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June 11, 2005
This is from a letter written by Gerard Henderson to Crikey after he'd been given the flick from his weekly column in The Age, which Henderson sees as 'The Guardian on the Yarra.'
"I have long held the view that The Age is the most left-wing newspaper in Australia --in a sense, its culture is set by Michael Leunig":
And this is is Crikey's Christian Kerr on Leung:
"...the Leunig metaphor is perfect. Mawkish, self-pitying, saccharine-sentimental pseudo-Christian socialist (don't want to be too Christian though--that's not PC) nonsense dressed up as touching profundity. Complete bollocks, in other words. Worse, it's utterly Melbourne-centric nonsense. Why the Sydney Morning Herald runs Leunig is anyone's guess. Presumably it's a cost saving measure---that other great Fairfax tradition."
What Kerr's criticism misses is the wit.
The above cartoon does express the droll humor of the anti-green agrarian socialists who love state paternalism during a drought. Of course, Crikey is a right wing capitalist outfit in love with the free market and wealth creation, and deeply hostile to the very idea of sustainable living in an ecological sense.
Maybe Kerr does not have a sense of humor? Or is he just stirring to create controversy and put soem bite back into the new marshmellow Crikey?
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