The Alan Jonestown Massacre

[ataxi]

Link (to Philip Adams op-ed piece)

Saw this on Media Watch last night as well. In brief:

• ABC Enterprises sets down $100,000 of funding for Chris Masters (Four Corners reporter) to write an unauthorised biography of Alan Jones.
• After four years of (supposedly "meticulous") work, Masters completes the book.
• Alan Jones' associates get hold of

Comments

[conradin]

I still love Rod Quantock for saying that the ABC could be run by Marx and Lenin and it wouldn't counter the right wing bias in the rest of the Australian press.

[ataxi]

There would probably be a section on impressive beards in the mission statement though.

[ataxi]

Eh. Thought you were changing your journal (I expected a new username or something) ...

[ataxi]

It's just electronic communication. I get what you mean without offering judgement, and besides, contempt is one of my favourite things.