FEARLESS AUTHOR ALLEGES RACIST PRESS CENSORSHIP
Antony Loewenstein appeared yesterday on ABC radio's The Conversation Hour hosted by Richard Fidler – there's approximately 30 minutes of Loewenstein audio available if you're up for some punishment. He was wearing his book-promoting, Mister moderate disguise. Along the way he again makes dubious mention of Israel's supposedly apartheid-like Jewish-only roads.
He also again claims a conspiracy to censor his writing, this time extending it back in time to the years he spent at Fairfax – he claims Fairfax editors told him they have been directed from above not to publish his work. A management decree that his work not be published is understandable considering he can't write.
When Fidler challenges Loewenstein about this alleged censorship, noting that his work is widely available, Loewenstein decries alleged attempts to censor his work and then goes off on a tangent about the dearth of Arab voices in the press. He in turn uses this as a platform from which to attack the press's innate racism. How could the press in a nation of racists be anything but racist?
At the end of the interview Loewenstein bemoans the friendships lost as a result of his uncompromising position on Israel. Oh well, just goes to show you no one wants to hang out with a whiney, attention seeking fool.
Editing note: Richard Fidler was erroneously referred to as John Fidler. Corrected.
He also again claims a conspiracy to censor his writing, this time extending it back in time to the years he spent at Fairfax – he claims Fairfax editors told him they have been directed from above not to publish his work. A management decree that his work not be published is understandable considering he can't write.
When Fidler challenges Loewenstein about this alleged censorship, noting that his work is widely available, Loewenstein decries alleged attempts to censor his work and then goes off on a tangent about the dearth of Arab voices in the press. He in turn uses this as a platform from which to attack the press's innate racism. How could the press in a nation of racists be anything but racist?
At the end of the interview Loewenstein bemoans the friendships lost as a result of his uncompromising position on Israel. Oh well, just goes to show you no one wants to hang out with a whiney, attention seeking fool.
Editing note: Richard Fidler was erroneously referred to as John Fidler. Corrected.
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