As Mark Twain said, writing long before the arrival of the internet, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has its trousers on.
Accountability
Abjorensen: The long, slow death of political accountability
As we drift ever closer to authoritarian government, neither the Liberals nor Labor can hold their heads high over the virtual demise of accountability. The ugly reality is that we have an ever worsening democratic deficit, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Shooting the messenger over the AFL drugs scandal
Leslie Cannold in The Age online today wheels out the good old cliché deployed any time the media come under attack for anything: “Are we shooting the messenger”? The question is raised over Channel 7’s conduct in publishing material from the medical records of two AFL players.
