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- Title
- Why I won't be going to the 2020 Summit
- Author(s)
- Simons, Margaret
- Abstract
- Flattery is such a dangerous thing, and for a journalist it is particularly risky. The lesson of history is that the journalist with something to lose---the one who has been embraced by the powerful, whose career and sense of self depends on being well regarded---will be safe for those in power. Such journalists won’t take risks. They will be proper and acceptable, with an eye for their own reputation affecting what they write and how they write it. The historian Mitchell Stephens has concluded that once journalists have investments, good wardrobes and networks of friendship with the powerful, then they will probably be satisfied with an occasional exposé. Margaret Simons was trained and gained my experience in the belief that journalistic independence was very important indeed, and she still believes these things.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- The best Australian political writing 2009 / Eric Beecher (ed.), pp. 34-37
- Publication year
- 2009
- Keyword(s)
- 2020 Summit; Australia; Federal government; Freedom of the press; Government policy; Journalism; Journalistic independence; Media freedom
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press
- ISBN
- 9780522856323, 0522856322
- Publisher URL
- http://catalogue.mup.com.au/978-0-522-85632-3.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 Melbourne University Press.
- Peer reviewed
