How can Tim Fischer escape the “racist” tag Mr Media?
In the interests of fairness you would expect the mainstream media to report on the following comment by deputy prime minister and National leader Tim Fischer yesterday as racist, “They have become giant bureaucratic blood-sucking (Aboriginal) land councils which take away from smaller communities resources and flexible infrastructure and leadership. I am not satisfied with the structure of these councils.” Of course the media won’t. The comment rates with anything that Pauline Hanson has said about ATSIC but is treated with a sense of objectivity which shows the chasm separating the way One Nation and the major parties are dealt with by the journalistic pawns of Murdoch and Packer. If Pauline Hanson had said that the headline in today’s Courier Mail would have, based on their track record, been something like “More racist taunts by Mrs Hanson”… but no, instead it reads “Fischer blasts ‘blood-sucking’ black councils”. Fischer’s comments got up the goat of ATSIC Chairman Gatjil Djerrk
