September 29, 2007
I've missed Pryor's cartoons. For some reason the Canberra Times doesn't put them online these days . That's a pity because Pryor's work has a bite that is often missing from the work of the other Australian cartoonists.

Pryor
It certainly makes makes some of the Canberra Press Gallery look like fluff pieces. Some of the political press at the right-wing noise machine----News Ltd---are saying that Rudd had another bad week, making it two in row; that Rudd is under pressure as his day of reckoning approaches; and that the political wobbles are caused by the Coalition targeting Rudd's glass jaw. So says Clinton Porteous in the Courier Mail. The coalition is catching up to Rudd as his lead narrows.
Give me Pryor any day to that kind of "political journalism" with its mind-numbing obsession with "horse race" analysis. The prose of the sophisticated insider political types is to prattle on in a speculative and gossipy manner about whether Howard and Rudd are winning and losing.
Have you noticed that these kind of pundits believe that they are representative of, and express, what most "ordinary Australians " believe? These pundits support the Howard agenda, the Canberra power system and the Canberra power brokers. In feeding off Canberra year after year these political journalists become appendages of it and vigorous defenders of nothing other than the Canberra system.
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Gary,
Race horse analysis is largely what the punters want in this "Election of the Stars" but how do you feel about that this election is the first without the Packer influence. Kerry I think delivered up the Leaping Numbats to the highest bidder and he did it for both sides. Some of the uncertainty out there could be attributed to the De-Packerization of this election.