Five things you should know about Col Allan
Dr Mumbo welcomes the news that the combative News Corp editor Col Allan will “temporarily” return to Australia. It’s probably going to give him lots more to write about.
Here’s five things you might want to know about Allan:
1. The return to Australia of the pugnacious New York Post editor has long been rumoured… including in 2010, or 2011, or 2012;
2. He is famous for his toilet habits, particularly during editorial meetings. In 2000 Crikey published a piece which reported that he urinated in a sink in his office to avoid walking across the newsroom.
Cartoons “were” useless…
A cartoon “was” useless…
And his appointment is all to do with the NBN, the biggest infrastructure project affecting Rups business model. So much for democracy when an American decides who will be PM of Australia.
The real aim of Col Allan’s mission in Australia is clear already: Rupert Murdoch has sent him here to push NewsLtd editors to ramp up their sensationalistic pro-LNP, anti-ALP propaganda to manipulate voters to overlook the achievements of this competent Labor Govt and instead install unproven, unsuitable and economically-illiterate Abbott as Prime Minister, so Australians would miss out on the high-performance NBN internet network that is a commercial threat to the Murdoch-owned Foxtel business. It’s disappointing that, to date, few if any NewsLtd editors and their journalists appear to have the professional ethics and integrity to resist Murdoch and Allan’s politically motivated pressure to produce pro-LNP and anti-ALP propaganda. I hope we see some who find their principles and have the backbone to resist this editorial poison.