Opinion: Novak Djokovic didn’t have to be the biggest news story in the nation this week | MargaretSimons
Times of crisis force us to reconsider the assumptions and routines that in normal times we regard as part of the natural order. This week, the assumptions of my own profession, journalism, have been on display.
Any journalist can tell you why. A fundamental of the business is that news is new information. Novelty beats business as usual. Continuing horrors retreat too easily into the background, and into the territory of things that must be accepted – a seemingly natural order. They wrote that journalism’s first obligation was to the truth, and its first loyalty was to citizens.
Without Australia’s professional journalism, we wouldn’t know about casino corruption, abuse of the disabled in care homes, or car park grants rorts, to give just a few examples. And all that is in some trouble. We no longer agree on the facts. We no longer conduct our public conversation standing on shared ground.
When the supermarket shelves are emptying and the hospital wards filling, when all of us are either sick or know someone who is sick, when keeping things moving relies on RAT tests that the government didn’t obtain in time or in sufficient numbers, it has been possible to believe that the biggest story in the nation is the travails of Novak Djokovic.It’s not only about the journalism. A characteristic of this government is rigid control of information.7.
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