Press watchdog rules The Age misrepresented Tony Abbott’s Holden comments
The Press Council has ruled than an opinion piece in The Age on the state of Australia’s car manufacturing industry contained a “substantial misrepresentation” of remarks by Prime Minster Tony Abbott.
The media watchdog, who declined to reveal who lodged the complaint, concluded that the interpretation by writer John Legge of Abbott’s comments did not accurately reflect what he had said.
The article, headlined “Auto report is a fantasy with a tragic twist”, and which appeared in February, discussed the PM’s reaction to Holden workers losing their job.
“Abbott….said they should be grateful they were liberated from slaving on an assembly line, moving to living off Newstart and Work for the Dole,” the opinion piece read. “If this sort of liberation will suit Holden workers on $60,000 per year including overtime, how much more delightful it should be for Productivity Commission analysts on three times that. It can’t happen soon enough.”
You mean Fairfax would write something baseless and inflammatory about the PM? I refuse to believe it!
The Age published this several days ago.
http://www.theage.com.au/victo.....3axvn.html
Letting their hatred get in the way of the facts. Typical Fairfax.
Fairfax have lost the “reasonable middle class people” of Australia. It’s sad, but instead of growing, they’ve concentrated only on managing their decline.
Hardly news. No surprises whichever way one reads it.
We now live in a world where bullshit, sex, lies and spin are occasionally interspersed with journalism, and every once in awhile, good journalism.
Rumour had it that at one time Fairfax considered taking over holden and actually making cars. The only problem was they always steered to the left – tragically!
Bloody ‘eck. Just as well the Murdoch press would never do such a thing.
@ Just Askin… two wrongs don’t make a ‘right’.