Thursday, October 20, 2011

Deliberate mistakes?

Arthur Sinodinas, who impresses me generally and I welcome as new Parliamentary blood for the Coalition, writes in the Australian today:
There is talk that Rudd is wooing Bob Katter so he can dispense with the support of Andrew Wilkie and the pesky pokies tax.
What? There is nothing "tax" about voluntary pre-commitment for pokies at all. Yet this same line had been used by Channel Nine spokesperson last week when they wrote about how it was a political ad was spoken during a high rating rugby league match:
''The comments relating to the federal government proposed poker machine tax reflect the views of the Nine Network regarding matters directly affecting the NRL community,'' she wrote, again misconstruing the pre-commitment policy as a tax.
This is a bit of a convenient mistake that keeps getting repeated, isn't it?

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