A recent cartoon by Bill Leake in The Australian gave me a good chuckle, although not for the reason you might expect.
Captioned 鈥淭he Road to Ruin鈥 and featuring references to the recently published book of the same name, there was Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at his local newsagent picking up 鈥渉is鈥 morning papers, sighing while saying 鈥渏ust the papers thanks鈥. The papers were the Sydney Star Observer with the headline 鈥淢arriage Equality special edition鈥 and tucked in behind it was a copy of 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
The Australian
麻豆传媒 Weekly is marking its 25th anniversary this week, which is a truly remarkable achievement for an independent paper without corporate funding 鈥 and one that could not be achieved without a lot of hard work over many years by more people than could be named.
Reading Rupert Murdoch's Australian is always educational. For instance, exposed a media gang that represent 鈥渂y far the major media presence in Australia and, from their bully pulpits, they present a common position on most social, economic and political issues鈥.
News Limited鈥檚 flagship newspaper, The Australian, said in a September 2010 that it wanted the Greens to be 鈥渄estroyed鈥. The paper鈥檚 latest attacks on Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, which include allegations she held secret meetings with a high-level KGB spy 40 years ago, confirm that its editorial bias hasn鈥檛 budged an inch.