Can I ask a simple question? Why would someone like that want to work for the Herald Sun??? And vice versa, why would the Herald Sun want an employee like that??? I find it hard to believe that the Herald Sun is the fish wrapper of choice amongst the student sapphic set…

Yo i’ve been reading this site for a while and whoever writes these articles has a real sordid pre-occupation with the sexuality of Victorian university students.

May i suggest getting laid so you don’t write in such an embarrassingly breathless fashion about anything relating to sex?

Was identifying her and trying to humiliate her for her background necessarily?

Very tabloid dude. Why do it?

Grotty.

Because Mr Vex is a nasty little piece of work who thinks that hack character assassination makes him some Machiavellian operative.

For what it’s worth, “How to be my Girlfriend” was a refreshing read about the passion of young infatuation, just the thing i needed after this grubby garbage

Whoops, wrong name, sorry Shayne

“How to be my girlfriend” was a fictional piece dickheads !

hehe… I just read the offending piece via Tim Blair (who probably got it from the Oz or VEX).

Naming her was not required, as I already had a vivid picture in my mind’s eye… this piece from VEX merely re-enforced the stereotypical image I had already confirmed… 10 out of 10 :-)

she’s kinnda cute !

You realise that this is the most childish response that could have resulted from this entire ordeal… Right? What the fuck does a camel have to do with anything? You need to grow the hell up and deal with some negative feedback once in a while, its going to fucking happen. So fucking ridiculous.

Is this meant to be a Herald Sun article? Terrible pun in the headline that has no relevance to the article and is included only for the sake of including a pun, check. Unnecessary identification of an anonymous author, check. Complete misrepresentation of sources out of context (old Farrago article), check. Irrelevant information (school background) included only to provoke prejudices, check. Homophobic stereotypes, check. Well done, VEXNEWS, congratulations for ignoring the message of Anonymous and turning it into a personal attack instead. You wonder why Anonymous is jaded.

It takes quite a feat of journalistic acrobatics to turn someones stance against discrimination into the victimisation of the Herald Sun. I think Sasha showed some great courage and integrity to stand up against attitudes she found unacceptable, despite doing so only resulting in negative results for her (this garbage article, penalisation from the university i’d imagine, future career prospects etc etc).
That the Australian feels the need to respond about a student magazine article, and this piece that attacks the lowest common denominator (you only need to take the time to read the links to rebuke most of the authors claims) to reinforce a stereotype, shows that Sasha has obviously got under their skin. Good on her

heh the herald sun is a horrible decrepit seeping cesspool of everything that is wrong with the world i hope that soon the whole edifice burns to the ground good worjk everyone :)

So the stuff that you couldn’t find (her name, pictures of her and her friends and family) and use to reinforce negative stereotypes, you just made up?

“Because she’d tell all her friends she’s all for transparency, disclosure and Julian Assange, we’re happy revealing her identity after extensive discussion among the VEXNEWS Ethical Standards Board.” – What does this even mean? Are you just making this up?

“Her haircut has been inspired by an artist known as Skrillex” – What? Where does this even come from? Are you being intentionally ignorant?

I could go on about how terrible you are at writing, like your apparent misunderstanding of the difference between fiction and non-fiction, but this article is so vile and ignorant that I would waste my day.

That Camel’s really pretty

It’s a sad day when a second year journalism student can write a more thought provoking piece than her would-be mentors. This piece of trash simply validates her criticisms.

Oh great, just what the world needs. Another privileged brat with Mummy and Daddy issues who flicks the switch to angry dyke mode at Uni.
Boring.

If you don’t want your daughter to become a revolting dyke, don’t let her enrol at Melb Uni. The Gender Studies professors get performance bonuses (new carpets) for converting as many hetero’s as possible.

If there was no truth to her articles why get so butthurt? With people like BILL Calvin and chris being pro this piece and so blatantly homophobic you can keep those fans.
I’d like to know how her haircut has to do with anything? Stroll anywhere on the northside and you’ll see plenty of similar chops.

She wrote an anonymous article yet you choose to expose her and use pictures of her on your website to make you look good? You’re just proving her point.

um this is clearly harassment of an individual’s sexuality and opinion. there is no need to attack someone who views the herald as sexist and homophobic because, hang on a second, MAYBE THEY ARE, JUST LIKE YOU. fucking asshole.

Vexnews is caught up its own hetero-normative, free-market bigotry. How dare a womyn express an opinion out of sync with the swinging male phallus of the News Corporation.

What is the News Corporation’s links to Vexnews?

Did the News Corporation hackers illegally obtain the private photographs that were never authorised for the public space?

This is vilification of the other by an unidentified author we can assume is an instrument of patriarchy.

I won’t be back.

I disagree with much of what the original article says. I found myself giving my computer screen an incredulous look when I read she was angry men were being polite to her. And as a gay man, I don’t really give a stuff what some dumb ass reporters might be saying to their peers about me; it’s their work I’m interested in, not how they may disagree with my rights. I get where she’s coming from, though: there should be a sense of professionalism in the workplace and making Catholic jokes is not professional.

BUT. I have found this rebuttal piece to be among the lowest standards of reporting I have ever read. “Naming and shaming” this girl has done and will do nothing for The Herald Sun but decrease their readership. Good luck with that.

This is childish and victimising. Wow, you really are a piece of shit.

Not only is this sexist and extremely homophobic and unnecessarily name-shaming a woman for having an opinion differing to yours, therefore making you look like you work at a cheap tabloid newspaper (lets be honest, Herald Sun is pretty much under that umbrella as well). Posting online images from a private facebook as well as my own personal photography page (see the last image, it is copyrighted with Laura Du Ve Photography) is illegal without getting a release form showing consent from I, myself, the photographer to use this image on your website. Remove it immediately or I will have to take secondary action.

Didn’t know VEXNEWS was run by a bunch of high school mean girls!

This is not a news article. This is a poorly written, poorly thought out, vindictive bulleted list of absurdities. There are jumps in logic so large that it hardly deserves to be called logic. There are crass and offensive generalizations and name-calling which is hauntingly reminiscent of high school. And the fact that you felt the need to expose her identity and post her pictures to bring some sort of closure or feeling of accomplishment from writing this ghastly article shows just how little merit this actually holds.

She stood up for what she believed was right, calling attention to what she believes is unjust. Is that not was journalists are called to do?

She is a student, only studying journalism, and her article offered more than this one could even dream of. She provided a well thought out article which could spark some discussion. This, however, is an immature attack of angsty-teen-proportions.

