the Liberal Party has given away tens of billions of public dollars to the executive and shareholder class - their donors and their base - and squandered billions more in unrealised efficiency dividends, and these cracked units bothsides it over to Labor.

press gallery journalists to a man and woman presented another Morrison gov minister announcement - ie comms strategy - as “good news”. Imagine reporting what actually happened: Liberal politicians concede they created a techclusterfuck literally the size of this continent.

the rule that when they speak they lie holds, but it is of very general application. A more refined rule is that when they say jobs they are shouting and screaming desperate lies of mammoth proportions which gallery journos then obediently repackage to sound vaguely coherent.

while Turnbull personally undermined tech journalists and other experts who offered sound, fact-based analysis of his endless opposite day lies and bullshit about giving free money to Telstra shareholders for copper wire that we all used to own and we paid for in the first place. https://twitter.com/ozfacts/status/1308722795140980737

be under no illusions. It is obvious to anyone who looks that Murphy, Coorey, Crowe et al value their place at the private, cliquey cabinet table briefings over any form of actual journalism, let alone ethical, public interest journalism.

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/feeding-the-chooks-scott-morrisons-marketing-triumph-over-mainstream-media/