Fri Oct 28, 2022 – 1:59 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — When the dust settles, as it inevitably will, over the COVID fiasco of the last three years, Australian journalists will come to realize that they have missed the biggest story of their lives. By failing to ask any of the obvious questions and parroting the government and politicians’ line, they have turned the Fourth Estate into manure. There will be no going back.
A journalist’s job is not to pretend to have expert knowledge because they rarely, if ever, do. Nor is it to take sides. It is to report different views in a neutral and fair way. Or rather that used to be a journalist’s job. Now, it seems to be to have turned into the art of the lickspittle; it has become a vile propaganda arm of government.
A demonstration of the death of journalism has been provided by John Flint’s so-called “must read” investigative piece in the West Australian on October 2, entitled ‘What becomes of the anti-vaxxer?’ Flint’s intent is to attack Monica Smit and others of similar view. Smit was outrageously jailed for simply assuming she had the right to express
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