Stilgherrian returns with a solo episode of the Edict in which he has quite a long rant about some of the changes at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. But there’s more.
In this episode he also talk about Nazis, flat earthers, Republicans, Rishi Sunak, the Metaverse, gas stoves, Boris Johnson, Tony the Tiger, and demanding meat at gunpoint.
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Icelandic National Day (Icelandic: Þjóðhátíðardagurinn, the day of the nation's celebration) is an annual holiday in Iceland which commemorates the foundation of The Republic of Iceland on 17 June 1944. This date also marks the end of Iceland's centuries old ties with Denmark. The date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson, a major figure of Icelandic culture and the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement.
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Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like We Made It", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".
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[4 June 2023] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivering your priorities in May 2023.
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[9 June 2023] The drag shows will go on. At least for now. On June 2, 2023, Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump-appointed federal district court judge in western Tennessee, ruled that Tennessee’s “Adult Entertainment Act” violated the First Amendment’s free speech protection.
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[28 October 2018] While I was in Washington DC recently, I recorded an interview with attorney and author Mike Godwin, he of Godwin’s Law fame.
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[6 June 2023] In Nazi Germany, transgender people were not used as a political wedge issue in the way they are today. There was little public discussion of trans people. What the Nazis did say about them, however, was chilling.
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[12 June 2023] Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes cereal mascot Tony the Tiger was seen walking the Tony Awards' magenta carpet with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Sunday, and conservatives are now saying it's time to cancel the cereal company.
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[16 June 2023] Former aide Guto Harri says bid to oust Sadiq Khan would be ‘great idea’.
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[9 June 2023] Today ABC Managing Director David Anderson released the ABC’s new Five-Year Plan. The central purpose of the Five-Year Plan is to ensure the ABC remains relevant, delivers value for Australians, and continues to be the most trusted media organisation in the country.
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By 2028 the ABC will be an integrated digital operation and most of the audience engagement with the ABC will be through our digital products.
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Australian audiences are increasingly fragmented across platforms and devices and have more choices for watching and listening than ever before. Analysis of the ABC’s operating environment shows that audiences who prefer to use digital platforms will soon exceed audiences for broadcast radio and television. To reach and serve them, the ABC will need to strengthen and extend its digital products and content. This will also maintain the ABC’s value to society as a trusted source for news and high-quality Australian entertainment.
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[15 June 2023] Probyn said he was told by the ABC they ‘no longer need a political editor and they want to reinvest the money into social and digital reporting roles’.
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[8 January 2015] Chris Uhlmann has been appointed to a newly created ABC position of Political Editor. Uhlmann, who has been political editor for 7.30, has been with ABC’s Canberra unit for 8 years and will report across all ABC broadcast and digital outlets.
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[17 June 2023] The Political Editor role was a job title created in 2015, primarily to report for the 7PM News, at a time when the majority of our audience was primarily serviced by the 7PM News. We retain the roles of Editor, Politics and Deputy Editor who manage and have editorial responsibility for coverage.
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[17 June 2023] As the government passed landmark legislation for the arts, it was jarring to see the national broadcaster take steps in the other direction.
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RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.
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[25 May 2023] Brooke talks with Ben Smith, the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Semafor and author of the new book, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, about his goals in building a newsroom at BuzzFeed, the lessons he learned, and what he thinks about the future of of news.
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[28 June 2017] What’s at stake for Australian culture when journalism, critique, even art, are treated as mere content, designed to fit into institutional structures?
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[23 May 2023] Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash."
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[15 June 2023] Exactly 1 year ago today, there were headlines about McKinsey predicting the METAVERSE would create $5 trillion in value. I mean AI-gen is already looking more valuable than the metaverse so it’s hilarious McKinsey couldn’t be bothered to fake an even bigger imaginary number.
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[8 June 2023] Fox guest: There's just no health risk...We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency... this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event... particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.
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Steve Milloy has been associated with the major American tobacco companies since at least 1997... Milloy is also a senior policy fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute.
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[7 June 2023] “This week, House Republicans will proudly pass the Save Our Gas Stoves Act and the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act." - @RepStefanik
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[20 April 2023] REPUBLIC, Mo. — On April 18, Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be served meat.
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