http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-09/green-journalism-tainted-by-conviction-isnt-journalism/4677612
" The other 'journalism' that 'works' in this uncertain environment is
the sort of polemic that may have limited commercial worth but enormous
political purpose ... and this might be the most unfortunate mutation of
the craft in our times, turning journalism to cynically political
purpose while claiming all the protections, rights and respectability of
the fourth estate.
Fox News - that's the best example of how this
works: an entirely parallel universe that determines its own agenda,
facts and logic according to an often bellicose political mission. This
is not journalism created with intellectual curiosity to inform; this is
journalism dedicated to the insistent prosecution of a series of
political propositions.
We see its muted fellow travellers in our
own TV and press, most notably in our national broadsheet The
Australian, a paper whose political purpose and occasional flights of
"truthiness" can routinely obscure its better journalistic angels.
And
then we have the opinion formers of the tabloid blogosphere. Little
s-bends of ill-humour like the Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair, or great
vaulted Taj Mahals of polished ego like the Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt.
They are not for profit. They are for politics and influence, pivots of
opinion, so loud, so insistent, so ubiquitous that they are capable of
turning the national mind."
To answer the question posed in my previous post.
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