Most people learn from a very early age that there are two sides to any story.
Clearly those in charge at News Crap Australia’s daily broadshit The Australian aren’t most people. Our Media Glass House researchers suspect our readers already knew that.
Several times in recent months our MGH teams have pointed out how strongly The Australian has taken the side of the big business lobby when it comes to the Albanese Government’s industrial relations reforms aimed at delivering a modicum of fairness to the most vulnerable and lowest paid workers in our nation.
The Oz was at it again on Tuesday after ferreting out in federal government background papers to its IR legislation some big figures that it splashed on its front page to terrorise the nation. (at left in main picture)
The headline claim of a $9 billion cost in extra wages over a decade may or may not prove to be correct.
But our MGH teams again ask: Why does The Oz constantly parrot the business lobby line?
The other side to the story – and an alternative headline (at right in main picture) – is obviously the fact that extra wages in the economy means more spending power to boost that very same economy.
Our MGH researchers will be very surprised, if not downright shocked, if they ever see that on the front of The Oz.
But they do believe that right now most Australians would think business can more than afford paying more to those who are at present rather lowly paid when they consider the huge profits being booked by so many corporations led by executives pocketing millions, sometimes tens of millions, in salary and who all seem to get a hefty pay rise plus often undeserved bonuses at the drop of a hat.
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Speaking of News Crap Australia taking sides, our MGH teams noticed an interesting feature of the Murdoch media’s coverage this week of the referendum on the voice for First Nations to our federal parliament.
You might recall an ongoing argument that erupted a week or so ago was about the length of the Uluru Statement from the Heart,
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and others on the “yes” side said the relevant statement was a simple single page outlining a simple idea, while the “no” voices piled on and made a big deal about the fact that the Uluru dialogues that delivered the statement also canvassed other ideas which were detailed in other pages that have also been on the public record since the statement itself was delivered in 2017.
So, the length of the statement has become a political argument relevant to and possibly likely to influence the referendum vote on 14 October.
So, what does News Crap Australia do? It publishes – in what some readers might think is good faith – three turdbloid pages containing what it says is the Uluru Statement from the heart. (below)
But oh no. Far from a public service in good faith, the three pages are introduced with the line: “Here is the full version of the Uluru Statement from the Heart – all 20-plus A4 pages of it.” (below)
Then, right on cue, or Right on cue to be accurate, News Crap Australia comedy writer James Morrow piled on. (below)
Good faith? Yeah right. Sorry… yeah Right.
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Our MGH teams know that when it comes to covering court cases involving alleged murders there are some very strict rules to be followed to protect those who are facing charges and media outlets themselves.
One guiding principle of our great British justice system has always been that those charged with any offence are always to be presumed innocent unless proved guilty in court.
The recent death of a man on the Gold Coast and the subsequent charging of a Gold Coast City Council member with murder is a case in point.
In court the Crown prosecutor revealed that the charged man had made internet searches about what charges might flow from killing someone in self-defence.
The prosecutor said the searches were “not a linchpin for the case but they are relevant circumstantially”.
So basically we all need to wait for any trial to hear the full circumstances of the online searches and how such information might be relevant, all while maintaining the presumption of innocence.
But what did News Crap Australia’s daily Brisbane turdbloid do with the information. It did this…
Now all of our MGH researchers freely admit that none of them is a lawyer. In fact they all say so very proudly.
But they do think that The Courier-Mail headline draws a blatant and direct line between the accused’s internet searches and the death of the other man.
The only presumption the paper seems to have made is the link between the two events.
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