Monday, October 29, 2007
TAKE THAT, PAKENHAM!
The ABC’s Media Watch boldly exposes - well, re-exposes; Snopes beat them to it by more than a year - an apparent pro-military myth circulated by the Pakenham-Berwick Gazette, a Sunshine Coast blogger, and a politician’s website.
Yet when invited to expose an anti-military myth that ran everywhere from the Guardian to the Sydney Morning Herald, from the New York Times to the ABC, this was Media Watch’s response:
Why don’t you do the work to investigate this turkey yourself, and publish the results in your column?
Still, they’ve taught the Pakenham-Berwick Gazette a lesson.
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