Why Clive Palmer's lockdown ads can be rejected by newspapers on ethical grounds
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
AAP/Jono SearleClive Palmer’s United Australia Party advertisements inferentially objecting to COVID-19 lockdowns demonstrate one more way in which the freedoms essential to a democracy can be abused to the detriment of the public interest.
Democracies protect freedom of speech, especially political speech, because without it democracy cannot...
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