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2010-05-20

Journalists confused sometimes

Comments on Ian Smith “Rogues' gallery of ill-mannered journalists”, 20/05/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rogues-gallery-of-ill-mannered-journalists/story-e6frg6zo-1225868875541

I also had the same feel that some journalists were acting too over the top and showed no respect of what best journalists should and could do to best service the public.

On the other hand, Hockey was a little too intimidated and not strong enough to defend or point out the flaws of those journalists.

Kerry O'Brien is one of my most respected journalists, I don't mean in any way to discredit him, but the question on whether Hockey’s abandoning the government's budgeted spending from the RSPT is real cuts or not, just show how confused sometimes even the best and brightest journalists can be.

That is the government budget and undoubtedly the baseline that the opposition has to rely on. What else can it use? To create a confusion by another non-budgeted and no source baseline? Was that those journalists want or wanted? Would those journalists pounce like a kill on that if that had occurred?

That is just a small and slight point compared to those journalists in the gallery who asked some bizarre questions yesterday.

Besides, the Rudd government kept the Henry tax review for 5 months before releasing it and the health reform plan was dripping out bits by bits over many days if not weeks or months. It was the NSW premier who demanded Rudd release its health reform plan in total that succeeded with some effects, not the journalists.

And now those journalists were demanding that Hockey to provide them with more materials half or an hour earlier!

What a joke!

However, most journalists, especially in Australia, are doing excellent jobs most of the times, reporting and informing the public and contributing to a much better society. It is only sometimes they also need some time to think about what is most important substance as opposed to what would be the best headlines or best opportunities to embarrass other people with no real or little benefits.

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