So, far-right winger Lachlan Murdoch and presumably his far-right winger dad (main picture) are a tad put out that Australian online news site Crikey has pointed out what all but apparently two people in the world believe to be the cause-and-effect link between the US Capitol riots and the constant barrage of far-right wing pro-Donald Trump propaganda spewed out by the far-right wing Murdoch-owned Fox News network.

Murdoch junior has launched a defamation suit in the Federal Court of Australia against Crikey for its published suggestion.

Good luck trying to find details of it in any Murdoch-owned news outlet.

The argument is shaping up as a must-watch event – perhaps worthy of livestreaming on the far-right wing Sky News here in Oz or the far-right wing Fox News in the US.

We suggest that if Crikey feels financially outgunned by the mighty global corporate and personal resources (there’s very little difference between the two) of the Murdoch clan or News Crap International, they may feel the need to launch a public fundraising campaign.

If they are contemplating something like that we also suggest they immediately start talking to internet celebrity Celeste Barber of bushfire appeal fame to learn some lessons of how to handle a massively oversubscribed fundraising campaign.

Our scrupulously independent MGH researchers are ready to make donations – on a strictly personal basis of course – and they are pretty sure Kevin Rudd already has his cheque book open.

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Over many decades consumers of news in its hard-copy, electronic, and online forms have grown accustomed to the changing manner in which previously unprintable words – usually four-letter ones – are presented.

Our Media Glass House teams often see expressions such as “sh-t” or “sh*t” to signify the presence of “shit” within a quotation being reported or as a description being applied by the author of a news or feature article.

They have also become relaxed about seeing “f..k” or “f—k” or even “f**k” in similar circumstances as well as derivates like “f**ked” or “f**king”.

These types of constructions are used by media outlets who decide that their readers are likely to be offended if they read the actual words “shit” or “fuck”. They do the same with the four-letter “c-word” better known to the likes of you and us as “cunt”.

But up until now our MGH teams have taken for granted the fact that the sanitised versions of such words give readers the clue about their true identity and that readers themselves can fill in the blanks.

That is until last Saturday when The Weekend Australian introduced our researchers, and indeed the world, to a new way of handling such words.

It carried a front-page story spilling to page 8 (below) that canvassed the experience of a 20-something and their experience with the process of transitioning genders.

What interested our MGH teams the most was the Weekend Oz’s presentation of what was clearly the use of “fucked” in quotes by the young man in question when he was referring to his “fucked up” relationships and the “fucked up” processes he experienced.

The Weekend Australian printed the word in a sanitised way but for some reason insisted on using “f.ked”.

Our MGH teams ask why sub-editors would drop one of the four letters of the root (in more ways than one) word.

The simplest answer is that the person responsible just can’t spell. But our researchers still fear that readers may well have been confused and could have spent considerable time trying to work out the identity of the censored word. Is it “faked”? Or did the young man being interviewed actually say “f-dot-ked”?

Our researchers wish to send a message to the person at The Weekend Oz who made the decision to present the word in such a manner: You really fucked it up. Cunt.

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We can’t resist a poke at those at ABC News Online for a blue in their coverage yesterday of the retirement of America’s infectious diseases supremo Dr Anthony Fauci.

The story noted that Dr Fauci was leaving government service after more than 50 years of working in his chosen field.

Unfortunately the pointer to the full story sold him somewhat short by telling readers that the good doctor had served the US “for over half a decade”. (below)

Yes, yes, we know that people who live in glass houses etc etc…. How the hell did you think we arrived at the name of this column?