Again you are spot on BR (as is David Icke). If you read
Nick Davie's excellent book
Flat Earth News you will discover how disturbing this is becoming.
I myself am now back working part-time in the Dark Arts as well..the media In Australia and the changes within 5 years are both alarming and extraordinary and have ramifications for the UK media as well.
There has been 150 year old publisher here of excellent newspapers-
Fairfax with their Melbourne
Age regarded as one of the great newspapers of the world. Many journalists go to Fairfax for the experience..move onto
News Ltd for the money and most get 2 year stints in the UK and USA publications.(
The Sun, NoTW, Times )
Fairfax is now controlled ( after it's split-up by the Fairfax family) by businessmen who have no experience in publishing.They have just given out generous redundancy packages to 500 journos and photographers ( profits in 2007- $200M ).
But those who grabbed the packages were all their most experienced and older workers..meaning sports writers who know everybody, great investigative journalists, photographers, the most experienced in stake-outs etc.They intend to publish quality newspapers with a bunch of 30 year olds.
Being businessmen..they have bought a half share in
AAP-the biggest news agency in the world..and the other 50% ?..owned by
Rupert Murdoch. So 2 publishers own the biggest news reporting agency between them and this is how they will operate..a story goes out on
AAP ( already with reduced staff) with the barest fact checking.Often the story is straight from a private business, government department or police media release.It will be printed verbatim and it's distributed around the world and journalists everywhere simply write the story, perhaps with a few personal changes..but no fact checking is done.
So when the story is complete rubbish or entirely misleading-it spreads around the entire world. And if there is a follow-up showing the facts were wrong..try to find the correcting story on page 39
if at all.
Case in point-a High Court judge in NSW was charged with perverting the course of justice over falsified driving affidavits. Huge scandal, judge hounded etc for weeks on end. I mentioned his name to friends a week ago to see their reactions..they gossiped ( as I would) about the case yet NOT ONE SINGLE person was aware the charges had been silently dropped 3 weeks ago.The press reports were so minute you need a microscope to see them.
Which brings me to..
whatever happened to Jersey and all those buried kiddie's bodies ?