Peter Barnes II (#auspol account)
@infinite8horizon2.bsky.social
Alter-ego of @infinite8horizon.com (the nice one, with pictures). This account for politics & biting social commentary (rants).
Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d
Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d
Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
Whose sudden awakening to the horror of Gaza needed not one, but
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
journalists and media workers to be
KILLED BY ISRAEL
in
GAZA
before this pitifully unself-conscious headline appeared?
MFing Journalists.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABCNews
#auspol #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
journalists and media workers to be
KILLED BY ISRAEL
in
GAZA
before this pitifully unself-conscious headline appeared?
MFing Journalists.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABCNews
#auspol #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Whose sudden awakening to the horror of Gaza needed not one, but
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
journalists and media workers to be
KILLED BY ISRAEL
in
GAZA
before this pitifully unself-conscious headline appeared?
MFing Journalists.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABCNews
#auspol #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
journalists and media workers to be
KILLED BY ISRAEL
in
GAZA
before this pitifully unself-conscious headline appeared?
MFing Journalists.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#ABCNews
#auspol #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
Who gave us no-actor or passive-voice headlines "Palestinian children die" instead of "Israel kills Palestinian children"? Journalists.
Who have been excluded from Gaza for years, but make no complaint? Journalists.
Who have been excluded from Gaza for years, but make no complaint? Journalists.
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Who gave us no-actor or passive-voice headlines "Palestinian children die" instead of "Israel kills Palestinian children"? Journalists.
Who have been excluded from Gaza for years, but make no complaint? Journalists.
Who have been excluded from Gaza for years, but make no complaint? Journalists.
Narcissism and wilful blindness in one headline...
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
August 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Narcissism and wilful blindness in one headline...
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
#auspol #gaza #palestine
Who are the only people who have trusted Israel since the genocide started? Journalists.
Who trusted Israel when they started bombing innocent women and children? Journalists.
I know this is news ("news") to nobody but I am moved to register my continuing disgust at State Media (sorry, the ABC) "reporting" on the atrocity that is Gaza.
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
August 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I know this is news ("news") to nobody but I am moved to register my continuing disgust at State Media (sorry, the ABC) "reporting" on the atrocity that is Gaza.
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
After nearly two years of blatant genocide, they finally spin it as a "humanitarian situation", but...🧵
Our government, with an unassailable majority, continues to ship arms and voice “concerns”.
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
May 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our government, with an unassailable majority, continues to ship arms and voice “concerns”.
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
Day after day, week after week, month after expletive month this genocide has continued to their abject moral cowardice.
They’re not fit to lead a family, much less a country. #auspol
Dutts is auditioning to be Brian Pegmatite, in a spin-off “Life imitates Art”
April 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dutts is auditioning to be Brian Pegmatite, in a spin-off “Life imitates Art”
I think that's #31. They've hidden the electrodes well.
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I think that's #31. They've hidden the electrodes well.
B1, A3, D3
April 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
B1, A3, D3
No doubt many political candidates are grubs, but isn't it wonderful the collective amnesia of the political press once someone's elected?
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
April 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No doubt many political candidates are grubs, but isn't it wonderful the collective amnesia of the political press once someone's elected?
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
They're candidates like anyone else, but corruption, cruelty, all minutely documented, ALL FORGOTTEN
An apology for ACTUAL refugee abuse? Coalmines? Pffft...
Fixed it...
I have to say The Grauniad isn't where I'd go for truth about genocide either.
I have to say The Grauniad isn't where I'd go for truth about genocide either.
April 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Fixed it...
I have to say The Grauniad isn't where I'd go for truth about genocide either.
I have to say The Grauniad isn't where I'd go for truth about genocide either.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde
@cathywilcox.bsky.social from 2022.
Hasn't aged a day.
#auspol
@cathywilcox.bsky.social from 2022.
Hasn't aged a day.
#auspol
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde
@cathywilcox.bsky.social from 2022.
Hasn't aged a day.
#auspol
@cathywilcox.bsky.social from 2022.
Hasn't aged a day.
#auspol
"Peter..."
"Yes, dear?"
"The children want to have a sleep-over and play board games"
"What? Children.. Over... Board? CHILDREN OVERBOARD!? Yes!! CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE! CHILDREN OVERBOARD, I'm saved, I'm saved!"
"Yes, dear?"
"The children want to have a sleep-over and play board games"
"What? Children.. Over... Board? CHILDREN OVERBOARD!? Yes!! CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE! CHILDREN OVERBOARD, I'm saved, I'm saved!"
April 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Peter..."
"Yes, dear?"
