The Post is a reminder of Australia’s dangerously precarious press freedom
NewsMediaWorks CEO Peter Miller argues that the fine display of journalism depicted in the The Post might be in danger if the Turnbull Government’s proposed espionage laws go ahead.
Last weekend I took myself off to The Orpheum at Cremorne, surely the best cinema in Sydney, to watch The Post.
I enjoy a political thriller more than most and still enjoy re-runs of All the President’s Men, released in 1976. The Post, set in the early 1970s, is another political thriller of rare quality and, I reckon, importance.
Freedoms need exercise. I wish our media didn’t more time demonstrating their ability to deliver. Instead they yabber in about the idea of freedom endlessly.
The Oz media section seems to have a hectoring column every week on this but that paper rarely surprises with a revealing story.
The abc had a huge opportunity with the filing cabinet dump and reported virtually nothing. (I note also that a lot of media went crazy on how they breached security, which is pathetic)
Irony of peter Miller writing this is that he was never himself a journalist.
To ‘Journalist’ (above).
Journalists don’t have a monopoly on recognising what a functioning, pluralist democracy requires and when it is under threat. Let’s leave the Fourth Estate snobbery at the door and play the ball, not the man.
Mr Orwell: I wasn’t having a go at peter. Was having a go at the industry he represents because it talks a big story but delivers not much. More irony in this actually, since I was effectively having a go at the people you call snobs.