The Play’s the Thing
Put aside Labor vs Liberal for a moment. The fact is Australia is governed by a handful of extremely powerful interest groups: The miners, the bankers, the “gaming” industry, the media. Journalists employed by mainstream media companies can’t tell you this, because they are part of the power structure themselves. They can’t take a step back and analyse the institutions that foster the very apathy that allows narrow interests to pursue their advantage unmolested.
Via Mr Denmore
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The shrinking pool of journalist job opportunities may possibly be the reason for Bernard Keane’s poor essays that increasingly ignore stark evidence to the contrary of his conservatively biased articles.
I suppose the security of having to put food on his table might explain why he is morphing into a Gerard Henderson or Piers Ackerman