Something different

Crikey media analyst Jeremy Sear deviates from the norm with today's post on a Sydney Morning Herald piece by Gerard Henderson. What makes Sear's post different is that it's not about News Ltd: all of the Pure Poison "analysis" and "elsewhere" posts by both Jeremy and sidekick Dave Gaukroger going all the way back to 9 September are News Ltd related.

That's ten days of anti-News sniping from media "analysts" whose stated mission is to "expose the intellectual dishonesty, the flimsy arguments and the distorted data wherever they appear in the mainstream media." Pure Poison's predominantly Left-wing commenters are, being equally News-obsessed, delighted, of course.

Obsessive obsession denial

Australia's most entertaining Lefty blogger:

I don’t obsess over Bolt: he simply writes a huge amount of crap that’s then published by the biggest media company in the land. And I – and the other writers at Pure Poison and its earlier incarnations – reckon that material often needs a proper response.

Not obsessed? Mentioning Bolt 2,765 times over 1,468 days indicates otherwise.

Yet with far fewer mentions of An Obsessive Lefty I am accused of obsessive stalking.

It is also worth noting that Jeremy sees Pure Poison as the natural successor to Blair/Bolt Watch, which evolved from Bolt Watch. Thus Pure Poison is nothing more than Bolt Watch with a few other right-wing writers thrown in for the sake of variety. A quick look at the numbers confirms this.

Is this sad or funny?