She offended you didn’t she vexnews? You felt cornered so you attatcked.. you didn’t defend… You balls out attacked her… I understand, you allowed your righteous Indignation get the best of you and you let fly a sermon of personal hate and every quip probably felt like a body blow landed.. but the second you decided to go after her you instantly affoaded her and her article more creedence and exposure than it would have emassed of its own volition.. and what’s your endgame? To defend the herald suns rep as chivalrous larikans ? To dispute the assertions regarding the culture at the herald sun? Nope… You pretty much reinforced this girls claims and did it infront of a bigger audience… I mean whoever was in charge of this obviously wasn’t thinking straight or is sadly just an idiot…. Do u know what would have been a better response? A small article saying you respectfully disagree with her smalltime uni mag article but by the same token are willing to meet her if she would like to have a real say on the issues she raised; for the sake of improving the intern program… This way u won’t come off as petty, cruel fat cats attacking someone who should be under because it seems like u have something to hide

*under your radar*

Bloody hilarious guys. That dim lesbian is a perfect example of the idiot mentality of unemployable arts students. The parasites will be on the dole or working at the abc…same same.

PS Judging by the comments either Sasha is busy posting under several different names or the usual unwashed sheep are doing it for her. Either way it just adds to the hilarity.

Wow ‘Soph’, you must really hate yourself and have a hell of a lot of internalised misogyny to have that stance on this entire issue. How ignorant can you be? I’m actually embarrassed to share your gender

As for the article, it seems very ‘little man syndrome’. Overcompensating for something you creepy homophobic imbecile?

What a stupid and pointless article. What great truth are you revealing here other than your inability to report actual news? Sasha had every right to put forward her opinion, and to do so anonymously. Dissecting her school life, other irrelevant articles she’d written, and posting her private facebook photos is so low and completely overlooks the crux of this discussion.

I m really disgusted by the anti-lesbian attitudes in this article. Why is her sexual preference and haircut necessary for the discussion other than to denigrate and belittle a womyn. This is hatespeech of the kind that should also have Andrew Bolt in jail.

Look out Vex, the private school, angry dyke’s friends are trolling.

Rise above dudes. I get the team pride and all but are we not just giving her a whole bunch of free PR?

Were all the comments here written by the same person? Very strange but entertaining.

You genuinely think that a young female intern would feel safe bring up the extensive problematic experiences during her time at the Herald?
Especially to people she learnt over her time there were less than understanding and downright ignorant, re: “He? She? It?” “Therehas to be a photo of it” and “You should putthe heading—‘My Life As A She-Man!’ or‘G-Boy.’” No one in the newsroom reacted.”

Does the writer of this article/Editor of VEXNEWS care to respond to any of these comments? Will the writer declare him or herself to the world or continue to hide behind anonymous bylines and then expose and attack other anonymous writers. VEXNEWS is an absolute disgrace.

As the editor-in-chief of VEXNEWS my identity is well-known and displayed prominently on this site.

It is the policy of this august journal of truth and niceness that when a group of us work on a story we use a collective by-line. By-lines are a relatively recent feature of journalism, as those studying it perhaps ought to know.

As for responding to the rest of the comments above, my general view is that I should let people have their say, with as little meddling or interference from me or other VEX writers as possible.

If there are specific claims made that are worthy of response, we respond, like the suggestion that this is an anono-publication. It isn’t.

Ms Burden made a big mistake, in our view, and we have no problem calling her out for it.

It’s a mistake and breach of trust that could jeopardise the career opportunities of many people who might miss out on internships as a result of the damage done by Ms Burden.

Hopefully that will work itself out.

Her callous disregard for others is itself typical of our observations of the ultra-left, many of them talk of community but act self-indulgently.

The hypocrisy of it takes our breath away.

The truth is that nothing VEXNEWS writes can damn Ms Burden as much as what she wrote herself in all its anti-heteronormative glory.

We thought carefully about identifying her and stand by our decision to do so and to hold her to account for her public works, partly by examining whether she was also a beneficiary of ‘privilege’.

As -she was on her second internship at the Herald Sun, it seems her privilege knew no bounds. Few are so privileged, we understand.

She did work experience at the Herald Sun in 2007. It hasn’t changed much in that time, in our observation, despite a few personnel changes.

So how does she explain this enthusiasm to return to the place she so loathed?

We’ll never know because – having been bold in statement when protected by anonymity – she declines to comment now.

She has all the courage and morality of a drive-by shooter.

She has undermined the crucial trust relationship between intern and newspaper.

She is a selfish, nasty, vicious snitch.

And yes, you can quote me.

There is so much bullshit in the above statement that it is not worth my time analysing it. I hope I do hear you quoted in the future, preferably in a statement of claim.

Snitch is your choice of word? As in she saw what was said and then quoted it. As in you stole private photos even ones stamped with a watermark? You are so defensive it’s like you have something to hide.

this is the worst and most pointless article ive ever read purely designed to create a backlash against this individual. well done on using your ‘power’ to ‘name and shame’ someone who may have wanted to remain anonymous for any reason. she’s not a dodgy politician to expose she’s a young girl? whats the point?

I do have a question that I hope Andrew can answer: had this girl undertaken work experience at any other kind of place and written up a bad report, would a story have been written about her today? Would you bother “calling her out” (as you put it) if she told us the same story but changed the scenery from newspaper organisation to hospital?

[VEXNEWS: We really like the Herald Sun and many people within it. But when they refer to VEXNEWS they have rather too frequently called us a "gossip site" when most of them have seen just how many stories we break that are very well sourced and are very often vindicated in subsequent revelations and other outlets. Occasionally we even get the credit or blame! So are we biased in their favour? Ask their Alan Howe, a long-time Herald Sun columnist, who threatened to sue us last year for daring to criticise his public writing and private conduct. So is the principle the same, regardless of workplace? Sure. Did we give it more attention because it's a high-profile organisation like a newspaper? Of course we did.]

I stand by my comment that this piece is one of the most horrible forms of journalism out there. The Herald Sun is a business that will bounce back from her claims quite easily — you reacted out of fear that people were taking her seriously. Here, however, you made yourselves look like the dicks, not her.

Here’s hoping a fellow “nasty lefty” in the business appreciates her moxy and lands her a gig from this free PR you’ve given her. Good one.

[VEXNEWS: Yes, hopefully all this free PR will help her get a job at an organisation not burdened heteronormative assumptions or cissexism where loyalty to colleagues is not highly prized. If only The Age was hiring rather than firing...]

Wow, what a high class piece of journalism. You must be so proud of your ability to make a young girl feel like shit for expressing a valid opinion on your lack of ethics and equality. Lovely.

