A nice simple and easy post here driving into one of my pet hate areas. Media bias and the influence of advertising in major news organisations. Reading the dailytelegraph.com.au website I am drawn to an article discussing John Hartigan's recent comments.
He took aim at news editors and journalists who have "self interests as their primary ambition" rather than readers' interests.
Taking a phrase from former US president Richard Nixon, Mr Hartigan said news needed to cater for the "silent majority".
John Hartigan would do well to have a quiet word with his editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph regarding his sports editor Phil Rothfield. In a recent interview with the SBS journalist Philip Micallef Phil was only to happy to point out that it is the advertising dollar and not the "Reader's interests" which drive the content of the telegraph's sporting section.
The Sydney Morning Herald throws a lot of space at rugby union because they get a lot of money from rugby advertising, we give rugby league plenty of space because we get a lot of money from rugby league advertising.
What an indictment on News Ltd's journalistic integrity.
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