If an Australian journalist were murdered in Gaza, who would write their obituary?
Who would report and mourn their death?
Not any of their colleagues—Australian journalists working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press".
How can I be so sure? It's simple:
#ThisIsNotJournalism
🧵
Who would report and mourn their death?
Not any of their colleagues—Australian journalists working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press".
How can I be so sure? It's simple:
#ThisIsNotJournalism
🧵
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Fundamental rule for journalists, with this horrid, glaring exception.
The death, or more accurately, the MURDER of a journalist is a story all other journalists should cover, because without a free press our democracies are silently ended.🧵
#Gaza #FreePress
It's unimaginable, but try to imagine if over ONE HUNDRED Australian journalists had been murdered in less than two years. 🧵
Yet hundreds of Australian journalists are deadly silent instead.
Which tells you everything you need to know about the mainstream media's🧵
When journalists do not, or can not, or will not speak of the wholesale, continuing slaughter of their colleagues and fellow professionals, of the *deliberate* silencing of the free press, it tells you all you need to know.
It doesn't matter 🧵
Sadly, it also means that the professional integrity of most of our so-called 🧵
I can only ask them:
"Who do you think will write *your* obituary, or mourn if you were murdered"?
Clearly it wouldn't be an Australian journalist working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press".
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism