Media virus spreads
Itching for a beat-up!
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That ian improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing,the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominatedby Journalism.
Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
It was Intellectual Herpes! Like the contagious virus it is, it started with Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report and spread instantly throughout the main-stream-media, infecting the weakest and least informed members of our nation’s Fourth Estate. Even the country’s most respected journalists caught it. And they were all scratching like mad as they dashed for a headline.
The headlines varied but all inferred that…
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