Press Council reprimands The Advertiser for misleading headline about SA premier Jay Weatherill
The Australian Press Council has censured South Australia’s The Advertiser for misleading the public in a story related to SA premier Jay Weatherill and energy minister Josh Frydenberg.
Published on 17 March in The Advertiser’s print edition as “BLOWING HIS FUSE: Sparks fly as Premier ambushes minister but exclusive polls reveal SA blames Jay for power crisis” and an online version titled “As Jay Weatherill confronts Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, poll shows he’s to blame for SA’s power crisis”, the article featured a survey poll from Galaxy Research.
Galaxy Research’s survey poll which appeared in the print edition of The Advertiser.
Fuck me, not a ‘reprimanding’! The horror.
Seriously – if Papers can get away with this then they will continue to do it. This deliberate lying is dragging all journalism down. When you no longer know what is news and what is political propaganda then credibility for the whole industry is at stake. We either need much more serious punishment for these papers, with significant fines or some other mechanism. Perhaps warnings on the front saying “This paper can’t be trusted!!”
The Press Council will never be able to issue anything more than a slap on the wrist. It’s set up and financed by the publishers themselves who will continue to treat it with contempt. The Australian recently decided it will boycott any decision involving a recently-appointed member…https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/australian-says-will-boycott-australian-press-council-decisions-new-member-carla-mcgrath-448778