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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 6d

*Lamestream and Ette Media I should say!

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 6d

It's funnier too considering how much the (better) smaller outlets will work to credit reporting by other news sites, including in our newsletter this week, for example.

Anyway subscribe to lamestream.com.au

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 6d

Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 22d

Good point!!

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

A less than ideal family tree

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 23d

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 · Sep 16

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 · Sep 16

"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 · Sep 16

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

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · Sep 16

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 · Sep 16

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 · Sep 15

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 · Sep 15

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 · Sep 15

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 · Sep 14

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 · Sep 12

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 · Sep 11

"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

shows.acast.com

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · Sep 11

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 · Sep 11

Gotcha.

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Sep 11

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 · Sep 11

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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