I saw nothing that one describe as ‘woke’ which is really common decency to all human beings - however the music was not to my taste so watched SBS with Andre Botticelli. Beautiful music
This blow-back from the failed and tragically mismanaged Voice Referendum. 'No' voters think they voted against FN's people tout court. Why are they even on air now?
Hopefully 2025 brings the end of Rupert Murdoch and his divisive rhetoric on our society.
The entire civilized world will celebrate 🎉 🎈🎶🎊 the day he is announced dead ☠️.
Hopefully 2025 is the year.
"I believe that if it wasn't for The Australian today, if the policy debate in Australia today was being driven by the ABC, then we would be a totally different country.
Arrogance and entitlement personified. Also a lot of delusion that he's saving us from a country run by the ABC. Self interest writ large here by Lachlan. This twisting of things works on the morons and gullible though and he knows it. 😡
I think our role is essential both here in Australia but also in Britain and the United States. This is absolutely how I see my leadership mission. It’s also our responsibility as a company and I feel that very strongly."
So basically he's saying his role is to influence our countries in a bad way
Sometimes on YouTube in the US we get recommended Sky New Australia videos. I've seen Trump supporters watch those videos and think something like this "Wow! Even Australians get it, everyone agrees with me!" but what they don't understand is what they are watching is basically the same as Fox News
In Australia do you guys have the problem where they show Sky News on TVs in public places like restaurants, gyms, or hospitals? Unfortunately here it's somewhat common. I've been trying to teach people who to change the channel on public TVs.
Great description Mike. I thought the ABC coverage was exceptionally good this year. And a 1.97 national audience is quite amazing. Sky purely playing politics for the LNP. And likely insanely jealous of a 1.97 million national audience.
Here's hoping that Australia doesn't fall down the same K-hole that the United States has. "Woke" is what protects average citizens from fascism. Stay "woke", Australia!
After last year we only put the ABC on for the fireworks section. The ABC political advertising is at the first year uni level with a whole hearted moral self love. Unaware of broader discussion and loving jargon like white privilege. I want the ABC to be clever, not clumsy. Clumsy hurts us all.
That's too kind - what they really want to say is:
Black people - N words, hard R
Gay - F slur that is a bundle of sticks!
Women - bitches or 'two holes' in the incel community
Remember that when you hear people talking about 'woke'. They just want to be vocally bigoted!
Damn the ABC for bringing up our history at a time like NYE when people are looking to end with the old and start with the new but still this indigenous thing persists. It's like something isn't finished 🤔
Well, as an American, I’m glad we’re not the only ones where people can’t handle cultures and demographics other than their own being represented. (Actually, I’m not glad at all. I was hoping the rest of the world had more sense than us. 😒)
TBF, I guess right-wing idiocracy is not necessarily uncommon in the world (but the US has the market cornered on denying healthcare, strangling education, incarceration, guns and all sorts of other asinine stuff...☹️
It’s always befuddled me how ppl can be racist towards Native Americans & Indigenous Australians. Y’all took their land, decimated their populations w/ systematic genocide, put them in human preserves, then attempted to erase their cultures. How can you still hate a ppl you’ve so utterly subjugated?
Sky News is just Fox News in disguise. They don't represent Australians, they're just more conservative Murdoch trash that assumes it's what we want to hear.
Gawd a whole article about the indignation of a handful of whinging RWNJ - As my nan would say,’ Good grief these people need a good dose of epsom salts!
A channel with 17 viewers (1/2 of whom nodded off in front of the TV hours earlier) gets a significant boost to their organic reach by attacking the ABC, knowing that will outrage people on socials, who will dutifully repost/screenshot and engage, and the algorithm picks up the activity
Culture Wars is their MO — insidious background noise topped up by the occasional manufactured crisis. Can’t have the great unwashed drawing the wrong conclusions, can we?
This was buried in the https://news.com effort ... "But the majority of posts on X otherwise appeared to be praising the ABC’s coverage and the fireworks show." Those people saying this anti-ABC rant was already ready to go before the broadcast seem to be on the money.
The linked article buried the lede behind the click bait title & a few paragraphs of really active verbs for a whole lotta nothing. This idiot author put in a nice little blurb at the end that made clear it was widely popular. They know the ppl they're writing too won't read that far.
Why oh why did Albo not move on the concentration of press in this country??? But that stated how dare the knuckle-draggers use the term 'woke' in the derogatory, fuckers. Proud to be WOKE 😎🥳
The supposed 'indoctrination' coming in the form of a plea for people not to be horrible to one another. Note that the viewers quoted were all on X, which tells you everything you need to know.
Those Murdoch types early to bed then with no kids good night from Ruupie unless they kick the ABC- think it’s time these lot got a bit of kindness into em
Imagine an ABC NYE Broadcast that wouldn't get RW AUTO-WHINE.
It would have to include a live cross to Gina every hour including at Midnight.
There'd be banjo ukeleles in between a 3 hour long Tina A concert.
Friends in the UK (media people) watched the fireworks on the ABC & loved it. There's a lot to be done to bring the ABC back to the standard it once held, but the constant sniping from the gutter press is ridiculous. Same with some posters, find a good story to share. Help those at the ABC who care.
Not just Murdoch. Perth Now had an almost identical story this morning using word ‘woke’ in its headline - it’s since been moved off the first page and a little further down the pecking order. Coincidental? I don’t think so.
