Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
There is a funny thing about Ashley Geelan and Donald Trump. Geelan would almost certainly hate the comparison. That is part of the point. The people who cannot stop telling everyone how important they are usually get very delicate when someone holds up a mirror. To be clear, this is not an argument about American […]
An email was long on threats and short on facts Ashley Geelan has now tried a new line with Geelan Lies: dress up a threatening email as if it came with the weight of Victoria Police and Corrections behind it. The message opens with the claim that Geelan Lies is “under investigation”, supposedly at the […]
Yes, Geelan Lies uses AI. That is not the scandal. Geelan Lies uses AI regularly. There is no mystery in that and no point pretending otherwise. The funny part is that even with AI in the workflow, Geelan Lies is producing cleaner, more careful, more accountable journalism than Ashley Geelan manages at VicNews. That should […]
Ashley Geelan’s membership problem Ashley Geelan likes borrowed credibility. A logo here, a badge there, a line in an email signature saying “Member MEAA, LINA & IFJ.” It looks tidy. It looks professional. It is meant to tell the reader: this is a journalist with standing. The problem is that membership claims are not decoration. […]
There is a special kind of comedy in Ashley Geelan calling himself a “local correspondent”. Local to where, exactly? Because Kinglake does not seem to remember him as a trusted local newsman. It remembers the mess. It remembers the fights. It remembers the threats, the dramas, the online carry-on, and the long-running habit of inserting […]
This is opinion and commentary based on Ashley Geelan’s own public Bluesky posts. It treats his brothel story as his claim, not as an independently proven event. Ashley Geelan has now decided that his media-branded Bluesky account is the right place to tell the public that he went to a brothel at 25. That is […]