"The children want to have a sleep-over and play board games"
"What? Children.. Over... Board? CHILDREN OVERBOARD!? Yes!! CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE! CHILDREN OVERBOARD, I'm saved, I'm saved!"
"Yes, dear?"
"The children want to have a sleep-over and play board games"
"What? Children.. Over... Board? CHILDREN OVERBOARD!? Yes!! CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE! CHILDREN OVERBOARD, I'm saved, I'm saved!"
4. e.g. Your salary
5. e.g. Your owner's and editors' political position
6. e.g. Your job
Who will write your obituaries when you won't write your colleagues?
5. e.g. Your owner's and editors' political position
6. e.g. Your job
Who will write your obituaries when you won't write your colleagues?
![MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics
Respect for truth and the public’s right to information are fundamental principles of journalism.
[Truncated use screen reader for whole]
1. Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts. Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis. Do your utmost to give a fair opportunity for reply.
2. Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief, or physical or intellectual disability.
3. Aim to attribute information to its source. Where a source seeks anonymity, do not agree without first considering the source’s motives and any alternative attributable source. Where confidences are accepted, respect them in all circumstances.
4. Do not allow personal interest, or any belief, commitment, payment, gift or benefit, to undermine your accuracy, fairness or independence.
5. Disclose conflicts of interest that affect, or could be seen to affect, the accuracy, fairness or independence of your journalism. Do not improperly use a journalistic position for personal gain.
6. Do not allow advertising or other commercial considerations to undermine accuracy, fairness or independence.
7. Do your utmost to ensure disclosure of any direct or indirect payment made for interviews, pictures, information or stories.
8. Use fair, responsible and honest means to obtain material. Identify yourself and your employer before obtaining any interview for publication or broadcast. Never exploit a person’s vulnerability or ignorance of media practice.
9. Present pictures and sound which are true and accurate. Any manipulation likely to mislead should be disclosed.
10. Do not plagiarise.
11. Respect private grief and personal privacy. Journalists have the right to resist compulsion to intrude.
12. Do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qkdfoxnh77zobc3lnmcs5xgd/bafkreievdrhauqnnottirvuu6ru7rwk4cqq4p4der4lo47mkpcnc6qbibq@jpeg)
April 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
4. e.g. Your salary
5. e.g. Your owner's and editors' political position
6. e.g. Your job
Who will write your obituaries when you won't write your colleagues?
5. e.g. Your owner's and editors' political position
6. e.g. Your job
Who will write your obituaries when you won't write your colleagues?
Leunig echoes… (From The Penguin Leunig, before he went a bit strange)
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Leunig echoes… (From The Penguin Leunig, before he went a bit strange)
I’m surprised the #ABC can afford pearls to clutch, they’re certainly not cultured.
Coming soon: “Angus Taylor too cheap to pay influencers, emulates Trump’s ‘John Barron’”
Or “Political parties spend millions in undeclared donations to spread deliberate lies”
SMDH
#ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
Coming soon: “Angus Taylor too cheap to pay influencers, emulates Trump’s ‘John Barron’”
Or “Political parties spend millions in undeclared donations to spread deliberate lies”
SMDH
#ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
April 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I’m surprised the #ABC can afford pearls to clutch, they’re certainly not cultured.
Coming soon: “Angus Taylor too cheap to pay influencers, emulates Trump’s ‘John Barron’”
Or “Political parties spend millions in undeclared donations to spread deliberate lies”
SMDH
#ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
Coming soon: “Angus Taylor too cheap to pay influencers, emulates Trump’s ‘John Barron’”
Or “Political parties spend millions in undeclared donations to spread deliberate lies”
SMDH
#ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
... and, hilariously, I opened the article and did my usual search for "climate change" expecting no hits at all, but, by golly, there were TWO.
Relax, ABC fans, here is the first one. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Gstaad is saved.
Relax, ABC fans, here is the first one. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Gstaad is saved.
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
... and, hilariously, I opened the article and did my usual search for "climate change" expecting no hits at all, but, by golly, there were TWO.
Relax, ABC fans, here is the first one. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Gstaad is saved.
Relax, ABC fans, here is the first one. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Gstaad is saved.
"...why should I begrudge myself the small pleasure of being right"
I WAS RIGHT
We are now, oh-so-predictably, at Step 4, and baked into it is Step 1 "in 90 days".
The media should be just as ashamed of themselves as the Republicans.
#ThisIsNotJournalism #ThatWasNotJournalism #uspol
I WAS RIGHT
We are now, oh-so-predictably, at Step 4, and baked into it is Step 1 "in 90 days".
The media should be just as ashamed of themselves as the Republicans.
