More Logic From Planet Janet

Janet is quoted in Cut & Paste today railing against those fools who think The Australian has a right-wing bias:

'ONE of the problems with those peddling the line that there's some sort of wicked bias at The Australian is that they've really failed to grasp that there has been an incredibly important political realignment over the last decade over a range of issues.
We're now questioning multiculturalism, we're talking more openly about what it means to be a citizen, on education, on economics and on welfare and, indeed, on indigenous welfare and politics. There has been a huge shift, and I think that those who rail against The Australian have simply failed to catch up.... '

'The Australian reflects very much those mainstream Australian views. And I think the people on the Left who constantly rail against some sort of nasty bias emanating from The Australian newspaper simply haven't caught up with what's happened in Australia over the last decade.'

What breathtaking logic! Let's put aside the fact that The Australian has played an active part in swaying public opinion to the Right on the very issues Janet mentions and focus on the rationale. By using this logic, it would be quite alright for the ABC or The Age to demonstrate a left-wing bias as long as the majority of the population is left-wing. Indeed, she doesn't even try to defend The Australian against such allegations she merely attempts to justify it's slant by claiming that since Australia is a right-wing country, The Australian should be a right-wing paper. Anyone who disagrees with this view has simply 'failed to catch up'.

Since those at The Australian appear proud enough of their Janet's defense to quote it in Cut & Paste we can expect to see more editorial attacks on left-wing 'psycho's' and 'coalitions of the whining' and a continued unbalanced Cut & Paste and Opinion because after all, it's merely representing the majority view.

.........Oh and they've got Philip Adams!!