It’s a tricky move to attach gender or race motives to an umpire officiating a tennis match between two women: one Afro-American, the other half-Japanese, half-Haitian but one by one, too many members of the commentariat to count worked overtime to pull it off.
In the morass of Op-Eds scrawled in the wake of the US women’s Open final, focus quickly became lost and one rather simple fact was ignored:
Take this tweet from ABC presenter, Virginia Trioli. She claimed to have read almost all there was to read about what had happened and only then had been moved to judgment by way of retweet with comment. The retweet was of a judgy columnist, Margaret Sullivan, who splatters words around for the Washington Post and the New York Times, sometimes in some recognisable order. She, in turn, was tweeting up a rapidly cobbled together think piece from Sally Jenkins at WaPo. Jenkins, Sullivan enthused, got it “exactly right.”
Full column here.
PIIIIIIEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Ah, shaddup.
That was *before* the game! (Hey, I’ve been very circumspect!)
Try and keep it down, TV.
Is that a religious requirement?
All the boys where circumspect when I was a youngster, Wiss. Can I sue anyone?
How does this rate with Warnie’s ‘ball of the century’? Probably Warnies because he did not take advantage of footholes as much as Rashid’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5pbduRF0Ho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsThkJt83Ok
Right up there though and a crucial wicket that opened up the tail and ultimately gave England the win.
Its all lies its a conspiracy. how dare anyone try and hold the majority of media and their owners to account. Newscorp will not stand for it. What is that again about protesting to much?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/21/inside-the-news-corp-tribe-how-powerful-editors-shape-the-news
Listen, you can’t come in here and over multiple comments assert the infallibility of your opinion and shit-can my employer into the bargain. I won’t have it. Lots of places you can do this but not here. I hope I have made myself clear.
Always listening JTI from the inception of the blog.
No prblem with you commenting but the incessant stuff I can do without.
With a best buddie in the Whitehouse seems there’s no stopping Vlad. Knocking off folks here and there with Novichok – and now WADA has rolled over and reinstated the Russian dope cheats.
He’s playing puppet master to the rest of the world.
On topic (for a change), considering the allegations directed to the umpire, witnessed and repeated to a huge audience, what would his chances be for a defamation case? A serious question. And it goes not solely to where it occurred, being labelled a thief and the rest, but to all the countries, like us, in which he was (or wasn’t defamed).
Thoughts?
Chad Sayers 2 for 4 from 2 over to date . Noticeably quicker than his test in SA and swinging it.
Man, seriously, if David Littleproud is a shining beacon of the quality of conservative people FFS they are in huge trouble. What a dick. No other way to describe this guy. this is the best the National have and can find. They dont deserve to serve this nation. Worse than a joke. then again family connections matter. Cannot believe this bloke is in a position to represent this nation what an embarrassment. throw in blatantly dishonest taylor,price tehan tudge geez the list goes on and on. What an embarrassment.
I actually like David Littleproud Dismayed….what’s he done to upset you? At least he has a degree and a background in agri-business
” What an embarrassment.” Indeed you are Dismayed. I note some of your stuff on here has even been professionally assessed as “utter bullshit.”
The word on the street and the backyard gyms informs me that you’re a bit of a dick little proud. No wonder you and the company are dismayed!
20 aged care reviews in 20 years now Royal commission. Private aged care homes making $25,000.00 $Profit on each bed each year. do we really need a Royal Commission to tell us our old folks have been commodified.
Same for Child Care and Early Learning Early Education by reducing our youngest an oldest most vulnerable most in need of direction to $ signs we have failed them, the Nation and proven all that is wrong with the neo-liberal and toxic conservative right whinge ways. No surprises.
We have failed them that’s for sure.
The Age Care CEO says six bucks a day for each resident’s meals seems okay to him while one dear old blind lady hangs on tight to her cup in the hope someone will eventually fill it!
That it all comes down to profit is disgusting Dismayed.
Anything done between 2007 & 2013?
3rd over funding announcement in less than 12 months for the already very wealthy and over funded Private and Religious schools. NO guaranteed funding for the Public system and NO COAG to discuss it. This debacle of a government continues to cover itself in shameful class warfare pork barreling . Only the ignorant and dishonest claim the non Public sector saves more than it costs. No Surprises.