Ding! It’s Round 3 of Sheik Yer’Mami vs journalist Gavin King, and this time it seems the head of the Australian Press Council is without the will to punish King, but he’s more than ready to be accusatory in his mailed remarks to the Sheik. But he’s not accusing Gavin King –
Winds Of Jihad: Australian Press Council backs Gavin King, accuses Blogger of �no analogous consideration for the safety of the journalist � by Sheik yer’mami
Here’s a blurb from the above link to Sheik Yer’Mami’s full article on the most recent details:
Further it now appears that you have widened your campaign to include references on the website, not only to your opposition to the mosque proposal but to an attack on the by-lined journalist. You suggested in your original letter that you feared for your safety and that of your family as a result of the Post article. Yet you have indicated no analogous consideration for the safety of the journalist whose image and details you have published on the web. Instead of seeking to find a resolution to your concerns with the newspaper, through the Council, by completion of the waiver and the complaint form, you have sought a form of revenge on the journalist.
This is an outrageous attempt at equivalence. Sheik Yer’Mami’s life is in danger, and if this Australian Press Council wishes to try to equate that to Gavin King being outed as the betrayer he is, and perhaps getting a beating he deserves, then there’s something really rotten in the Press Rooms of Australia! Not to mention, considering that since it was I that lit the largest fire under these stories prior to it finally reaching Dhimmi Watch, the Australian Press Council might now like to accuse me? Please, I dare you to even intimate that I do not have the grounds to address this story in full. I had not only a right but a duty to show no more regard for Gavin King than he ever did for Sheik Yer’ Mami.
If it’s the truth the members of the Australian Press Council fear, then I suppose that’s why they are attempting to point fingers of blame at everyone besides Mr. King.
Perhaps Gavin King is just the symptom of a far worse problem in the Australian Press. I already know that too many members of American Journalism are out-of-whack, but now I guess I’ve learned that this isn’t necessarily a situation unique to the U.S. of A.
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Journalism has become the last refuge of scoundrels. People used to knock the National Enquirer but compared to what passes for journalism today those were they days.
I find it laughable that Gavin King is being equated with the Sheik.
Who will threaten King? King is scum, pandering to lowlifes-nobody will bother him. Meanwhile, the Sheik will have to watch his back for the forseeable future because he tells it like it is. What a depraved world we live in.
Foehammer, keep up the good work! I wish the world had more people like you and the Sheik. King is a wanker “journalist”, which takes neither intelligence nor hard work.
Great work FH!
The response Sheik received is disgusting. They are trying to deflect all responsibility.
I am really glad this story has made your site, LGF and JWDW as well as Sheik’s site.
Things are ramping up and we need to know who we can count on. The MSM will one day be identified as true collaborators as this is exactly what they are doing. Our precious western democracies are in grave danger, and we can thank people like this GK and his paper as well as the islamofacists.
I just can’t wait to see what the next phase of this turns into. I feel that Sheik should sue, but the problem then is that it will force his identity further out into the open.
Journalists today try to make themselves part of the story. That’s the problem with Gavin King, and it’s been the problem with far too many news-hounds since Watergate.
You have a good point there, FH.
It has restrained me from emailing it to other MSM ‘blogs like Andrew Bolt’s ‘blog.
The ony thing is that people who get this newspaper would already know about Sheik.He needs a top Australian barrister but since most are lefties,,would one trust them?
Fox News frequently has its credibility questioned based on certain stakeholders that may find such a story ‘offensive’. I wonder if the Australian Press does not share the same sickness. I’ll bet David Hicks is a hero to them.
Geoff,
Hicks is a traitor to me and many Aussies.<