The COVID madness has created a most unusual dynamic for the residents down-under and the painfully monitored Australian media who have to be careful not to run afoul of the government COVID compliance watchers.
Once a nation creates an alternate reality of itself, in this case a totalitarian reality based on government needing to create an irrational illusion of fear that becomes part of the accepted national identity, how can a media outlet call attention to the outcomes without finding themselves in front of the governmental board of inquisition? That is the current challenge for media in Australia trying to report on their reality and yet avoid the ire from the national board of COVID compliance who have successfully brainwashed the audience.
One Australian media personality, Sky News host Rita Panahi, seems to have found a way. Ms Panahi continues to highlight broadcasts from around the world and articles in publications such as The Atlantic and The Times of London. The articles are commenting on the freedoms Australians had lost throughout the pandemic. Rita Panahi avoids the COVID Compliance censors by reporting on how the world is viewing Australian news. It is weird, and yet it is a perfect example of how bizarre the world has become over COVID. WATCH:
“Publications around the world, which previously did not pay much attention to Australia, are wondering what sort of a dystopian nightmare we have turned into,” Panahi says. Later following with “we are not like the rest of the world. Australia and New Zealand stand alone in enforcing some of the most draconian restrictions on what are supposed to be free people.” Which is precisely the point.
I commend the strategy of Sky News and Rita Panahi for reporting behind enemy lines, to allies within her own nation, in such as manner as the enemy controlling the broadcast signal cannot remove her voice.
Be wary of anyone with “A Show”.
More overexcitement I’m afraid.
Yes, the Australian situation can’t last….eventually the money will run out to subsidise incomes galore or the country will finally realise that the latest death rate vs positive test rate of 0.57% does not a deadly pandemic make.
The Australian media are compliant with Statist left govt because they choose to be. Just like the US.
The corporate tv media owners will also make their position known to their “journalists”. Just like the US.
However to claim there is any regulatory or legislative truth in “government COVID compliance censors” is still the same BS as when you last made the claim.
Yeah and if you believe there are no government censors I have a time share investment opportunity in Port Morsby for a mere 800k for someone of your outstanding intellectual acumen and brilliance. Cashiers check only.
I didn’t assume an official government entity for “the censors”. We frequently talk here at CTH about an interconnected government, media and big tech system that works together to censor, usually through “deplatforming”, etc. You may have read in a literal agency where none was intended.
Ah yes, was told by a friend, who fled a communist country, that recycling , here in Canada, was not really about recycling, but about conditioning. Seams this lady wasn’t conditioned thoroughly:-)))
Love Rita!
I’ve always liked her.
Had no idea she was Australian cuz I never heard her speak!
Figured she was American.
If you decide to Cry Uncle over there in Aus, Rita, we’d be glad to have you over here.
Rita is Persian-Australian – and left Iran as a child.
Guess what – she hates the mullahs.
Australia has become the Gitmo only far far bigger and with less rights for the inmates.
Australia is the next Hong Kong.
I’d call it a gulag. And no Solzhenitsyn amongst them.
Aus. needs more cops like this one:
Is Zachary supporting those who want to secede from Oregon and join Idaho? If not – he should be.
That was JUST awesome!!!
The dweeb on the left was visibly uncomfortable. signaling his cuckitude.
That is Nicholas Reece – and he is VERY MUCH on the FAR left – Deputy Mayor of MELBOURNE – the most locked down city in the World – for over 8 months and counting.
Where are his pajamas and stiletto heels? I kept expecting him to announce he was pregnant.
I could sense the soy-filled flop sweat seeping from his pores as Rita verbally assailed the authoritarian statists.
I have met both of these folks Rita & Nicholas and Rita is a great Woman.
Nicholas is the lefty Deputy Mayor of Melbourne – a city that has been in lockdown for over 8 months!
Glad he didn’t get a word in here, he has nothing useful to say – he agrees with all these restrictions!
This was wonderful to behold. ?
Nicholas looked VERY uncomfortable.
Rita just ignored his obvious discomfort and kept on talking as though he was in 100% agreement.
Are there any decent people who are cops in Aus? Serious question for any Australians reading here, because we see so many vids of them out-of-control w/ their power trips.
As I understand it, he was not wearing a mask and that’s what all the fuss was about.
….” A man has been charged after a dramatic arrest in Sydneys west that saw police smash his window after he locked himself in the car.
The 41-year-old was allegedly resisting arrest and refusing to answer questions from officers in Regent’s Park last night.
He had locked himself inside his car and officers had to break the window to make an arrest.”……
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-sydney-police-smash-car-window-man-allegedly-refused-mask/2a202455-851e-4297-a5cc-fcc85004ae26
Well, my cousins are Australian Police Officers in the State of Queensland – I can only hope they are not as brainwashed as these idiots! Of course, I don’t think they are knowing them, but obviously I’ve never seen them in the field day-to-day given I live 2,000 miles away.
Picture a dog chasing its tail. The poor dog thinks that if it spins hard enough long enough it will catch the bl..dy thing.
Now picture the wisdom of Australia’s unelected health EXPERTS, the Prime Minister, the State Premiers, the Health Minister and anyone else they can drag up. These poor people think that IF they jab 70% or 80% or more of Aussies, they will cut the number of bl..dy cases which has been exploding.
So this is where the dog comes in. The jabbed shed the virus. The more they jab, the more the cases.
All this money and nowhere to go.
It’s brilliant and effective tactics. The Chamorro family did this in Nicaragua with their newspaper, La Prensa, before the progressive government shut the paper down. They also published protest editions with blank spaces for censored stories.
I mentioned on another blog the other day that we here in Australia had more rights on the”Convict”ships coming from England in 1776 than we do today.I haven’t had anyone dispute that fact yet.My how the mighty have fallen.
Watched the clip. Poor guy doesn’t get in a word. Australians can’t even fight back, they turned in their guns.
What does the world’s largest prison look like. The Australian continent.