VEXNEWS is appropriately named, though the annoyance you provoke in me is not on the moralistic grounds you would suggest. My response:

“It is the policy of this august journal of truth” (wanker) “and niceness” (how on Earth is it ‘nice’ to name and shame a person who took a stand against discrimination in a manner provoking unfair prejudices?) “by then that when a group of us work on a story we use a collective by-line. By-lines are a relatively recent feature of journalism, as those studying it perhaps ought to know.” (I didn’t know that; I am not a journalist and did not purport to be one.)
“As for responding to the rest of the comments above, my general view is that I should let people have their say, with as little meddling or interference from me or other VEX writers as possible.” (In other words, you won’t address any reasonable criticism.)
“If there are specific claims made that are worthy of response, we respond, like the suggestion that this is an anono-publication. It isn’t.” (So what about the requests by copyright owners to remove images from this article?)
“Ms Burden made a big mistake, in our view, and we have no problem calling her out for it.” (Fair enough, I like many other here think your article is a mistake and are calling you out for it.)
It’s a mistake and breach of trust that could jeopardise the career opportunities of many people who might miss out on internships as a result of the damage done by Ms Burden.
Hopefully that will work itself out.
“Her callous disregard for others is itself typical of our observations of the ultra-left, many of them talk of community but act self-indulgently.” (Ummm, pot calling the kettle black?)
The hypocrisy of it takes our breath away.
“The truth is that nothing VEXNEWS writes can damn Ms Burden as much as what she wrote herself in all its anti-heteronormative glory.” (If this is true, then why did you feel the desire to so publicly and horribly expose her? What were you hoping to achieve?)
“We thought carefully about identifying her and stand by our decision to do so and to hold her to account for her public works, partly by examining whether she was also a beneficiary of ‘privilege’.
As -she was on her second internship at the Herald Sun, it seems her privilege knew no bounds. Few are so privileged, we understand.” (What information do you actually have about this claimed ‘privilege’ of Ms Burden? You make a lot of assumptions about one simple fact of which school she attended and her achievements in gaining work experience and an internship. Is she privileged? Is her family rich? Do her parents have powerful connections? Do you know anything about her, or are you making wide assumptions based on some minor facts that can only be extrapolated through stereotypes? I don’t know the answers myself, but I question your information.)
She did work experience at the Herald Sun in 2007. It hasn’t changed much in that time, in our observation, despite a few personnel changes.
So how does she explain this enthusiasm to return to the place she so loathed? (I’m not a journalist or a journalism student, but how many internship opportunities at publications as large as the Herald Sun are available? Wouldn’t most people take this opportunity?”
“We’ll never know because – having been bold in statement when protected by anonymity – she declines to comment now.” (Why the hell would she want to talk to you given what you have twisted in this article?)
“She has all the courage and morality of a drive-by shooter.” (I don’t think you are much of an authority of courage and morality.)
“She has undermined the crucial trust relationship between intern and newspaper.” (Fair point, however they only have their own actions/statements/workplace culture to fear.)
“She is a selfish, nasty, vicious snitch.” (Doesn’t a snitch report illegal/wrong activities? Doesn’t a snitch expose the truth to the world? At VEXNEWS, an “august journal of truth” (hey, I quoted you!), don’t you strive to be a snitch?!)
And yes, you can quote me.

[VEXNEWS: We won't respond to all of the silly little insults above but it is not correct that 'copyright owners' have requested images be withdrawn, nor would we agree to do so in any event as we are perfectly entitled to publish photographs of the subject of our story under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act. Bush lawyers take note.]

I do not need to defend Vexnews.

Its editor in chief is perfectly capable of defending himself.

However, it would be remiss of me not to applaud the sentiments Mr Landeryou expresses in the article itself and in his response to Mitch Davis.

It is a pity that some students from privileged backgrounds continue to lack the basic character development that comes from having to earn one’s way in the world.

Back in the 1970′s I fought the self-indulgent myopic leftists born in wealth who had strayed from their destiny and become communists. At least they had some principles misguided as they were by a hormone-driven hatred of their progenitors.

Now it seems the destination chosen by the wayward privileged sons and daughters of wealth is that of snide self-importance and supercilious self-interest and a condemnation of basic working and middle class values and principles like gratitude, courtesy, respect and decency and standing by one’s word.

Go VEXNEWS.

Not sure how she could possibly be considered “brave” when she lacked the courage and integrity to put her name to her piece. I doubt she’ll gain the trust of many sources either should she continue with journalism, considering the hatchet job she did on her colleagues. I would have thought there was an understanding that goings-on in the newsroom would be “off-the-record”, even for naive, immature and idealistic interns.

I fear most media organisations will view interns with suspicion and distrust thanks to this incident. She has done enormous damage to not only herself, but her peers and indeed her University. It’s an extremely selfish and ignorant piece.

Mitch Davis, if that is indeed your real name, you lose the argument and then resort to a veiled legal threat. We get plenty of these threats so you’ll have to do better than that.

Yawn. If there’s anything above that is untrue or likely to expose us to defamation liability I’d love you to point it out. Ms Burden/Pieterson is damned by her own words. And we stand by our story as both truthful, well-sourced and reasonable in all the circumstances.

VEXNEWS investigators provided us with photographs that we verified as having being uploaded to a social media website. They are not stolen or hacked or anything like that. It’s only The Age that gets up to those tricks in Australia.

Our tip: If you don’t want photos published, don’t put them on the internet.

Does Ms Burden ‘feel like sh*t’? I hope she does regret what she did. I hope she reflects on the magnitude of what she did and its potential effect on others. But tomorrow’s sunrise brings a new day and I hope she can learn and grow from the misery she unleashed.

The Herald Sun will no doubt think very carefully about its interns going forward, as will probably many other newsrooms. All thanks to Ms Burden.

What a disgusting thing to do to her fellow students and all those yet to come.

I just hope those currently providing internships can see above this and realise that treachery and deceit of this kind is quite rare.

RJ is right. There was no courage displayed by Ms Burden, but even if she’d signed off on her bile, it still would have been damaged the trust relationship between her and those who go out of their way to help interns.

And that’s why she deserves the perfectly legitimate criticism she received.

I’m glad we revealed her identity. We’d do it again.

What on Earth did she think would happen after she wrote that article? What on Earth are they teaching in that journalism degree? I hope her 15 minutes of misguided fame was worth the wasted degree and future unemployment in this industry.
Was she surprised to find journalists are people with their own opinions? The thing is, most journalists – Sasha excluded, obviously – are able to separate those opinions from their news reporting.
What a privileged, insulated life she must lead.
Lucky she has loyal friends (all here today, by the looks), maybe she can start a blog.

This is the 4 millionth comment on the thread. Anyone know what’s happening in Syria?

I think Sasha has come to realise at the end of her formal university studies in journalism just how crass everyday tabloid journalistic work is — hardly needs a degree course, and all those ethics classes are out the window. Many journalism students straight in from school find they don’t even like the profession, at least in mainstream practice, almost as soon as they graduate and land a job. A politically and socially aware leftist arts student could reasonably be expected to be horrified by a stint at The Hun. I blame the unis for making journalism a degree course in the first place, unless they are trying to turn out nothing but responsible investigative journalists. Although every (non-tabloid) journo would probably benefit from being forced to do some soiciology service subjects and the like.

Not sure where Andrew Landeryou fits into all this as a supposed member of the ‘Labor Right’ — this seems to be equivalent to being a card-carrying fully fledged misogynist Liberal or Nat. Very evocative of Tony Abbott’s university and ongoing jinks in world view. Why be loyal to ‘Labor’ and the working class and the socialist movement if you just don’t get it?

