Comments on: Crikey Says http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/crikey-says/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Marilyn http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/crikey-says/#comment-5587 Marilyn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5587 My problem with Jaspan and some of his journalists is that one of them made up interviews, lied about sources, invented stories about a refugee family and when I presented all of the evidence to Jaspan the journalist was not even chastised. Even though the family were illegally deported to the wrong country without papers and dumped to die in the snow and even when a more senior journalist got to the truth of the Bakhtiyari family and even when the letter from the Afghan ambassador to Amanda Vanstone turned up showing that the government knew they were from Afghanistan all along and proving that the journalist lied. He is still allowed to operate for the Fairfax papers and it sort of turns your stomach. My problem with Jaspan and some of his journalists is that one of them made up interviews, lied about sources, invented stories about a refugee family and when I presented all of the evidence to Jaspan the journalist was not even chastised.

Even though the family were illegally deported to the wrong country without papers and dumped to die in the snow and even when a more senior journalist got to the truth of the Bakhtiyari family and even when the letter from the Afghan ambassador to Amanda Vanstone turned up showing that the government knew they were from Afghanistan all along and proving that the journalist lied.

He is still allowed to operate for the Fairfax papers and it sort of turns your stomach.

]]> By: martin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/crikey-says/#comment-5588 martin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-5588 Eric's chicken little routine would be more credible if he had, ever, done something himself (other than pile up cash through his small empire of glossy real estate blurbs). One could argue credibly that the rot at Fairfax began with their obsession with people like Eric and their passion for lifted ideas from the New York Times Lifestyle section. Not to menion vastly inflated designer sections. All of it at the expense of a commitment to and priority for the stuff that Eric has never done: writing and editing news journalism. Talk it up Eric. Eric’s chicken little routine would be more credible if he had, ever, done something himself (other than pile up cash through his small empire of glossy real estate blurbs). One could argue credibly that the rot at Fairfax began with their obsession with people like Eric and their passion for lifted ideas from the New York Times Lifestyle section. Not to menion vastly inflated designer sections. All of it at the expense of a commitment to and priority for the stuff that Eric has never done: writing and editing news journalism.
Talk it up Eric.

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