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'''Tim Blair''' (born 1965) is an Australian editor, journalist,<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1698903.htm?queensland "Richard Fidler interviews Tim Blair, ABC Radio, 28 July 2006"]</ref> political commentator and |
'''Tim Blair''' (born 1965) is an Australian editor, journalist,<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1698903.htm?queensland "Richard Fidler interviews Tim Blair, ABC Radio, 28 July 2006"]</ref> political commentator and blogger. |
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In mid-2001, he began blogging at Blogspot. By 2004, Blair had attracted a significant following, the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' describing him as a "top dog among the new Australian [[digerati]]" who "some days draws more than 20,000 readers to his website."<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/05/1096949512606.html "Shooting for top dog in cyber town"], Brigid Delaney, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 6 October 2004</ref> In addition to running his blog, Blair was previously a news editor and regular columnist for the now-defunct ''[[The Bulletin]]''. He has also worked as a journalist and senior editor at ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Truth (Sydney newspaper)|Truth]]'' and ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', and has also written for ''[[Fox News]]''. Blair has also appeared on [[4BC]], [[Radio National]] and the ABC programme ''[[Insiders (TV program)|Insiders]]''. |
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Blair was raised and educated in [[Werribee]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. He began a journalism cadetship in 1988 at the now-defunct ''[[The Truth (Melbourne newspaper)|Truth]]'' newspaper in [[Melbourne]]. He went on to become its editor, the youngest person ever to hold the position. In mid-2001, he began blogging at Blogspot. By 2004, Blair had attracted a significant following, the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' describing him as a "top dog among the new Australian [[digerati]]" who "some days draws more than 20,000 readers to his website."<ref> |
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[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/05/1096949512606.html "Shooting for top dog in cyber town"], Brigid Delaney, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 6 October 2004</ref> In 2006, his relocated blog, timblair.net, was voted second "Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog" in the 2006 Weblog Awards.<ref> |
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[http://2006.weblogawards.org/2006/12/best_australia_or_new_zealand_blog.php The 2006 Weblog Awards — Best Australia or New Zealand Blog]</ref> Today, Blair's blog is located on the Daily Telegraph website. |
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In addition to running his blog, Blair is the opinion editor for the Sydney ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]]'',<ref> |
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[http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/employment_news/ "Employment News"], TimBlair.net, 20 November 2006</ref> |
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where he also writes a weekly column. He was previously a news editor and regular columnist for the now-defunct ''[[The Bulletin]]''. He has also worked as a journalist and senior editor at ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Truth (Sydney newspaper)|Truth]]'' and ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',<ref> |
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[http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/just_for_the_record/#288976 "Just for the record"], TimBlair.net, 2 September 2007</ref> and has also written for ''[[Fox News]]''. Blair has also appeared on [[4BC]], [[Radio National]] and the ABC programme ''[[Insiders (TV program)|Insiders]]''. |
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==Personal life== |
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Blair supports the [[Collingwood Football Club]] and lives in [[Surry Hills, New South Wales]]. He is married. In January 2008, Blair announced on his blog that he had [[abdominal cancer]]<ref name=TB080114>{{cite web |
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|url=http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/a_visit_to_the_infirmary/ |
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|title=A Visit to the Infirmary |
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|author=Tim Blair |publisher=TimBlair.net |date=14 January 2008}}</ref> |
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and wrote about his impending surgery (and encouragement from [[Tony Snow]]) in a newspaper column.<ref>{{cite web |
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|title=Grit your teeth and grab that devil by the throat |
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|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/grabbing-devil-by-the-throat/story-e6frezz0-1111115349877 |
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|author=Tim Blair |publisher=''The Daily Telegraph'' |date=19 January 2008}}</ref> |
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The surgery was successful and Blair went into remission.<ref name=TB080114/><ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/recovery_update/ |
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|title=Recovery Update |
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|author=Tim Blair |publisher=TimBlair.net |date=5 February 2008}}</ref> |
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==Politics== |
==Politics== |
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Starting a few days after [[George W. Bush]]'s visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving 2003, Blair has documented and disproved claims that a roast turkey that Bush was photographed holding up was plastic. |
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Blair is known for his [[conservatism|conservative]] political views. He is critical of '[[Islamofascism]]' and those he considers climate change alarmists and hypocrites. He has criticised the work of other journalists and bloggers, including [[Margo Kingston]], and writers [[Elizabeth Farrelly]], [[Mike Carlton]], [[Terry Lane]], [[Mark Lawson]], Tracee Hutchison of ''[[The Age]],'' and [[Robert Fisk]]. Politician [[Al Gore]] and cartoonist [[Michael Leunig]] are also regular targets. In contrast, Blair frequently quotes writers such as [[Mark Steyn]], [[James Lileks]] and [[Andrew Bolt]] with approval. |
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The roast turkey was real.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7DE113BF932A25754C0A9629C8B63|title=Corrections |date=11 July 2004 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''}}</ref> |
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Starting a few days after [[George W. Bush]]'s visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving 2003, Blair has documented and disproved claims that a roast turkey that Bush was photographed holding up was plastic.<ref> |