[ANDREW LANDERYOU: I'm a member of the Essendon Football Club. That's it. I am not a member of any political party or faction. I am a journalist.(No internships available)]

Produces the article as Anonymous with no sources and fails to even try to contact the Herald Sun for comment.

Other than those huge glaring errors, it wasn’t even a well written piece. Just a little cry about that people in the real world aren’t politically correct.

Thanks Sasha for fucking over every other Journalism student in the state trying to get an internship.

To all the try-hard trot bush lawyers complaining about use of personal photos in this article… If you really understood journalism and copyright you’d know that use of copyright material is permissible when reporting a news story.

Hilarious – go vex news and the rest of the grown ups! I first heard the word heteronormative at uni. Thei graduated and, despite having several gay housemates and colleagues, I havent heard it again … til now!
Kidlet clearly is an idiot. I wonder if vex news has made her reconsider whether online news sites are still the bees knees of journalism.
I never got to do an internship at a paper – let alone two! Just had to graft and work hard and eventually jagged a cadetship. Doesn’t matter what your politics are – journos need to be able to talk to anybody and to understand other people. Kidlet clearly has neither trait and obviously isn’t ready for a real job yet – no matter, seems like she’s keeping busy assuming multiple identities to respond to vex; especially love the shrill suggestions of legal action – about as threatening as being slapped with wet lettuce. A shame for all the j-schoolers who won’t get inside a newsroom before graduation – they’ll never be able to see for themselves whether her “expose” was right.

This piece shouldn’t even exist. “Anon” had every right to publish her article in the student paper, and this reply is so childish and ridiculous. It also puts the original writer in a vulnerable position, compromises her safety by disclosing personal information about her. Her article was far better written and more valid than this piece of junk. You should be ashamed.

Welcome to the real world “Anonymous”. A world that has consequences. Bravo once again to the courage, conviction, honesty and transparency of the new truth in journalism – VEXNEWS.

Andrew Landeryou is a Patriot! Suck it up trolls!

this is disgusting and i have no idea why it’s an article. (to clarify this so called paper is disgusting not the intern)

Does she need a lift home? As I more than willing to drive it sorry I mean her home, but please get her to wear the slutty underwear.

This is such a disgusting article. It’s baffling how you’re doubting someone’s journalistic skills when you have written this pathetic excuse for an article. All you’ve done is prove how incredibly sexist and homophobic you are. You should give up writing ANYTHING and probably also breathing oxygen.

This article and website is nothing but a thrusting phallus of patriarchy attempting to rape the innocence of a vulnerable young womyn who made her own decision to speak from the comfort of anonymity.

It is a *RAPE* to strip her of this protection without her permission.

Documenting the evil of Murdoch’s minions is an important task that future news reporters will thank Anonymous for. No-one will remember VexNews rapists.

Vex News is such a fucking joke. Like actually is this a troll? It’s certainly reads like a parody of the dumbest kind of conservative hack. Fuck you.

And the violation of publishing private nearly naked photographs makes you Andrew Landeryou akin to a pornographer expoliter thug like Larry Flynt, I hope you get shot like he did.

Does the young lady require a lift home from late night uni lectures?

thrusting phallus of patriarchy… God save us from radfems. PIV all day

This is the most pathetic piece of shit I have had the misfortune to read in a very, very long time. What honour you have, oh Vexed ones, in exposing this person. Impressive. Additionally, what fascination you have with heteronormativity – I presume this is a new concept at Vex HQ, along with the notion of homosexuality – both seem really to have struck a chord with VEXNEWS. Really, well done. You must go home every night satisfied with a job well done.

Wow, really RDR, you want to add sexual harassment into this?

Kelly, you can bet your pretty little arse that he does.

This story has blown the fuck up. onya Andy
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/article-pits-hun-against-student-intern-20120808-23un9.html

Is this article actually a joke?
Expressing ones journalistic opinion and flat out threatening someone are two completely different things. This article is a sick abuse of power, it pathetically homophobic and misogynistic. To add insult to injury the person who wrote this article clearly has no clue how to research or learn new things, heteronomativity a new one to you is it? What a surprise, considering the ilk of your article sadly it doesn’t surprise me in any way shape or form. This response is awfully threatening and I feel sick to think that this is what you people consider a piece of journalistic writing, may god have mercy on us all.

Heternormative. I’ve learnt a new word today. Gee, the things you miss out on when you don’t go to university.

It’s hilarious to read Giuseppe De Simone talking about values when he has been found guilty of underpaying staff and is charged with more deceptive behaviour.

It would be a mistake to call this a dreadful piece of journalism. There’s nothing journalistic about it. This is the scaled-up equivalent of a Facebook page (complete with images that look to have been captioned at icanhascheezburger.com) set up by a group of high school kids with a penchant for cyber-bullying and an aggravated sense of self-importance. It’s designed to do no more than to silence someone through public humiliation.

Had someone exposed one of VexNews’ ‘journalists’, no doubt the screaming about violation of privacy would be heard for miles.

Congratulations. You’ve reached a new low, and ‘exposed’ nothing more than your own disregard for any form of ethical principles.

Another hairy armpitted slag pretending to be another Julia abusing our educational facilities.So what if she prefers to bite fur the fact that she can denigrate people trying to show her respect by opening doors just goes to show how fuked up people like her really are. Perhaps the camel should be a role model as it knows its place in society!!

HAHAHAHAHA! Love it. So it’s okay for Sasha to thinly disguise where she interns (the Hun? It’s been called that since the Sun and the Herald merged) and proceeds to bleat about how terribly disrespectful the people are.

So they don’t know how to address or describe a transgender person? So what? Most people don’t. (I find it’s easiest to just ask them)

So they hold the door open for you? That’s not contempt, that’s courtesy – something that Sasha’s parents and private schooling neglected to teach her.

So the reporters make jokes of a non-politically-correct nature? O! The oppression.

I guess Sasha is the type of womyn who gets a kick out of things such as ballpunching.

So much for her open-mindedness. She’s all about gender and any -ism you care to name rather than taking a step back and considering that they might have a reason for a different viewpoint she would rather step into the fire and sacrifice herself on the bonfire of Feminizm 101.

Something else to think about – it didn’t take the Melb Uni long to shop her, did it? You’re not even safe at university.

Vexnews, you can dress it up however you want but you’re just a sad creepy internet bully.

[VEXNEWS: We called out a workplace bully for being a bully. And you refer to that as sad (it brought us joy), creepy (we merely spoke truth to lefty power), internet (got that right), bully. Standing up to a bully makes us a bully? Yeh, whatever.]

Picking on Farrago articles and uni students … keep fighting the good fight. That’s real Woodward n Bernstein stuff that is.

[VEXNEWS: The story appeared - in part - in the Australian. We thought if it was going to be made the subject of controversy that the whole story should be told. Our tireless investigators discovered it, reported it quickly and we think gave a fair and reasonable accounting of events.]

I guess we should be grateful that you are reduced to sniping at Melb Uni from the sidelines and are no longer able to bankrupt the place.

