Citizen journalists in the rat-filled sewers of Twitter, take a bow!

Once again, you have highlighted your key role in news reporting in this country, given the tragic state of disrepair – read deliberate anti-Labor bias – across almost all the mainstream media.

We are referring, of course, to last week’s parliamentary circus surrounding Michelle Landry and how the bulk of the MSM immediately saw it as a chance to sink the boot into Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. That is their role, after all. Right? Gotta make sure this Labor government is a one-termer, right?

The journo warriors of Twitter went down a different path; they either watched Question Time last Thursday live and decided immediately that Landry’s claims she had been bullied and humiliated by Albanese were absolute total fucking bullshit, or they waited just a while until the tape of the QT exchange made it online, watched it and decided immediately that Landry’s claims she had been bullied and humiliated by Albanese were absolute total fucking bullshit.

What’s that adage about journalism that goes something like this: A journo’s job is not just to report that someone says it’s raining; they need to look out the window and see for themselves,

The Twitterverse lit up with brilliant attacks by many who “looked out the window” on the LNP pollie women who cooked up Landry’s sham, faux-outrage, presser and our tweet-of-the-week judges couldn’t go past the offering above from the wonderful Ronni Salt who compared their orchestrated, over-the-top outrage to the real tears some First Nation MPs shed and shared in the House of Reps over the alleged murder of Perth 15-year-old schoolboy Cassius Turvey.

The ever-reliable Ronni used separate tweets to addressed some very clever and relevant questions to alleged journalist David Crowe who abrogated his duties as a professional scribe and instinctively sunk the boot into Albanese. If Crowe is a fucking journalist, The Bug’s tweet judges have eight Gold Walkleys on their collective mantelpieces!

Note the time on Crowe’s tweet. 6.03pm. Anyone interested in the truth knew exactly what that was by 6.03pm. They had looked out the window.

Sadly, Crowe was not the only one who left the tarnished craft of journalist down, if not Peter Costello.

Newscorpse, the organisation that used to put out newspapers, was just as bad and over at Aunty, Stan Grant hours after the Question Time tape had spurned almost universal Twitter scorn at Landry and her LNP ladies, was still pushing the “poor Michelle was stared at and shouted at by Albo” bullshit line. We at The Bug don’t give a fuck what Grant calls himself as long as it isn’t journalist.

Not all in the MSM were fooled or followed protocols. And seeing we often make fun of Peter van Onselen, here’s credit where credit is due. Peter looked out the window.

Okay, back to our Twitter citizen journo warriors. Here’s just a taste of those who used their eyes and ears to expose this cooked-up, claptrap by a bunch of coalition clowns desperately seeking relevance for exactly what it was.

And one final offering from Ronni…

The Bug‘s final comment: Despite what all of the above has clearly exposed, the bulk of Australia’s mainstream mediocre political fuckerati will continue to believe they are beyond reproach and, as God’s gift to journalism, will continue to sneer, with not a gecko turd’s weight of evidence to support such arrogant dismissals – at those on Twitter who have been forced to step in and do their fucking job.

SEWER RATS OF TWITTER UNITE!