Thursday, July 13th, 2006...12:52 pm
Angela Shanahan continues to get it wrong, but at least it won’t be stuffing up my Saturday morning anymore
The last item in “The Diary” in the media section of today’s Australian was so good it roused me from my sickbed to share it:
ANGELA Shanahan is distressed to have been dumped as a columnist for The Canberra Times. On Monday the new editor, Mark Baker, sent her a note sacking her. Shanahan, wife of The Australian’s political editor Dennis Shanahan, describes Baker’s actions as “censorship” because of her views on the ACT’s gay marriage bill, which stirred up a lot of debate among readers. “This would be the equivalent of The Australian sacking Janet Albrechtsen or Phillip Adams, just because some people didn’t like them,” Shanahan tells Diary. Baker says he discontinued Shanahan’s column after reviewing all the opinion writers. Baker, a former deputy editor, opinion editor and diplomatic editor of The Age, became editor last month following the departure in March of the contentious Michael Stevens, editor since 2001. Baker, who promises to reverse the Crimes’ circulation decline, says Shanahan had two years writing on the paper and it was time for some “fresh voices”. He denies Shanahan’s conservative politics have anything to do with his decision. “She is a person with forthright views and she has every right to express them,” Baker tells Diary. “But I have other people who come from a similar direction to her writing for the paper.”
Yes, “Censorship”! Oh, how I laughed.
Take some personal responsibility, Angela. It’s because you’re not very good.
18 Comments
July 13th, 2006 at 7:26 am
By her logic, I am being censored by every major media outlet in Australia because they don’t publish my views. What a tool she is.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Angela used to be published in the Sunday Telegraph and I could never work out why. Then I found out she was the wife of Dennis and it all made sense.
Add me to the list of people censored by MSM as well.
July 13th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Thank gawd for small mercies
July 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
I’d be happy to see The Australian sacking Janet Albrechtsen or Phillip Adams.
July 14th, 2006 at 7:13 am
YAY – the best news I’ve seen in a while!
July 14th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Heh heh heh. I think she should try and pick up a gig with the Women’s Day.
July 14th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I’m sure they’ve rung her already.
Hooray for the CT!
July 16th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Great news indeed!
I’ve been ranting about Shanahan’s shenagnis recently after one too many wheatbix choking incidents. She is truly a conservative lunatic of the highest order. I’d love to have made the call giving her the flick!
http://conservativelunatics.blogspot.com/
July 17th, 2006 at 3:27 am
Conservative lunatic – you have no comments link enabled at your blog, so I’ll have to thank you here for your link to Shanahan’s submission to the Standing Committee on Family and Human Services’ inquiry into work life balance. It is a gem.
July 17th, 2006 at 3:48 am
justice!
she should look on the bright side, though: at least this way she won’t be so conflicted by the fact that she frequently reminds us how women belong in the home, and yet she herself leaves her nine poor bairns to pursue a journalism career. selfish mother!!
oh, wait, i got a bit overexcited. she’s still writing for the other rags, right? damn.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:41 am
Zoe,
Yes, quite a treat that particular sub.
I’d also like to know why the shanahan family has a deranged border collie and who made it deranged (Appeared in one of her articles)?
More lunacy in the link ’shanahan shenanigins’ on http://conservativelunatics.blogspot.com/
Great little snippets about international women’s day being a crock, why gays are horrible people, why the pope kicks arse etc etc.
Cheers
Slinky
July 17th, 2006 at 7:53 am
I know her son, or at least a couple of them.
They’re surprisingly okay, but sadly seem to be moving towards print journalism.
God help us all, it’s like Dallas.
July 17th, 2006 at 9:12 am
hey rach,
are they fully indocrinated with Angie’s view of the world?
slinky?
July 25th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Note that “Your Say” was canned, Jack Waterford subjected to nullofication and now Shanahan gone.
Only persons with a voice through the Canberra times now are Zionists,Christian Zionists, closet Zionists, PhiloSemites, Queers, Racial Minorities, Ring Stingers, Trotskyites, Consumerist liteweights, University Educated dilettantes,shrill minorities and Rural Idiots. Pretty much includes most of you lot I’d say.
http://www.fatherfeeney.org/point/index.html
July 25th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Well no doubt you’re praying for us, Darryl. When you get some spare time from all that Jew-hatin’, of course.
Lovely 1950’s retro Jew-hatin’ link too. You should be proud of yourself, spreading all that Christian love.
July 26th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Agnostic by the way. Looking for our reason for being like the rest of us.
The palpable irony in the expanding mideast war is that the Muslim Arabs are in fact following the Christian principle. That is, attempting to throw the Pharisee (Israel) out of the their “temple”. True to their nature, the Pharisee (so called “Jew”) will have others (Europeans,US,Canada,Australia)fight and die for them. Just as Mahatir said. National Socialist Germany also followed the Christian principle in attempting to remove the Pharisee from his temple. Every single progrom and expulsion of the so called “Jews” is a replay of this particular human experience.
GroundHog Day for the Pharisee will never end until he abandons his religion of racial supremacism and entitled “Chosenness”, or proves conclusively to gentiles that his G_d exists.
Here’s a link for your readers that alludes to the fact that the Muslim Arabs are not nearly the Stupid Sandmonkeys (Jawas) as labelled by the Amen corner of the ChristianZionist “right”.
http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/greaterisrael.htm
September 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Hilarious to hear Shanahan bleating about censorship, then posting tripe like this:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26024058-7583,00.html
So she’s basically in favour of censorship unless she’s the one being told to STFU. Nice.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Dear Editor, this is my heart-felt comment in response to the AUSTRALIAN opinion-piece by their prolific family staffer Mrs Shanahan:
- Back in the 70’s I laughed at a London-based Flat-Earth Society, but when I realised it was all for good fun, I laughed with them instead.
However, a loony propagandist like Mrs Angela Shanahan is just plain scary in her blind support for fundamentalist Catholic dogma. Being as reasonable as a automatic answering machine in Rome, I wonder what on earth possessed The Australian management to let this shrill “Voice of Papa” in on their pages.
Her arguments are so incoherently constructed that she can’t even give a religious Future Fatalist any succor while awaiting The Rupture. Her thinking just leaves me shivering cold and maybe a little curious if she like a famous conservative female USA mega-family-politician also like to go rifle hunting for bush-meat around her home state.
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