"The Australian is not noticeably a worse paper than the other quality papers. It is however, a more ideological paper, with much more kind of explicit agendas, than the natural rivals, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. And I think that gives it an importance in the balance of opinion in the society, because a lot of intelligent people read The Australian, and I think because it has a neo-conservative agenda by and large, and the other papers don’t have much of an agenda..."
Robert Manne, ABC Radio National Media Report, August 11, 2005
Manne is delusional, of course. The Murdoch press has a more transparent agenda, if anything, while Fairfax equally believes in the same ideology: privatisation, deregulation, the US alliance and free markets. To suggest otherwise is a far too convenient way of understanding the mainstream media's failure.
Robert Manne, ABC Radio National Media Report, August 11, 2005
Manne is delusional, of course. The Murdoch press has a more transparent agenda, if anything, while Fairfax equally believes in the same ideology: privatisation, deregulation, the US alliance and free markets. To suggest otherwise is a far too convenient way of understanding the mainstream media's failure.
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Oh, I read the Fairfax press, daily (though it's getting harder.) To suggest that Jaspan is a raving leftie is laughable. Questioning Western hegemony isn't leftie, it's rational. Though, really, the Fairfax press operates under a similiar ideology, in a much more subtle way.
Keep reading...
Fairfax is like the Green Left Weekly? Jesus Christ, I'm sure you read GLW often, and stop simply saying what the Blairs on this world parrot.
It's nonsense. The occasional piece criticising Iraq et al does not make the paper left-wing. My thoughts on Fairfax are clear for all to see, and I used to work there.
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