A perfect day in Conroyland
Make no mistake. These media “reforms”, to use the term both loosely and wrongly, have nothing to do with ensuring higher standards of media conduct and greater diversity of views. They are about one thing and one thing only – spite.
Is Australia’s journaillie too dumb to realize what Conroy’s legislation will mean to them?
Andrew Bolt:
Update:
Laws to punish the media will put this country in a dangerous place
To now hear the journaillie crying for their muzzle is terrifying.
IT’S shocking enough the Gillard Government tries to muzzle journalists. Worse is that journalists cheer it on. Â (full post below the fold)
Bravo, Piers Akerman, for angrily challenging the three snickering and sneering members of the journalist collective on the set of Insiders to fight for free speech. There was some noisy spinning of wheels in reverse after that justifiably furious outburst, but too little and too late.
Journalists panting for their muzzle.
And what also disgusts me – that pack-attack and group-think mentality which makes so much of Australia’s media so intellectually lazy, complacent and incurious, and so prey to fashionable enthusiasms such as global warming. So Malcolm laughs at Piers as Karen laughs even harder, while glancing over to Barrie to check he’s laughing, too.
More on this issue in the Herald Sun tomorrow.
UPDATE
Reader Linda:
I just watched Insiders on TV and it occurred to me, that those journalists would be apoplectic if a Liberal Party had introduced this bill.They’re just sycophants.
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