Peter Dutton calling the ABC and the Guardian ‘hate media’ rings alarm bells for democracy
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
In front of a crowd of party faithful last weekend, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton referred to the ABC, Guardian Australia and other news platforms as “hate media”. The language was extreme, the inference being these outlets were not simply doing their jobs, but attacking him and his side of politics because of ideological bias.
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