The Australian was just surfacing ‘differing opinions’ when it made comparison between Greens leader and Hitler, Michael Miller says. Plus: fourth-generation Murdoch logs on
ews Corp Australia’s chief, Michael Miller, has defended one of his newspapers likening the Greens to the Nazis – and its leader, Adam Bandt, to Adolf Hitler – as the media just doing its job, which he says is to “surface differing opinions”.
Hanson-Young alleged Miller and his fellow witnesses, Nine Entertainment’s Mike Sneesby and Seven West Media’s Jeffrey Howard, were being hypocritical by pitching for the regulation of social media while taking no responsibility for the media’s role in disinformation and division. The editor-in-chief of the Australian, Michelle Gunn, did not respond to a request for comment earlier in the week but the online headline has been belatedly changed to: ‘These duplicitous modern Greens are wolves in sheep’s clothing’, taking the reference to Hitler out of the headline but not the article.
Patrick, perhaps wisely, decided to use his middle name as a byline rather than his surname for reasons which will soon become obvious: Aidan Patrick Murdoch is one of Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s three children. Annabel Crabb was next, saying in another letter to the editor Stevens was “one of the good guys”. “I do not entertain doubts about the news judgement, hard work, bona fides and emotional intelligence of Stevens, who does what is almost certainly the toughest job in Australian journalism with a lack of ego that is remarkable in this notoriously ego-infested field.
While the charming turn of phrase appeared in the newspaper, it had disappeared from the online article later on Thursday, without the addition of an editor’s note to explain the change in copy.
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