#ThisIsNotJournalism #ThatWasNotJournalism #uspol
April 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"...why should I begrudge myself the small pleasure of being right"
I WAS RIGHT
We are now, oh-so-predictably, at Step 4, and baked into it is Step 1 "in 90 days".
The media should be just as ashamed of themselves as the Republicans.
#ThisIsNotJournalism #ThatWasNotJournalism #uspol
I WAS RIGHT
We are now, oh-so-predictably, at Step 4, and baked into it is Step 1 "in 90 days".
The media should be just as ashamed of themselves as the Republicans.
#ThisIsNotJournalism #ThatWasNotJournalism #uspol
It's the *silent* bipartisanship that marks where the bodies are buried. The dogs that didn't bark in the night. When even the duopoly fades into monopoly...
But vigorous, Chomskian debate about tightly constrained topics, our democracy at work. And the fierce glare of the 4th estate...
But vigorous, Chomskian debate about tightly constrained topics, our democracy at work. And the fierce glare of the 4th estate...
April 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's the *silent* bipartisanship that marks where the bodies are buried. The dogs that didn't bark in the night. When even the duopoly fades into monopoly...
But vigorous, Chomskian debate about tightly constrained topics, our democracy at work. And the fierce glare of the 4th estate...
But vigorous, Chomskian debate about tightly constrained topics, our democracy at work. And the fierce glare of the 4th estate...
State Media was on it this morning, a trifecta of tantalising headlines being ALL their "Top stories". Like push-polling, only less subtle.
There is no climate change; your hip pocket, right now, is all that matters; gas is a given & there are only TWO choices. Oh, and EXPERTS.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
There is no climate change; your hip pocket, right now, is all that matters; gas is a given & there are only TWO choices. Oh, and EXPERTS.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
April 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
State Media was on it this morning, a trifecta of tantalising headlines being ALL their "Top stories". Like push-polling, only less subtle.
There is no climate change; your hip pocket, right now, is all that matters; gas is a given & there are only TWO choices. Oh, and EXPERTS.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
There is no climate change; your hip pocket, right now, is all that matters; gas is a given & there are only TWO choices. Oh, and EXPERTS.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
Well, the #ABC is pretty clear on what existential question faces voters, & it isn't
C L I M A T E C H A N G E
Oh no, it's #GAS and dollars
It's also clear that ABC readers can only vote for one of two parties, GAS & GAS-LITE.
infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/greatest-hit...
#ThisIsNotJournalism
C L I M A T E C H A N G E
Oh no, it's #GAS and dollars
It's also clear that ABC readers can only vote for one of two parties, GAS & GAS-LITE.
infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/greatest-hit...
#ThisIsNotJournalism
April 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well, the #ABC is pretty clear on what existential question faces voters, & it isn't
C L I M A T E C H A N G E
Oh no, it's #GAS and dollars
It's also clear that ABC readers can only vote for one of two parties, GAS & GAS-LITE.
infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/greatest-hit...
#ThisIsNotJournalism
C L I M A T E C H A N G E
Oh no, it's #GAS and dollars
It's also clear that ABC readers can only vote for one of two parties, GAS & GAS-LITE.
infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/greatest-hit...
#ThisIsNotJournalism
...and how about that staunch defender of honesty and integrity, The Guardian? Well, unlike everything that Israel says which is initially reported as fact, a video confirmed by the U.N. only "appears to contradict". And it's not verified video, it's "phone footage".
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
...and how about that staunch defender of honesty and integrity, The Guardian? Well, unlike everything that Israel says which is initially reported as fact, a video confirmed by the U.N. only "appears to contradict". And it's not verified video, it's "phone footage".
The NYT? The stiletto to Fox’s bludgeon.
April 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The NYT? The stiletto to Fox’s bludgeon.
Roughly 32% of eligible American voters said they wanted Trump. Roughly 31% said they didn't. The remaining 27% couldn't be bothered getting off their fat arses.
The 27% who didn't vote are getting what they deserve.
The 32% are getting what they deserve, maybe not what they asked for.
The 31%, sad.
The 27% who didn't vote are getting what they deserve.
The 32% are getting what they deserve, maybe not what they asked for.
The 31%, sad.
April 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Roughly 32% of eligible American voters said they wanted Trump. Roughly 31% said they didn't. The remaining 27% couldn't be bothered getting off their fat arses.
The 27% who didn't vote are getting what they deserve.
The 32% are getting what they deserve, maybe not what they asked for.
The 31%, sad.
The 27% who didn't vote are getting what they deserve.
The 32% are getting what they deserve, maybe not what they asked for.
The 31%, sad.