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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Piers Akerman's ridiculous statment
One of the journalist quotes of the year must surely go to Piers Akerman when he said this morning “I don’t think my writing could be seen to be partisan”.Akerman was speaking on ABC Radio National’s Media Report in a program devoted to the media coverage of the Howard-Costello stoush.
It was a pretty interesting discussion between the program’s host Gerarld Tooth, SBS TV and Press Gallery president Karen Middleton, News Ltd’s Glen Milne and the aforementioned Daily Telegraph hack Mr Akerman.
They talked about crossing the line between commentary and journalism and whether Akerman and Milne had been taking sides in the PM vs Treasurer battle. And it was in that context that Akerman made his ridiculous statement “I don’t think my writing could be seen to be partisan”.
For Piers to claim that he is not partisan is about the most ridiculous thing he has ever said. And if you have read any of Ackerman’s Howard worshipping, right wing fanaticism over the years you’ll know that is one hell of a claim!
I mean, has Piers ever written anything that isn’t partisan?
But really, everyone knows Glen Milne is in the Costello camp and Piers is a Howard loyalist. Why don’t they just admit it and get on with it. After all, ‘disclosure’ is meant to be one of the high principles of journalism.
While we are at it, let’s have some reporting on what the actual policy differences would be between a Howard and Costello led Australia. My feeling is that Costello actually stands for very little. Remember his stupid Australia values speech where he claimed having paved roads was a key Australian value? Sum it up this way: he couldn’t be described as a conviction politician.
posted by Ben Oquist # 10:34 AM
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