This Election it's The People against the Media.
- Pat Hornidge
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 11, 2022
The 2022 Election Campaign is only two days old and already the media is betraying the people.

The major story of the beginning of this election should have been the Position of Alan Tudge, Schrodinger's Minister. Both stood aside from Cabinet and a Cabinet minster, both Education Minister and Minister without Portfolio, both guilty of no misconduct and responsible for a secret $500,000 payment to his ex staffer because of misconduct.
His position is another blatant lie. But the media has passed on the opportunity to investigate this, relying simply on the phrase "We don't know what's happening here". And that's insulting to the public. It is the job of journalists to know or to find out. There are half a million dollars and a disgraced minister who have been put in the two hard to investigate basket. The media, on day one, have failed. And now they must be held to account.
Instead of this story, the media was yesterday obsessed and almost addicted to Albanese not knowing the Unemployment or the Cash Rate. It led every news bulletin. It's front page news today. It's an easy story for unimaginative Journalists to spew out, without even thinking.
Nowhere was it pointed out that the Official Unemployment rate of 4% is a complete lie. This of course would have required some journalists to have critical thinking skills or an ounce of imagination, rather than simply relying on whatever the Bureau of Statistics has been told to say.
The real unemployment figure is closer to 9%, with around a quarter of the population underemployed. These are not good figures, but the media don't report them. So they remain unknown. Interrogating figures is now too hard for the media class.
Another question the media have failed to ask is, how many people who are officially employed are below, at or barely above the poverty line? Once again this has also been ignored by an overwhelmingly lazy Upper Middle Journalistic Class who know little about modern struggle in Australia; insulated as they are from it.
They might still redeem themselves, if we force them. They might reveal the struggles of people who will suffer no matter who wins this election. They might investigate secret Government payments to staffers. They might work out what job Alan Tudge actually has. They might even do their job for once. But this type of actual investigative reporting, that only the media is in a position to do, will only happen if the public makes sure it does.
Otherwise they will sit in their comfortable chairs, writing cliche after stereotype, betraying the people, while letting the undeserving steal this election.
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