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How to be a journalist in one easy lesson

Martin Lehmann - 4 April 2001

You can save yourself three years of politically correct indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.

  1. Learn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
    (All of the following were used in media reports in the last few days. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)

    Sparked (the most important word in a journalist's vocabulary), as in "sparked anger", "sparked uproar", "sparked outrage", "sparked a war of words".
    caved-in
    backflip
    exposed
    blamed
    threatened
    warned
    sent shockwaves
    shattered
    pummelled
    taken a hit
    rolled over
    attacked
    intimidated
    undermined
    killed
    spinning dangerously out of control
    the death toll from a tragic ........,

  2. Look for stories of crisis, conflict, and catastrophe. If you can add sex, money and big names, you have a lead story.

  3. Adopt a left-leaning, politically correct attitude with a touch of world-weary cynicism.

  4. Part of the duty statement of a good journalist is to bring social justice to the downtrodden and under-privileged (provided they are non-white). Be ready to apply the "racist" tag to any white person or group that cannot see the benefits of this great mission. It is an incredibly powerful word. It will stop most non-believers in their tracks. However, the racist tag is to be used exclusively against white Anglos and is never to be applied to any other racial or ethnic group.

  5. Do not write stories that reflect unfavourably on Aboriginals, ethnics, Muslims, Asians, multiculturalism, feminism, homosexuals or unions. Forget your code of ethics. You are on a mission to correct injustices and balanced reporting is not necessary in these special cases. Learn the politically correct language of Aboriginal reporting. It is not correct to report that 3% of the population commit 50% of the violent crime in Australia. The correct line is "Aboriginals are over represented in jails". Get it? Be ready to fiercely attack any person misguided enough to denigrate Aboriginals or Asians.

If you can master the above you are ready for a career in journalism. If you excel at points 3, 4 and 5, you may even be invited to join Australia's leftie, bleeding-heart elites at the ABC, SBS or Fairfax.

 

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Press Council head slams media "feeding frenzy"

The media have gone into a "feeding frenzy" over independent MP Pauline Hanson and were to blame for the resulting damage to Australia's reputation, according to the the head of the Australian Press Council.

Professor David Flint, addressing the ninth conference of the Samuel Griffith Society in Perth on 27 October,  1997, said such damage could not be blamed on politicians.

"It was media indulging in its own fantasies, believing its own stories, which turned Ms Hanson into a spectre stalking the land", he said.

 
Media create the "race debate"
Styled as the 'race debate', it was never a debate among average Australians. It was written, orchestrated and performed by the media.

The media have peddled the idea that Australia is an racist country so widely that our Asian neighbours are beginning to accept this twisted reporting as fact and the media have now placed Australia in a precarious position. - Author Helen Dodd
 

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