[csaa-forum] the 'left leaning' Bolt

[Louise North]

I have been watching the flow of emails that the Bolt story has generated on 
this list and of course, it has become 'talk' in both industry and academic 
circles.. and having a foot in both camps, I have to wonder if we (the CSSA 
community) is missing the point about one aspect of the Andrew Bolt 
phenomena. I am told that Bolt worked as an advisor to Bob Hawke and so 
perhaps his current right wing diatribe is more about finding a high profile 
niche in News Ltd, than actually believeing what he writes: ie. he is 
prostituting himself for the sake of notoriety and career progression.
I'd say that Bolt is/has surveyed the columnist scene and has become the 
John Laws of print....
Just some thoughts, perhaps the list already knows of Bolt's 'left' leaning 
past.
Louise North

>From: Dr Laurie DUGGAN <l.duggan1 at uq.edu.au>
>Reply-To: CSAA discussion list <csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au>
>To: csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au
>Subject: [csaa-forum] the Bolt issue cont'd
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:13:04 +1000
>
>Some pretty good points from Christian McCrea. Oddly enough I've used the 
>opposite self-defensive tactic. As soon as I had a tenuous connection with 
>a university I introduced myself as a 'student' or an 'academic' rather 
>than as a 'writer'.
>
>Laurie
>
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