People at News Corp. must think Australians are idiots with their continual spin against state and federal labor parties. They pass off as news made up headlines and stories. Yesterday’s Herald Sun front page story was typical News Corp. nonsense. It is a headline driven by the Auditor General’s report into the East West Link. I have read the summary of the AG report and listened to and read several news stories. Only the Labor hating News Corp paper saw the story this way.
The Herald Sun coverage is not news, it is biased and unprofessional.
News Corp needs to stop expecting newsagents to be the pushers of their brand of politics.
Footnote: this post is about the editorial content only, not the circulation people or processes.
Anyone who has watched the CH9 mini series “Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War” will see that Murdoch has been using his media empire to influence politics in this country from the beginning.
Now that this blog has transformed into a personal political soapbox, I look forward to your critique of Fairfax’s relentless and often irrational pursuit of Tony Abbott….particularly online. And I’m not even an Abbott fan.
Yes, Ted, it is a soapbox with less than .0001% of posts like this one. Not!
Fairfax upholds independent editorial standards whereas News does not.
Fairfax news articles I heve read about Abbott were based on fact.
It has actually been demonstrated that some of the Abbott commentary in Fairfax is made up and apologies have been issued accordingly.
Fairfax editorial standards may be “independent” but they are quite low and the absence of any conservative commentators means it tends to be a bit one dimensional. Group think is what they call it I believe.