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Elsewhere – Jumping at shadows

February 9, 2012 – 11:00 am, by Dave Gaukroger
   

Jumping at shadows

Contrasting articles by Lenore Taylor and Ben Eltham aren’t about the prospect of a Rudd challenge to the Labor leadership. They are about what the purpose of political journalism is: what it’s for, and who’s it for.

Via Andrew Elder

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    Posted February 9, 2012 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    From Elder’s piece:

    What [Lenore] Taylor does at the top and tail of her article, and what many journalists do when fickle winds blow their drizzle of piss back at them, is plead that their job is difficult and that they work hard at it. Many people work hard at difficult jobs. This is precisely why it is important to have good journalism to tell us what those who govern us are doing. … When journalists insist “this story won’t go away” when there is no compelling reason why it should take up so much space right now, people can and do turn away from the media knowing they are not missing much.

    Modern political “journalism” nailed. Apart from occasional visits to a couple of Crikey blogs, the odd Bernard Keane piece (and even his articles aren’t worth the time recently) and a very few other political blogs, I just cannot be bothered with the sprialling self-justification and beating-up of non-issues any more. They say you get the politicians you deserve – maybe so but what did we do to deserve the navel-gazing sham that is political “journalism”?

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