un declared bias

Our daily paper is having an attack of righteous indignation against "men only" clubs.

oh dear. So Kerry Stokes -- owner and opinion-enforcer for the paper -- has been rejected for membership of the Weld Club? A media empire hath no fury like a rich and otherwise influential millionnaire spurned.

Today's piece of anti-Weld nonsense has a number of otherwise sensible people uttering threats.

Company directors must be required to declare their membership -- or otherwise -- of gender-based organisations. Otherwise -- according to the bias of the paper -- otherwise these members cannot be trusted to set standards for equality within their own organisations.

Only the men-only Weld Club is named. Poor Kerry, so sad to be ignored.

Yet there is an unfortunate lack of honesty in the attack article.

Several of the attackers fail to declare their own memberships.

If I am not mistaken, several of the attackers are female.Members of the half of humanity which is female. (or similar.)This leads to an impression of bias. And yet... the obvious bias is undeclared. Which brings the entire article into question.

Well, okay: that last sentence is nonsense. because the entire article -- the entire series of anti-Weld articles -- is rubbish. Just one example of the danger of all local media being controlled by one person. by one person. With an agenda of his own. An agenda which replaces "news" with "opinion". Really!

Yes! the one daily paper does not have "news" There are many pages headlined "opinion". As though this is "a good thing" in a daily paper.

A good thing?

Good grief.

If only we had a daily NEWS paper :-(

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