Thread by @madameshawshank

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#GladysTheSuperSpreader has selected her earrings. Lippy & blush applied. Doesn’t spend as much time on her hair these days. Anyway, she’s ready as ever to do what she does best. Deflect from her culpability. The figures will be horrid, but she has her goto plan. 😉

Approach the mic, remove the mask, and make sure the first sentence has a “healthy” or “pleasing” in it. Then some melodramatic faux-empathy heartfelt blah blah. Hand you over to… and then we’ll take questions.

All the while hoping the others get the questions b/c timefilling

When it’s her turn every question is felt as a narcissistic injury, however she pulls herself together with her trusted can I just say please know well yeah no hideous word salad. Never. Ever. Addressing the crux of a question, for minutes she rambles as 🐑 stand by to attention

Day after day. Farces. Journalists either unwilling/without skill to cut her time-filling spin. On the rare occasions one tries, #SchoolmarmGladys “Please let me finish” & said journalist goes back to 🐑 mode

#ThisIsNotJournalism This is cowering.

To watch is disturbing.

Perhaps journalists could ask #GladysTheSuperSpreader incisive questions, & if within 15 seconds she hasn’t begun to answer the crux of the question the journalists start booing. As a Greek chorus

For weeks she has played every journalist as a 🎻
The contempt of “Last question”

Imagine for ONE second what the #MurdochGutterMedia hacks would do if #DanAndrews declared “Last question. Thanks everybody”, or at 11.46 after uttering a few minutes earlier “literally a war” blithely floated off off with a lighthearted “See you again tomorrow” #COVID19Aus

The #GladysTheSuperSpreader pressers are the antithesis of #DanAndrew pressers

Former have a sense of panic, spin, fear, unprofessionalism.

Latter a sense of urgency, compassion, understanding, courage, professionalism.

A tale of two cities

Given that Berejiklian & her “government” is mired in corruption #DearDaryl #TheShredder lying to #ICAC etc it should be no surprise that businesses were involved in the discussions re lockdown

Maybe a journalist might ask #GladysTheSuperSpreader to name at least 3 of them.

So as across the state the crisis worsens, the lives of millions of people affected..some horrifically..deaths..physical, mental, financial suffering.. ongoing trauma of long-Covid..will journalists step up? Will they? No questions where she can gaslight. 🔦🔥she is culpable

Odds are that it will be yet another #ThePleaseKnowShow where she motormouths her way through “answers”

These pressers are already infamous. They’ll be written about in books.

Journalists are all we have. To shine a spotlight on the gross, if not criminal, negligence of them.

On the off chance #BradHazzard deigns to make an appearance, journalists be on your guard. He spins extremely well, as you stand by as 🐑 as he timefills with waffle. A glimpse of passive-aggression shows at times if a journalist picks him up.

Anyway.. 11 approaches ShowTime!

NSW by George Orwell

#GladysTheSuperSpreader #ScottyFromDamageControl #BradHazzard were FULLY AWARE #DeltaVariant highly contagious. They are culpable. Gross, if not the other, negligence. #LNPDisgrace #LNPfail #GladysFail #COVID19Aus #nswcovid #auspol

The ongoing trauma 😢