Chris Kenny is a journalist who points out Rupert Murdoch is news corp is an unbiased news organisation while the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is left wing and should be shut down.
Now recently in Australia there are proposals to modify our Hate speech laws in particular reference to the racial discrimination act.
Here is Kenny's opinion piece on the issue and I have quoted the pertinent parts.
So I guess if bigots have the right to be bigots, satirists can have the right to be satirists as well and make fun of Chris Kenny too right? Right?Most Australians would agree the Egyptian government is exerting brutish force in order to control the flow of information, restrict media access and shape the public version of events.
Journalists, politicians, academics and members of the public from all walks of life and all political allegiances have argued that Greste and his colleagues should be freed.
They are right. The issue at stake is freedom of expression.
At the same time in a case much less personally pressing but nonetheless more important to the free expression of ideas in this country, Tony Abbott and his Attorney-General, George Brandis, have unveiled a plan to moderate an existing restriction on free speech.
Yet most of the media, and much of the political class, have railed against it.
Labor and the Greens, as well as some vertebrae-challenged elements of the Liberal Party, oppose the proposed changes to the RDA declaring, effectively, that we need the government to control what sort of speech is allowable.
The differences between the Greste case and the RDA changes are vast, and I don’t want to labour the comparison.
But the principle that links them is undeniable.
Free speech is important. It is the most fundamental right; forming the very foundation of the democratic society that underpins all the freedom and prosperity we enjoy.
Yet many of the people who protest for Greste actively argue against freer speech on racial issues here.
The political and media critics – ever willing to trivialise the side of the debate they disagree with – have made hay out of Brandis’s declaration that people have the “right to be a bigot”.
Yet for all the clumsiness of that line, which was easily misinterpreted as endorsing bigotry, the point the Attorney was making is true and important.
Well, maybe not.
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Well some of the Chaser team weren't gutless like the ABC director and here was their response. (Click on the link above to see the pics).ABC boss Mark Scott apologises to The Australian’s Chris Kenny over Chaser skit depicting him having sex with a dog
THE Managing Director of the ABC has apologised to The Australian columnist Chris Kenny for a Chaser team skit that depicted him having sex with a dog.
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Mr Kenny started defamation proceedings against the ABC, Chaser presenter Andrew Hansen and production company Giant Dwarf after they refused to apologise for the skit was broadcast on The Hamster Decides in September last year.
1. When one talks up free speech and lets those who disagree with him have their say, they are a free speech advocate. When one talks up free speech for himself but demands others moderate it, without once seeing the blatant hypocrisy, then he is a free speech wanker. Kenny falls into that category.Chaser member Julian Morrow responded to Mr Scott’s apology on Twitter.
Morrow, executive producer on The Hamster Decides, tweeted an image of Mr Scott having sex with a hamster.
2. Time and time again, those particularly on the Right who claim "I may not agree with what you say, but I defend your right to say it," really mean "I will defend your right to say it, only if I don't find it too offensive."
3. The Chaser utilises these type of skits before (once to mock the gay marriage leads to bestiality claim for example) and I wouldn't have remembered this if Kenny didn't bring it up. The funniest thing about this episode, is not the bestiality jokes against Kenny. Its his blatant hypocrisy. Patrick Deagan was right. Sometimes the comedy just writes itself.
