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October 07, 2004
Toeing the line
Peter Manning addressed the Brisbane Institute on 21 September on the topic Is Australia an intelligence and media colony? He asks: "Why is it that on several key issues, particularly since September 11, our Press appears to have given up the role of reporting fair down the middle, keeping a distance from Government spin and resisting with skepticism the overblown rhetoric of war? Is the Press afraid of being accused of being un-Australian, traitors, pinkos or extremists? I do not believe boatloads of asylum seekers threatened Australia, I do not believe the Palestinian narrative gets a fair go in our media and I did not believe we should have gone to war in Iraq. I am more concerned with a trend that seems to threaten our democracy. The trend towards a compliant Press." An edited version of his remarks can be found at http://www.brisinst.org.au/resources/manning_peter_media.html. Posted by belinda at October 7, 2004 11:59 AMEmail this