Fairfax accused of forbidding coverage of protest rally as regional Australia faces job cuts
The journalists’ union has accused Fairfax of breaching its own charter of editorial independence by silencing coverage of a rally which saw 200 people demonstrate against planned job cuts by the media company in regional Australia.
Fairfax staff, union members, politicians and residents gathered in Wollongong to protest at the cuts proposed earlier this month by Fairfax’s regional and rural arm, Australian Community Media.
A dangerous precedent indeed – and right in line with views expressed in current piece here on stifling freedom of expression and ‘the spiral of silence’ effect :-
https://theconversation.com/social-media-sackings-risk-stifling-journalistic-expression-41824