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{{cite web |
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|url=http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005278.php |
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|title=The Guardian's Plastic Turkey |
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|date=7 December 2003 |publisher=TimBlair.Spleenville.com |author=Tim Blair}}</ref><ref> |
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{{cite web |
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|url=http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/turkey_roll/ |
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|title=Turkey Roll |
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|publisher=TimBlair.net |author=Tim Blair |date=31 August 2006}}</ref><ref> |
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|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-and-the-turkey-role/story-e6frezz0-1111113168235 |
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|title=Rudd and the turkey role |
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|author=Tim Blair |publisher=''The Daily Telegraph'' |date=17 March 2007}}</ref><ref> |
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{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/as_we_all_know/ |
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|title=As We All Know |
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|author=Tim Blair (blog post) |publisher=''The Daily Telegraph'' |date=11 May 2011}}</ref> |
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The roast turkey was real.<ref>{{cite news |
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|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E7DE113BF932A25754C0A9629C8B63 |
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|title=Corrections |date=11 July 2004 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''}}</ref> |
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===Blair's Law=== |
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Some bloggers{{who|date=February 2018}} use the term "Blair's Law" to describe a theoretical alliance or shared empathy between [[far right]] groups, [[far left]] groups and extremist [[islamism|Islamists]]. In 2002, Blair described this supposed alliance as an "ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force".<ref> |
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[http://timblair.blogspot.com/2002_05_19_archive.html#76862981 Post by Tim Blair (at an earlier blog)], 23 May 2002</ref> The phrase has been adopted and embraced by several conservative and [[libertarianism|libertarian]] bloggers.<ref> |
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20020816093131/http://blogsofwar.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_blogsofwar_archive.html#76576518 "Ted Rall, David Duke, Robert Fisk, Lyndon LaRouche, al-Ahram, Hitler, Noam Chomsky, Blair's Law, the Arab News, and Me"], [[Frank Portman]], ''Blogs of War'', 15 May 2002</ref><ref> |
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[http://sixdaysmore.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-i-am-not-celebrating-todays-news.html "Why I am not Celebrating Today's News from Austria"], Ben Ze'ev, ''Six Days'' blog, 21 February 2006</ref><ref> |
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[http://eddriscoll.com/archives/009551.php "It's Not Just A Good Idea, It's Blair's Law"], Ed Driscoll, 4 September 2006</ref><ref> |
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[http://rwdb.blogspot.com/2006/12/idiots-of-feather.html "Idiots of a Feather..."], J. F. Beck, ''RWDB'' blog, 12 December 2006</ref> |
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==Controversy== |
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=== Criticism of Failure to Censor Racist Comments === |
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In 2007, ''[[Media Watch (TV program)|Media Watch]]'', an [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] TV program which Blair has often criticised, stated that ''The Daily Telegraph'', other newspapers and Blair failed to censor racist comments on their websites.<ref> |
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[http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1954733.htm "Have Your Spray"], [[Media Watch (TV program)|Media Watch]], 18 June 2007</ref> |
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Blair and the ''Telegraph'' reported that ''Media Watch'' had themselves failed to censor antisemitic comments at their own website,<ref> |
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[http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/prejudice_expressed/ "Prejudice Expressed"], Tim Blair, ''timblair.net'', 19 June 2007 |
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</ref><ref> |
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[http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21959678-10388,00.html "Media Watch fails racism test"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'', 25 June 2007</ref> |
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and that their story relied on "unacknowledged assistance"<ref> |
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[http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/friends_of_the_abc/ "Friends of the ABC"], Tim Blair, ''timblair.net'', 25 June 2007</ref> |
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from "Muslim Village, [a website which] is guilty itself of publishing offensive comments".<ref> |
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[http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/antoinette_helped/ "Antoinette Helped"], Tim Blair, ''timblair.net'', 27 June 2007</ref> |
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The ABC later launched an internal inquiry into ''Media Watch'''s dealings with Muslim Village.<ref> |
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[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22058577-7582,00.html "Media Watch's jihadi sources"], Richard Kerbaj, ''[[The Australian]]'', 12 July 2007</ref> |
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=== Retractions === |
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In March 2009, Pure Poison, a blog hosted by online media site [[Crikey]], alleged that Blair "comments under a pseudonym on his blog and various other blogs" and was "unprofessional in his conduct as a journalist".<ref name=Crikey100412>{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2010/04/12/crikey-apologises-to-tim-blair/ |
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|title=Crikey Apologises to Tim Blair |
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|date=12 April 2010 |publisher=Crikey}}</ref> |
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Both Pure Poison and Crikey issued a partial retraction a few days later. In April 2010, Pure Poison and Crikey fully retracted their report and apologised,<ref name=Crikey100412/> after Blair commenced legal action.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/journalism_in_the_age_of_crikey/ |
