inject Christian values into politics and this is ultimate sin for the secular religionists.
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For the liberal media, bishops aren't supposed to get involved in politics, unlike greenies or film stars, unless of course the bishops are opposing a war or calling John Howard a racist in which case they are moral arbiters.
I always thought the Australian media was neutral! I am going to have to read more carefully in future.