Why does Australias media love Clinton and hate Reagan?
By Gerard Jackson web posted November 29, 1999 Rather than write on the state of the US economy I thought further reflections on the curious phenomenon of the Australian media’s obsessive defence of Clinton’s behavior and its refusal to report on his scandals. Now Americans who believe that the media has a moral duty to report facts as honestly as it can have a justifiable complaint against the standard of reporting. But pity poor Australians. At least Americans have access to a range of conservative oriented magazines and papers while Australians have no genuine alternative because left-wing groupthink literally pervades the whole of our media. Though the fall of the Berlin Wall is a watershed in history that symbolizes the collapse of the Soviet empire, I could not find a single editorial or column in any Australian paper or magazine that credited Ronald Reagan with contributing to that momentous event. Not one. The situation is so bad regarding Reagan that it is incredibly rare to f
