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Relatively good

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Happy 60th to pretty good stuff

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where everyone knows “monoculture” is just Nazi code for “white australia” but the media keep on refusing to call it out?

#NewsCorpse

[Hock @hock_17]

@NateSilver538 With all due respect, stfu

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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@thepressboxpod

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@xskinn @60Mins Wait, what?

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That was a bloody great game of football. #AFLHawksDogs

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BT’s commentary tonight has been really poor. #AFLCrowsCats

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When is Chris Scott going to change his mid life crisis hair style? #AFLCrowsCats

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This young lady on The Chase just suggested that young people like her are Liberal voters. Maybe it’s a 7 year old rerun. #AUSPOL #TheChase

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Good week for the Scott brothers. #AFLBluesCats

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@BernardZuel Beautiful

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@bleedbailey Came here to say this

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Not highlighting the fan catch here is a whiff.

[MLB @MLB]

Curtis Mead 2-run homer!

It's the @Nationals second homer of the first inning! 💪

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Mara just declared Stonewall Jackson a Union General on #TheChase

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@Steven_Hyden Sturgill’s Scooter Blues is a recent entry to the summer music hall of fame as far as I’m concerned

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@worldwarbot Good job mate. It’s been fun.

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Good on New Zealand for giving it a crack.

[WorldWarBot 2020 @worldwarbot]

March 2104, Brazil conquered Cambodia territory previously occupied by New Zealand.
New Zealand has been completely defeated.
3 countries remaining.
#Brazil #NewZealand #Cambodia

[Hock @hock_17]

One in several million @thepressboxpod

[Variety @Variety]

#HarryStyles is a one-in-several-million performer, unusually warm and charismatic, communicating an almost irresistible joyfulness in his loose-limbed, stumbly dancing, and in the positivity of the things he says to the crowd between songs — messages about togetherness and sensitivity to others, about the love of music and dancing.

Read the full #TogetherTogether concert review now: https://t.co/ywTcpsoo9C

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@Steven_Hyden One in several million I tell you