Channel 10 gets caught by the Streisand Effect

 

On Monday 28 January 2013, in a month which saw Australia wracked by bushfires and floods, @TenLateNews tweeted this…..

 

Once the fingers stopped typing the Channel 10 crew apparently had second thoughts and deleted this monumentally inappropriate tweet. Thereby ensuring it was going to be picked up and amplified by the Twitterverse.

 

Hers is a small sample:

 

tim_stew Timothy Stuart

. @TenLateNews what happened to that ridiculous tweet? Why delete? We all know it happened. #auspol #ausmedia

2 days ago Reply Retweet

 Favorite 7

 

cartwheelprint Cartwheel Printing

“@FakeChrisPyne: Hey @TenLateNews, I think you misplaced your tweet. Lucky I saved a copy for you! #auspol http://t.co/NT0YVITf” What the?

23 hours ago Reply Retweet Favorite 9

msjuju8 Julie/Juju

@bernymcatlady @TenLateNews @nickjatan .. nothing disappears from cyberspace

2 days ago Reply Retweet Favorite 5 more

 

noplain Jane

Oh. Look at @tenlatenews deleting tweets like they never happened. New to the internet, are we? #tenlate

2 days ago Reply Retweet Favorite 5

 

geeksrulz The Geek Rulz

In a sea of @AndrewLamingMP derp, @TenLateNews still leads the pack at 48.59% Add your vote now http://t.co/0bdKCwCk#DumbestTweet2013

2 hours ago Reply Retweet Favorite 5

 

http://stopthestunts.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/poll-for-the-dumbest-tweet-of-2013-so-far/

 

 

Gillard is verballed. How many times is that now?

In 2005 then Treasurer Peter Costello said this:

“CANBERRA: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament. “If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you,” he said on national television. “I’d be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that that is false. If you can’t agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country which practises it, perhaps, then, that’s a better option,” Costello said.”

Three years earlier an American had written a piece called “This is America. Like it or leave it”

By 2013 the Gillard haters had drawn inspiration from both these examples of xenophobia and put together this rubbish now being emailed round the traps:

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Sustainable Management for Horse Properties Workshop Series February 2013 - Bellingen, Coffs Harbour, Casino, Grafton

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Even the tourists are noticing that there is a coal seam gas mining corporation operating in the Clarence Valley

 
Letter to the editor in The Daily Examiner 14 January 2013:

Preserve wetlands
A holiday visit to the Clarence Valley area this new year has revealed unimaginable delights. After sighting a group of emus, a Google search revealed they are an endangered species - the coastal emu different to the inland variety.
Further searches revealed that many species of flora and fauna living in this remarkable area with its stunning wetlands and waterways have been listed as endangered or threatened.
The next sighting was of two brolgas. This sighting had to be confirmed by a local as I was not sure what they were, having only seen them in Kakadu National Park. The brolgas were within a couple of kilometres of the coal seam gas drilling ring at Glenugie. This is a significant area to be cared for and preserved for our grandchildren’s children. We can't afford to risk polluting these precious waterways with gas mining not even needed for Australian consumption.

Sandy Thompson

Sydney