Fake left masthead, Crikey, has what we might describe as Murdoch derangement syndrome.
Every day, it looks for the thinnest reasons to condemn the Murdoch press, presumably because it supports an equally biased subscription base.
This is not to say that on many occasions, the Murdoch Press does not have it coming. It does. A lot of the time, it is the idiot cypher of the LNP.
This is the fake right. A purportedly liberal value system that is, in fact, just a cheerleader for specific corporate interests and trickle-down economics. Most notably Murdoch’s interests. It is about as friendly to markets and progressive reform as Lenin was, is often anti-science, and is nearly always socially regressive.
However, for a few years now, the fake left press – that includes Crikey, The Guardian and ABC – has become just as biased as Murdoch. Except on the side of the supposed left.
The fake left is now the idiot cypher of Labor and The Greens. The value system is woke. A purportedly liberal ideology that cheerleads progressive culture wars over class consciousness and national interest calculus.
Both polarities are biased points of view, but the two pursue them differently.
The Murdoch Press uses opinion as a weapon. The bullying tactics of newspaper and TV commentary are the spine of the message. The outstanding example is Fox News and, increasingly, its local mini-me, Sky.
The fake left press is not so bellicose. But in some ways, its tactics are even worse than those of the fake right.
The fake left operates primarily via censorship. Cancellation enforces its point of view. Any questions, analysis or debate about issues it does not agree with are disqualified from coverage. At the same time, it promotes thin content of those that it does agree with.
Thus, the perfectly reasonable and ethical arguments put forth by MB about subjects such as national interest, immigration, energy markets, and economics are all actively suppressed by the fake left press.
On the other hand, the Murdoch Press does still canvas these debates. Its commentary is biased but mixed with viewpoints it does not agree with.
The evolution of this polarisation is some toxic combination of the rise of social media, the fall of the rational centre, and, most importantly, the education of Millennials in a soup of French post-structural theory that privileges the power of symbols over traditional history.
Thus, the most revealing feature of the fake left and fake right confrontation is a tribal fight over empty totems.
Beneath this phony war, capitalist forces of production freely ravage everybody via open borders and the planet’s destruction.