[VEXNEWS: This canard relates to the appointment of a liquidator of the Melbourne University Student Union, nearly ten years after I left there. We've said it before and we'll say it again. That liquidator, the late Dean McVeigh, was someone we called out for acting improperly, defrauding creditors (and taxpayers) and thoroughly misconducting himself. Supreme Court judges agreed. Ultimately, after some time, ASIC eventually succeeded in striking him off for unprofessional and corrupt conduct. If you want to stand on the corrupt side of the fence, go ahead, but don't run out the dead old thief's lines without expecting the truth back at you]

Scum.

[VEXNEWS: Indeed, you are. It seems this comment was auto-blocked because its IP address was associated with a number of viciously racist comments made in the past. Grow up.]

What sad little twat.

Political Correctness gone mad – really depressing what this woman did. A sleazy, underhanded, vile portrayal of misandry – no other words can possible describe what she did, and her body of work, as anything BUT a festering pool of man hating bile – gender chauvinism at its absolute worst – she has managed to single handedly set hack the entire feminist cause with her myopic, self serving, naval gazing, self obsessed gender bashing diatribes.

And those bashing this article for her bullshit need to grow up – seriously, what she did was puerile, juvenile pedantry at it’s absolute worst.

Making the comments she did then trying to hide reveals she did so for malicious purposes only or did not believe what she wrote. As she supposedly wants to be a journo, surely transparency is the core value and if she wants a job with the melbourne age or the greens, placing her monica on the item was a shoe in! Agree with anon’s comments. In other words, “grow up princess”

She is as ugly as fucking sin – another lezzo mole with an aartz degree

I feel sad for Sasha. To be so paranoid as to feel offended, because someone opens the door for you, shows a complete and utter myopic sense of persecution.

To be so offended by others comments (who have welcomed and trusted you into their inner circle), without having the courage to say how you feel to their face, is an act of cowardice. Journalists must be brave.

To be so offended, by off the cuff remarks, said in your prescence, (after you have been welcomed and given an opportunity by your hosts, to share their workplace, their thoughts and their environment), which you then store in your memory for later use, as “ammunition” against your hosts, shows a lack of integrity.

To then be filled with so much hatred, that you would celebrate the demise of your hosts, shows ingratitude.

As a journalist, if you are proud of your work and thoughts, why would you post anonymously?

I feel sorry for anyonone who is so delusion, cowardly, lacking in integrity, ungrateful and shameful.

P.S. As Duck says “Thanks Sasha for fucking over every other Journalism student in the state trying to get an internship.”

Geez, you Aussies have really gone to pack!

….and from a country that bought us Elle MacPherson and Laura Bingle!
If all your sheilas have gone butch, it must be due to your powderpuff blokes, we should send over some dinkum kiwis to help out.

God Defend Australia.

Will the last intern please turn out the lights?

Three cheers for Vexnews!

& one more for every comments from offended lefty morons on this page.

Vile and horrific piece. I would expect something like this on right wing talk back radio.

“lefty lesbian militant with a funky haircut”

Seriously, who do you think you are?

I hope your parents didn’t invest in paying for your education because with comments like this, it was clearly wasted.

Great work, Andy.

The comments section on this article is pure gold! People are pissing themselves laughing in our office…

Dear sweet lord, we hadn’t even got to womyn hatred’s comments…. hahahaha. Stop it please!!

“Beasts of Burden” – what a brillant double pun!!!

I have only 4 words to say to Miz Sasha: “Suck it up, sweetheart”.

In 5 to 10 years time she might actually grow up, get a haircut, get a real job, get married to a bloke, start breeding, and live in Blackburn. Such a transformation happens to many young punks after they realize the error of their ways. Just ask Missy Higgins….

Wow. Thanks Tim for the link and VEX for the article, and misc perverts for the comments. Rage you useless humourless self-absorbed little commies, RAGE! I haven’t laughed so hard in days.

Vexnews is now my second favourite website. The comments are more entertaining than the article. Love it.

People don’t realise the damage she’s done to students who would like to intern at a place like the Herald Sun. They’re probably going to accept less people, especially UniMelb students like me in fear that we’ll do something similar to Sasha.

People don’t realise the damage she’s done to students who would like to intern at a place like the Herald Sun. They’re probably going to accept less people, especially UniMelb students like me in fear that we’ll do something similar to Sasha.

And they would be quite right to do so, unfortunately, Emma.

Why on earth should they trust what is being taught at the uni when a stupid stunt like this is pulled?

You can thank your fellow student for the closing of the door.

It’s called the Law of Unintended Consequences that never seems to get a hearing out in Leftyland.

***was identifying her and trying to humiliate her for her background necessarily?***

Definitely. Let’s keep in mind her background *is* humiliating, all Vex has done is bring it to light.

These anti-Vex comments are hilariously enlightening (or is it enlighteningly hilarious? Not sure). Not even The Onion could be this funny if they tired. “Womyn?” Seriously? “Heteronomativity?” Bwahahaha. Well done, Sasha.

***how to be my Girlfriend” was a refreshing read about the passion of young infatuation***

“…I’ll catch you doing heroin one day and I’ll start to worry that I’ve got HIV or hepatitis….”

LOL. Yeah, ‘refreshing’, if you’re Courtney Love.

***she’s kinnda cute !***

Just got outta the joint, hon?

Emma and nilk (hi nilk!)
I see a very different possibility: The Hun taking on more interns from UoM.
Look at the daily fare of a journalist: disaster, financial hell, governments that are corrupt and/or incompetent. If that was what I had to face every day I’d be grabbing for every bit of comedy relief available.
Hell, I wouldn’t just hold the door open. I’d murmur a deferential “The third floor, ma’m” in the best traditions of British butlerhood.

Gross.
Vexnews you are a joke of a news site.
This article sounds like it was written by some insecure 15 year old still gossiping in highschool.
It is neither informative, fair, interesting or professional.
Your news site is a homophobic, slut shaming, unprofessional, disgusting joke.
The author of this name shaming article on Sasha should be ashamed.

Who ever said “this article is a sick abuse of power” is certainly right.
People who are jumping on that bandwagon should be ashamed though they are probably to morally corrupt or moronic to be.

this is actually hilarious.

This is an awful article.

Hysterically funny yet utterly tragic all at the same time.

It’s kind of like LaTrobe Uni where a former lecture theatre next to the notoriously lefty humanities department is now a prayer room with gender segregated facilities.

I don’t understand why people are talking about her like she breached such sacred trusts etc etc. It’s the Sun, they make their living by being underhand and “snitching” on people. Someone did that to them and look at the shit storm.

Part of me really wonders if the person who wrote this article is trolling. It just can’t be serious.

Good to see we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for name calling all round.
Pretty pathetic article.
Publishing a bunch of someone else’s photos is kinda rude, especially considering they’re taken out of context, and putting little arrows on them???? with one pointing to a camel??? – prettty immature……….

lol I don’t think this newspaper understands what “heteronormative” even means (or what a dictionary is?) Like, the fact that constant comment about the irrelevant fact that she’s a lesbian is actually the definition of the word “homophobia.” Also, you don’t have to be gay to be a decent human being: some straight people realize that heteronormativity is a thing, just saying.

