Remembrance Day climax: Media revels in high profile sacking
"We want Gough". The sacked Prime Minister meets the press and demonstrators at the front of Parliament House Canberra hours after his sacking.
November 11 is the culmination of what feels like a long period of nostalgia in the media as publishers and broadcasters remember the tumultuous events leading up to November 11, 1975.
The media loves an anniversary, more so if it is linked to a high profile sacking. Those don’t come much bigger than handing a dismissal notice to an elected prime minister.
But any communication to an audience is carefully targeted. In the case of the 50th anniversary of the sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam the audience is an older generation and/or political nerds. I qualify for both camps.