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|title=Journalism in the Age of Crikey |
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|author=Tim Blair |date=2 March 2009 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}} |
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Blair subsequently accepted a confidential settlement.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/mr-john-keeps-his-reputation-20100413-s59m.html |
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|title=Blair bitch project |
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|author=Sean Nicholls and Leesha McKenny |date=13 April 2010 |publisher=''Sydney Morning Herald''}} |
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</ref> |
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In August 2010, Crikey amended an online article, written by Guy Rundle, that "misrepresented the views of Tim Blair and [[Andrew Bolt]]", admitting that "references to them were offensive and indefensible."<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/crikey_regrets/ |
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|title=Crikey Regrets |
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|author=Tim Blair |date=28 August 2010 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}}</ref> |
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=== Left-wing Frightbats === |
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On 17 June 2014 Tim Blair published a blog post titled 'Crown Our Crazy Queen', which asked his readers to vote for 'Who is Australia’s craziest left-wing frightbat?', out of a choice of various Australian feminist columnists, writers and activists. The 'winner' was [[Van Badham|Vanessa Badham]], a columnist for [[The Guardian]]. <ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/crown_our_crazy_queen/ |
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|title='Crown Our Crazy Queen' |
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|author=Tim Blair |date=17 June 2014 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}}</ref> |
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This episode triggered a storm of controversy, including responses from the 'frightbats' Blair had nominated. <ref>{{cite web |
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|url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/when-they-call-us-frightbats-they-make-us-fair-game|title=When they call us 'frightbats', they make us fair game |
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|author= [[Van Badham|Vanessa Badham]]|date= 2 July 2014|publisher=''[[The Guardian]]'' blogs}}</ref> |
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<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= https://theconversation.com/be-very-worried-tim-blair-we-are-all-frightbats-now-28148|title=Be very worried, Tim Blair – we are all frightbats now |
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|author= [[Jenna Price]]|date= 18 June 2014|publisher=''[[The Conversation]]'' blogs}}</ref> |
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<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://www.smh.com.au/comment/feminist-frightbat-campaign-just-the-blair-witch-project-20140625-zskyz.html|title=Feminist frightbat campaign just the Blair Witch project |
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|author= [[Elizabeth Farrelly]]|date= 26 June 2014 |publisher=''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' blogs}}</ref> |
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<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/item/4182-what-is-a-frightbat-the-search-for-australia-s-most-unhinged-hysteric|title=What is a 'frightbat'? The search for Australia's ‘most unhinged hysteric’ |
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|author= Georgina Dent |date= 18 June 2014 |publisher=''Women's Agenda'' blogs}}</ref> |
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Blair responded to the controversy by stating that "When you describe hysterical crazy people as crazy and hysterical, it creates hysterical craziness." <ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/frightbattery_fury/ |title=Frightbattery Fury |
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|author=Tim Blair |date=19 June 2014 |publisher=''Daily Telegraph'' blogs}}</ref> He has since made the "frightbat poll" an annual event.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Blair|first1=Tim|title=Faking it|url=http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2017/09/74580/|website=Quadrant Online|publisher=Quadrant|accessdate=26 September 2017}}</ref> |
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=== Allegation of Transgender Vilification === |
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In January 2017, Blair published a blog article on the website of the [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]] concerning a transwoman subsequently convicted of a violent axe attack in a Sydney suburb. In September 2018, the [[NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal]] considered whether the article constituted unlawful vilification through its references to the attacker's transgender status. ref>https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/5b9ef377e4b0b9ab4020fa95</ref> The Tribunal ultimately concluded that, whilst "close to the line", the article did not reach the threshold for vilification.<ref>https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/5b9ef377e4b0b9ab4020fa95</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 17:40, 27 November 2018
Tim Blair (born 1965) is an Australian editor, journalist,[1] political commentator and blogger.
In mid-2001, he began blogging at Blogspot. By 2004, Blair had attracted a significant following, the Sydney Morning Herald describing him as a "top dog among the new Australian digerati" who "some days draws more than 20,000 readers to his website."[2] In addition to running his blog, Blair was previously a news editor and regular columnist for the now-defunct The Bulletin. He has also worked as a journalist and senior editor at Time, Truth and Sports Illustrated, and has also written for Fox News. Blair has also appeared on 4BC, Radio National and the ABC programme Insiders.
Politics
Starting a few days after George W. Bush's visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving 2003, Blair has documented and disproved claims that a roast turkey that Bush was photographed holding up was plastic. The roast turkey was real.[3]
References
- ^ "Richard Fidler interviews Tim Blair, ABC Radio, 28 July 2006"
- ^ "Shooting for top dog in cyber town", Brigid Delaney, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2004
- ^ "Corrections". The New York Times. 11 July 2004.
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External links
- Tim Blair Blog - The Daily Telegraph (May 2008)
- Tim Blair's weblog - archive only since move to Daily Telegraph Site
- Right Wing News - The Tim Blair Interview (April 2002)