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Article: How the media pack got it wrong.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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WITH THEIR USUAL alacrity, the Australian media hardly missed a beat before carrying on as if their behaviour, bias, and lack of recognition of reality during the recent election campaign had never existed. The mass of the press gallery has clearly learned nothing from the convincing demonstration of their collective incompetence by the Coalition's clear victory. Instead of admitting that they had got the election completely wrong, once again, the brazen pretence that really nothing unexpected had happened continued.
It would not be surprising if the shareholders of Fairfax, and the Principal Shareholder of News Ltd, were to start asking some questions about the ...