The profitability of key areas of the Australian media depends on government advertising. The business model of the MSM requires complaints with the government on key issues. Journalists know that their current and future employability depends on conformism.
The independent press died with the old Fairfax company. The late Sir Warwick Fairfax allowed his editors to commission investigative journalism. This threatened a range of villains across the entire Establishment, including the ALP and the Coalition, organised crime, big business, corrupt police and the US Gov't (remember Nugan Hand and the CIA heroin trade?). The royal commissions into corruption and espionage were a gigantic headache to the elite...some of the findings are still embargoed (I think). After Sir Roderick died his son and heir, young Warwick, was IMO set-up and encouraged to make a corporate take-over. He ultimately failed, the company was sold off and the 'troublemakers' were out in the cold, to the enduring relief of the villains. Australia has never been the same since.
The profitability of key areas of the Australian media depends on government advertising. The business model of the MSM requires complaints with the government on key issues. Journalists know that their current and future employability depends on conformism.
The independent press died with the old Fairfax company. The late Sir Warwick Fairfax allowed his editors to commission investigative journalism. This threatened a range of villains across the entire Establishment, including the ALP and the Coalition, organised crime, big business, corrupt police and the US Gov't (remember Nugan Hand and the CIA heroin trade?). The royal commissions into corruption and espionage were a gigantic headache to the elite...some of the findings are still embargoed (I think). After Sir Roderick died his son and heir, young Warwick, was IMO set-up and encouraged to make a corporate take-over. He ultimately failed, the company was sold off and the 'troublemakers' were out in the cold, to the enduring relief of the villains. Australia has never been the same since.