The national broadcaster’s news director Gaven Morris fell into the trap of parroting News Corp’s ‘inner-city elites’ sledges. Not a good move.
The Australian media has undergone unprecedented structural and ideological change over the past quarter-century. As it fractured and balkanised, so too did our political climate.
In an unvirtuous cycle, the more partisan, shrill and dishonest our media becomes, the more degraded and cretinous our political culture becomes.
Like a slowly boiling frog, Australians have come to accommodate the…