There’s no need to keep checking, Mike. Sky journalists were AI long before AI. Sky operates to cause harm to our democracy and their employees are fine with it.
Look it’s from Sky Australia
Our own home grown racist media network, with the resident racist called in to offer her sober judgement, For
The LNP propaganda machine. Don’t watch #GutterMedia!
it would appear both the article and the complaints were written by a kid with a crayon using butchers paper, or is that what AI is, I honestly can't keep up anymore.
It seems they were a couple of minutes late crossing to the 9pm fireworks because Robbie Williams sang an extra song. Anthony Albanese must resign immediately and call a royal commission.
I'm telling you these MAGA people are the worst sore winners I've ever seen. They got their man in. They should be happy enough to leave us the fuck alone, at least for a minute. Guess they expected everyone but MAGA to disappear on November 6th. They're so pitiful.
How did that one person in that article turn it off and tune into Disneyland fireworks? Disneyland wouldn't be setting off new years Eve fireworks for something like 18-20 hours later
They would have had that story ready to roll well before the show, and just slotted in a few RWNJ comments from Twitter in at the last moment. Twitter is a reliable source of utterly foul right wing sentiment, so perfect for Sky.
Well there's no way this person could have watched this year's Disneyland New Year's Eve fireworks, California is something like 20 hours behind us. If Disneyland does 9pm fireworks, they won't be going off for another half hour yet
They have got to be kidding. One mention of "be kind to each other" and one use of they/them pronouns which I would not have even noticed if I hadn't known.
Also I hate "woke" as an insult. Surely its better to be self-aware and able to learn new things than to be closed off and ignorant?
What is frustrating is that they are the first thing you see when you open the Microsoft Edge browser or you arrive at an airport. Their ‘journalism’ in either the link description or news ticker describes the assertions their propaganda as fact when it’s usually a few redneck boomers on Facebook.
They drag out the same article every year. And there and there baited angry mob jump on demand. What sad existence. To just be on social media looking for something to rant about.
Wait, they say it’s “woke” because there was a land acknowledgement and an image of an Indigenous woman was displayed along with the fireworks, and they’re also mad because Robbie Williams finished singing just before midnight?
You mean that bigoted mob who insist Oz started with Cook in spite of (65,000years now) evidence to the contrary & with every Dutchman, Spaniard & their dogs ‘discovering’ Tas & Oz? Main one sticking in their craws is INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS were here FIRST. We are all refugees.
What exactly was the ‘woke’ messaging? All Aussie acts were excellent
GFlip &Casey Donovan outstanding. Robbie was the cringiest when not doing what he does best and singing.
The fireworks?
Hosts were fine. No ‘woke’ political commentary from them.
White men bitching because aboriginal culture was shown in the pre-light show I believe I read. It’s ridiculous they view that as “political” when it was just giving love to the culture/people. It’s mind blowing how much people will just complain about anything.
Obviously you're,, not from Australia ,, but some poor quality foreign country with poor quality intelligence concerning Australian culture with including the indigenous culture and people
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Years later I related this story to an Australian work colleague and he launched into an explanation of why some racism is actually a good thing 🤦
The entire civilized world will celebrate 🎉 🎈🎶🎊 the day he is announced dead ☠️.
Hopefully 2025 is the year.
"I believe that if it wasn't for The Australian today, if the policy debate in Australia today was being driven by the ABC, then we would be a totally different country.
So basically he's saying his role is to influence our countries in a bad way
Just in case.
Black people - woke
Gay - woke
Women- woke
Black gay women - sky news heads explode!
Black people - N words, hard R
Gay - F slur that is a bundle of sticks!
Women - bitches or 'two holes' in the incel community
Remember that when you hear people talking about 'woke'. They just want to be vocally bigoted!
"woke" is simply being conscious and kind.
I've had to shower and change to remove the stench.
These people walk amongst us stealing oxygen.
😳
#MurdochRoyalCommission
Please stop
It drives them nuts.....😒🙄
Come on, Aussies! Don't let this shit infect your country, too!
It would have to include a live cross to Gina every hour including at Midnight.
There'd be banjo ukeleles in between a 3 hour long Tina A concert.
Australia has a magat infestation.
Our own home grown racist media network, with the resident racist called in to offer her sober judgement, For
The LNP propaganda machine. Don’t watch #GutterMedia!
There. Fixed it.
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/robbie-williams-rocks-sydney-on-new-year-s-eve-20250101-p5l1ge.html
And don't start me on the recorded "comedy" segments.
2025 - New Year, same shit
Murdoch keeps counting his money
Was busy rocking my own shit show. There was a nudie flare run though. Memorable.
By their own logic, we should react and call them what they truly are: a movement of 'EVIL', pushing the agenda of division, anger, and violence.
They are the EVIL-ISM movement.
Also I hate "woke" as an insult. Surely its better to be self-aware and able to learn new things than to be closed off and ignorant?
Stop looking for things to be outraged by. You're not in charge of everything. You're not the culture police.
So to them:
woke = not silent and invisible?
- 'woke'
- 'political statement'
- 'cultural education'
- 'disgusted'
- 'Indoctrination'
- 'embarrassing'
I didn't see anything that described the event, only descriptors used for the event.
What was, 'disgusting?' What was, 'embarrassing?' Onstage live sex acts?
GFlip &Casey Donovan outstanding. Robbie was the cringiest when not doing what he does best and singing.
The fireworks?
Hosts were fine. No ‘woke’ political commentary from them.
"Stop lecturing me!"