With News Ltd $1.5 billion debt and Fairfax declining the media wars are getting hotted up. It reminds me of “Lord of the Fly” and the fighting over the conch and later the pigs head. Soon the only media left could be Farago, Vexnews and Crikey.

That said while the intern thinks the Herald Sun is sexist I think Some womyn reporters at The Age are anti men. I have commented on three of them in the past they being Ms S Carbone, Ms C Webb and Miss R Thistleton.

PS: Its my 60th birthday today ( 09 Aug 12 – Nagasaki Day) so all my Vexnews friend can wish me birthday greetings.

[VEXNEWS: A happy heteronormative Zionist birthday to you Adrian.]

I actually feel upset by the abuse that has been directed to Anon. She is a human who is entitled to her opinion. I don’t blame her for going Anon, I guess she was hoping to not be publicly slammed and abused by a bunch of people who seem to have nothing better to do than tease a young woman. And congratulations on ‘outing’ her VEXNEWS, I see that you’ve worked out how to stalk people on facebook before making a snap bitchy judgement and then calling it news.
Shame on you, and shame on everyone who agrees. Grow up.

this article is disgusting.
well done bottom feeders at vexnews.
ugh.

Gee, lots of angry little Femi-hipsters are busy trolling VEXNEWS today from their Apple laptops at Melb Uni…

My cans are bigger than hers.

This is a perfect example of why we shoudl be more careful with the media because clearly big corporations are out to destroy any unpopular opinion no matter how truthful it is. This article shaming the inter is not only despicable but depressing. How can people stand back and defend a media corporation that openly exploits and oppresses the situation of minorities. Sasha has all the right to her opinion about her experiences and there is no reason why she should be attacked for telling the truth about what goes on behind the door of the elitists. Vexnew and other media sources that allow things like this to happen are what is wrong with society and hopefully more people like Sasha are around to help us really see beyond that facade of bullshit the media puts up for the masses. I applaud girls like her because no matter how many times any media outlet tries to shame her for who she is and her honesty. In the end she is the one with dignity and integrity.

at what point did an opinion article in a student newspaper become such a great threat to mainstream media and for that matter right wing conservatism?
this slander is as though anon has the power to destroy the herald sun, and all of its honest unbiased publications.
this girl is a STUDENT, who has the right to voice her experience in an article that reaches other students.
This childish and shallowly aggressive attack upon her speaks volumes about enforcement of the status quo. which seems to me to be extremely heteronormative as well as sexist judging from the orentation of the attacks on her.
She found her experience at the herald sun offensive, and she wrote an article about it to other students.
she has now been physically threatened,sexually assaulted, shamed for her sexual orientation, shamed for her appearance and questioned on the validity of her opinion based on this.
this is disgusting. it makes me sick knowing that this kind of hollow gang mentality is enforced upon someone who shares their experience of alienation.

Is intern reporter the same as a cadet roporter? Intern is a very American word.

@Jimmy
I find it even more bizarre that VEXNEWS was trolling a Student Publication.

I am dying here in fits of laughter from some of the comments written by those who think it sexist for a bloke to be courteous to women.

Being offended by such petty things will backfire. There are far more important issues to get all fired up about.

by the way, just fund this too, I wouldn’t be surprised if the degenerates at the herald sun were sitting around making these memes themselves

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24664849.jpg

This article is so fucked. Shame on YOU!
What has her sexual orientation or the way she looks got to do with this matter?
Such slimey behaviour.
Pathetic.

by the way, just found this too, I wouldn’t be surprised if the degenerates at the herald sun were sitting around making these memes themselves

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24664849.jpg

hahahahaha!

So much fun reading all the lefties whinging.

What’s good for the goose.

Next time the left goes on a witch hunt for someone having spoken a heresy, remember your outrage here.

I sure will.

Was this article completely necessary?
I would like to point someone decided that this wasn’t a waste of time, but let me assure you it is. It’s slander in the truest form and “slut shaming”. It’s 2012, we are better than this. To those who feel she should “suck it up” sexism in the workplace is a crime.

As an old white conservative male of the right all I can say is congratulations I wish I could cause such a perfect storm of comments.

” Men were also continuously and unnecessarily
sexist, waiting for me to walk through doors
and leave the elevator before them”

Outrageous! How dare they be polite! Maybe they weren’t doing it because she is a woman, but because she is another human. Way to be sexist and make assumptions about men that she doesn’t know.

Almost everything she mentions in the article isn’t discriminatory. People on the left forget that people are entitled to their views, even if they are -phobic. As long as they don’t discriminate, they can be as fearful as they want. Last I checked, it’s not illegal to be fearful.

We can only hope that she doesn’t follow a career as a journalist. What a disgusting piece of feminazi filth she is.

I am glad VEXNEWS published this article because it exposes the brainwashing that goes on in our Universities.

The fact that a young journalism student can get all hot and bothered and outraged by men being courteous to her is in itself an outrage. Most people would respect her if she was out there writing articles about how women are being humiliated and objectified by dirty old men in Melbourne strip clubs, having their wombs violated by abortionists, being physically disfigured in 1000s of gonzo movies produced in Canberra and Hollywood, murdered by their relatives in honor killings because they didn’t want to marry some creepy cousin, not being allowed to drive a car in Saudi Arabia, and forced to kill their babies just because they aren’t male.

And yet some of the so-called feminists here reckon that a man showing courtesy to a woman is a crime. GET A FLIPPIN’ GRIP ON REALITY!!!!

Thanks Sasha for ensuring interns will be completely shafted, if they’re accepted at all. This sucks. I’m personally glad Vex has gone in hard, if I saw her I’d give her a piece of my mind.

Don’t be intimidated by extremist commenters, Vex, they’re a big laugh for anyone with a brain.

I applaud her strength in standing up to this blatant backward behaviour. Isn’t the point of being in journalism to question and inform?

Also, “feminazi filth”? Obviously “Bruce” has a more backwards vision than the people at VEXNEWS and the Herald Sun.

Btw, yes folks, this really is what an arts degree at Melbourne Uni in the 21st century consists of. I should know, I did one. It’s hilarious really, they should call it a degree in feminism, Marx and Freud. Balanced and rational analysis of issues? Forget it. If you don’t write or argue with a feminist, Marxist or Freudian bent, you will be penalised in essays and/or shouted down in tutorials by rabid feminists who think that holding a door open for someone means you are a sexist bastard.

So weird being a man these days, on one hand you have crazy feminists saying stuff like that, and on the other hand you have women complaining about men not giving up their seats for them on the train. Pfft, can’t win.

