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Flat White

The day The Sydney Morning Herald turned into New Idea

8 January 2018

11:00 AM

8 January 2018

11:00 AM

This is it. The point of no return. There’s no going back. The once-mighty Sydney Morning Herald — and its Melbourne sister too — have turned into bimbo magazines.

Part of it’s accidental. They’re obsessed with identity politics, so they’re obsessed with victims.

They’ve deliberately cultivated a readership among insecure, inadequate young women who perversely gain validation, express their identities, find their sense of (I guess we have to call it this) self-worth by blaming all their fears and failures on deep-rooted societal structures that do them down, who identify as victims — not out of any sense of solidarity with the true victims...

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