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The Australian on News of the World: comedy gold

By James Jenkin - posted Friday, 22 July 2011

In other words, Flint couldn't be pro-News because he's more conservative than they are. A unique angle I'm still trying to get my head around.

Bombarding readers with pro-News opinion pieces

On the 16th of July we had not one, not two, but three articles, covering an entire opinion page, painting News in a positive light. As mentioned earlier, Brendan O'Neill's Elite few spearhead the anti-Murdoch campaign highlights the glee felt by prominent 'elitist' progressives over the damage to News.

News of the World scandal wouldn't happen here quotes uncritically News Chairman John Hartigan's statement that he is 'confident the practices uncovered in Britain do not exist in Australia'. Mike Steketee's Press Council on the case of casual attitude to ethics blames the Internet for putting undue pressure on print journalists to lower their standards to compete. (Incidentally does this pass the 'people in the pub' test?)

After all the lectures we've had from The Australian regarding lack of balance at the ABC and The Age, it's all just a laugh really.