Seriously? Using homosexual stereotypes (when she isn’t even) and slut-shaming? You guys are no better than you make her out to be. Vexnews, she is a student and you are an established publication. You should be ashamed of how childish and immature this article is. Revealing her identity was wrong as it is, but going to her Facebook (it looks like) and posting pictures without her consent to use them only to shame her even further is downright evil. People are entitled their opinions, the least you can do is respect her opinions even if you disagree, and not stoop so low as to judge her from her haircut or anything else about her appearance for that matter. You have only proven yourselves to be pigs.

Thanx to you, I can’t have my work experience anymore,
Tuff up, welcome to the world!!!
I worked most of the time with men, and they are easier going then women!

Does she have a younger teenage sister as Dicky will willingly give her a ‘lift’ home?

C’mon Andrew, moderate my comment from 14:12!

“…white…”

So she used both this word in a pejorative sense. One would think that certainly would constitute a breach of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Particularly if you look at Eatock v Bolt. Now wouldn’t that be hilarious to test in court, good thing we know her name. Cat’s out of the bag now.

I see someone got turned down by lesbian.

I thought this was great! another typical snot nosed uni student who is happy to take advantage of an organisation only to slag them off behind thier backs not once but twice!!….I don’t care who she did it to all it demonstrates is her ability to back stab with no regard… yay for free speech your fucking dickhead they should have slammed those doors in your face!! YAY FOR VEXNEWS!!

VEXNEWS:

Firstly, it would give your audience a better idea of what to expect if you were to change your company name to “VEXBOOK” – this article is no more intelligent or insightful than a high school status rant. This is not journalism, it’s hate manifested, narrow-minded, immature drool.

I’m personally glad that you’ve shown me Sasha’s face, so that when I see her walking down the street, I can high-5 her.

Andrew Landeryou, you seem to have made a mistake in stating that this article is “truthful” and “well-sourced,” as it states:

“Claims to be studying journalism but appears to hate journalists and journalism;”

This is clearly not truthful or well-sourced, as you lot couldn’t even comprehend when Sasha blatantly stated “Huzzah to the future of online, diverse reporting.” I will spell this out for you – Sasha is supportive of O-N-L-I-N-E, D-I-V-E-R-S-E R-E-P-O-R-T-I-N-G.

Please congratulate the deluded, insecure, anonymus, immature employee that has just saved you the time of publicly shaming your company’s name.

The Herald Sun should tell Margie Symonds to shove the intern programme up her ample arse.
And anyway, the MU interns could maybe get a spot in the empty echoing halls of the Spencer St Socialist … for now.

Can’t imagine why blokes let her exit the lift first or opened the door for her.
Can’t have been to check out her arse.

Oh and who are we kidding? You don’t need an internship at The Herald Sun to find out that they’ve wasted tonnes of paper on pumping rubbish media into the country, you can find out just by looking at the front page of their papers.

Seriously, someone e-mailed the text of this article to me at work and I read it without knowing any more about the author other than that he/she/it? was on a short-term internship.
Judging by the quality of the prose I assumed the author was about Year 10 standard.
I was absolutely gob-smacked to find not only that the author was at University, but was studying journalism!

Is this a joke?
Sasha wrote an article that is about incidents that many members of the public would be concerned about, myself included, if they knew they were going on. I only occasionally glance at the Herald Sun, but hearing the attitudes towards homosexual and transgender people from Sasha’s article, I will be sure to never glance at it again. And VEXNEWS’s response is to whine about the fact that she attended a private school? I would be interested to know how many writers for VEX attended private schools, and when the article ‘outing’ their education will be published.

She’ll probably end up working for a Socialist alliance , Socialist Alternative or Green Left Weekly Mag or online blog where she would fit in with all the loosers there.

*losers, Michael Burd. If you’re going to insult at least spell it correctly. You’re clearly a great writer yourself.

Love the hipster glasses.

It seems she is a bit precious and naive. Welcome to the real world.

Media is failing in Australia and most is so under the control of the Zionists. The Jewish News under the new owner is for asylum seekers to Occupied Palestine but against asylum seekers to Australia.

His newspaper is getting smaller and smaller on line. No letters or comments on articles; no wonder its former editor left when the Sydney property developer bought the paper.

The Herald-Sun is an evil far right winged rag that tongue kisses the backsides of evil unintelligent men like Abbott. It really is nothing more than cheap page 3 lies for the less smart in the community.

Congrats, vexnews team! Another vain hipster wrecks the opportunities of aspiring journos and seemingly it is your fault. This kidlet must be the most unpopular person on campus. She can still take up composting with Margaret Simmons as a career. Viva les journals tabloids!!

Today I celebrate 60 years of proud anti-semitism.

Hipsters are the new emos….. I.e. they all deserve to be the subject of a violent attack!

It is “rape” to expose an author that attempted to hide behind anonymity while slandering others (in contravention of all journalistic principles)? Give me a break! Womyn rather than women? Sheesh. Holding a door open for a lady is “sexist?” Well pardon me for being polite. Patriarchy has again united to stick its phallus up the collective sisterhood?!?

God this 70′s circa feminist tripe is hackneyed. It is telling that most earnest lefties have never studied political science a day in their lives. In my purely anecdotal experience, most of these earnest, faux lefties (and I don’t mean real Marxists, Trotskyites etc.) are bereft of any sense of pragmatism, while cleaving to a priori belief systems that preclude objective analysis. Ad Hominem attacks, moral rectitude and unctuousness are the frequent refuges for those lacking the ability to reason on a more sophisticated plane. Most of their attacks are laced with invective, and presume that anybody arguing a contrary position must be in the grips of some psychological phobia or another (be it homophobia, xenophobia, Islamaphobia etc., etc. ) They worship dissemblers like Said and Foucault, whom no less a venerable linguist that Noam Chomsky declared utterly incoherent. They make meaningless jibes about “fear of the other” any time one criticises the retrograde and atavistic beliefs that still hold sway in certain societies. And why does everybody carry on as if they are the first to have coined that tired, old and utterly untested concept, first mooted in the 60s? So too Ms Mole’s article was laced with this reflexive leftist language and seething moral rectitude. In a word, Ms Mole’s article was … unimaginative.

And why choose to call The Sun the “Hun”, Ms Mole? A bit culturally insensitive, no? Just ask any German …

For the record, I have two Masters degrees in politics. Thankfully, most of these Ms Mole types get weeded out by then! (By the elitist hetero-acry, of course!)

Wow Vexnews this is embarrassing. Great journalism fuck wits, you all deserve to be sued for slander and defamation.

The Israeli Semites killed my relatives in Palestine. Gas them all

@ Jasmine – ummm – are you aware that calling somebody an f$%^wit might also be construed as slander? Ever heard this term – what’s good for the goose is good for the gander? Or perhaps “two wrongs don’t make a right”

Very eloquent by the way :)

@ Jasmine and A Don Eladio: Slander refers to defamatory oral statements; libel refers to written ones. In any case, one sues under general defamation in Australia these days; not that calling someone a fuckwit would be defamatory anyway.

This is complete bullshit – whichever bright spark at VEX who wrote this sounds like a 14 year old girl gossiping. Go suck yourself – nobody should be shamed on for expressing their opinions, their sexuality or efforts.

CV>Stupid tubby dyke seeks internship at Green Left Weekly.

Wow! Her [deleted] No wonder she is angry.

The most perplexing thing is how stupid this girl must be to think that writing as “anon” was going to protect her identity in this day and age, whilst she slagged off on a newspaper and its employees. Welcome to the 21st century, toots, where the most basic of searches can out you within hours. The sad part is if she was hot she probably would have been invited back, regardless of the idiotic article…

I’ve seen bulldogs that are more atttactive than this skank.

Ha ha love the outrage from the lefties. They have no problem with the whinging, whining, little lesbian brat and its dishonourable behaviour. Perhaps were they too refused right of reply the outrage would escalate into gay kiss-ins in the foyer of the HS.
I like the the way this article is written. It seems to me that Vex would make an excellent fisherman. Baited hooked and reeled in, losers.
M commented that “…nobody should be shamed on for expressing their opinions, their sexuality or efforts” yet Burden does just that to all those at the HS and not a peep of condemnation for her.
Hey M I saw your photo in the dictionary next to the word ‘Hypocrite’.

I understand that she will be on the Greens ticket for the next Federal election

This entire article is rendered irrelevant by the way the authors have approached the criticism of Sasha Burden.

Having read her entire piece, and also having interned at the Herald Sun, I can confirm that some of her criticism of certain individuals stands true. However, I also found the majority of the journalists at the Herald Sun to be kind and thoughtful people, who are themselves against the blatantly discriminatory attitudes exhibited by a few members of the editorial board.

Sasha is extremely passionate, and evidently inexperienced in dealing with work room cultures and understanding the implications of her student-day antagonism. But VEXNEWS has written an article which is far worse than that of a second year STUDENT.

How can the writers of this article justify the overt links they make between consensual sex and drugs, judgements on promiscuity and the uninformed and biased attack on the far left? I would like to find out the backgrounds of the staff at this publication, and point out that even if ONE of them is from a ‘privileged’ background, that point would be made completely irrelevant when critiquing Burned.

Burned may have made a huge error in not thinking her article through, forgetting that in a digital era, everything is permanent. She also made a mistake in writing out of fury without consulting other sources, and in failing to engage in journalistic convention by denying the newspaper a response.

As for this article? It’s a stain on the practice of journalism, which goes out of its way to insult every aspect of Sasha’s life. In my view, it’s so much worse than the article it is criticising: at least Sasha wrote out of passion, and not out of sheer malice.

I was not aware of Vexnews until linked here from another site highlighting the preciousness of this little sneak.

I look forward to visiting again, and please keep annoying these pompous, vicious little children with their self-absorbtion.

Lefty Logic…

Writing an anonymous piece with your opinions about others in it = excellent.

Writing an attributed piece with your opinions about others in it = evil.

Hillarious, nothing like stirring up the trolls at Melb Uni..now I see were my taxes go. Jesus when I was a student all we were interested in was sex, drugs and rick and roll, seems these days everyone is very serious.

I am a reasoanably educated person (yes I have post grads) but I dont understand half the words written – there must be some new langauge I am not aware off…get a real job and stop wasting my taxes on this femo/homo/whatever wankers!!!!

First time I have been on here, having followed a link, but I shall come here more often.
Thanks for a great article Anthony, and it’s great to see the easily offended wymyn in an uproar at your oh so indelicate and cruel dissemination of this little precious petal.
And for those who find it a tad nasty that Anthony and the crew are having a go at someone with a haircut like the tool above, trust me when I say he/she/it is fair game.
Anybody who would willingly get a haircut like that, and even if it might have once been ‘fashionable’, well, it is one of the most ridiculous haircuts of all time, and whomsoever followed this fashion is, to put it nicely, a knob.
Truly a ridiculous haircut, of sublime proportions.

What a wonderful bit of real life entertainment this site has given me this evening. Sincere thanks to you all, including the sasha I am so so glad I have not met.

I bet vexnewsbro was wearing a fedora when he typed up this shit.

An article like this and the comments to it are hilarious, because it shows just how conceited the lefty politics followers are that they follow this website when it is dishing dirt on the libs or another target of the day, but then can’t handle the heat when the laserbeam is shone onto their own biases and foibles.

The authoritarian streak and “we know best” attitude could never be more clearly displayed than lefty trolls revelling in the gossip that we owe Vexnews such a great debt for, writhing when it goes against them, but being so hooked they keep coming back like bugs to a bug zapper.

“The light! It’s sooo pretty!”

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she’s an idiot for going back for a second internship. she knew what the herald sun are about, everyone does, no one takes it seriously. so pleading ignorance is off the table. she just ran out of things to whine about and so she sought this as a good opportunity to add to her self-righteous opinions in this ‘post-adolescent idealistic’ phase of hers. offended cause someone held the door open for her? please.

this article is absolute rubbish though, it makes personal and immature attacks which are highly unnecessary and irrelevant to the actual issue itself- the fact that she has severed a very important tie for future students in her place. if she didn’t want to be in that kind of environment, perhaps she shouldn’t have accepted the internship. it was an internship not a mission to write an expose` on what sexism and whatever, goes on behind the closed doors of THE HERALD SUN.

Did our Prime Minister pay this child for “payback” to her media friends. If so, like everything else, a huge stuff-up. Most young people at the age leaving school then Uni. Go through a “leftist” stage in life. Sadly this is encouraged by the $180,000 p.a. teachers, with absolutely no responsibility, plus usually, a mandatory hatred for the Male species in general. On meeting these very bad so called Teachers already exposed by their piers as doing no more than promoting extreme left Propaganda . Their demeanour will usually display, for some reason, a huge chip on the shoulder, and a severe leftist idealism that most of their students, and most normal people grow out of with little life experience once employed. I could only laugh at the childish article. But a bad reference for our Journo’ educators. It also appears young Sasha has decided for an early termination of her non career.

Can I ask what relevance is her sexual preference? Also how is this article any better than the article written by Sasha? At least Sasha was writing an article about a corporation that has the power to defend itself. She didn’t name or shame anybody. Your article is simply bullying and complete and utter gutter trash journalism. How embarrassing for you.

Gee some nasty beaver biters out there.

And I certainly wouldn’t sniff her seat!

Excellent work, Andy.

Yes excellent work

lol this comments section is the best outpouring of lefty hipster angst ever

I have never seen such a collective of rabid lefty dykes before. girls get off the blogging and stop wishing you had a wad. you are never going to make a difference when you carry on like spoilt sluts at a prom night.

Well the ABC will be knocking down her door with job offers-shes a shoe in for that sheltered workshop for trots.

I feel sorry for this girl and the sheltered life she has lived to date. Such immaturity….

Although it was well-intentioned, Burden’s article was trashed not because it was bold or revolutionary. It was trashed because it was trashy.

Quick Comrades. Find me something to be outraged about. It will be good for my street cred with the peeps. I’m hip young and angry. Vote 1 – J Rudd