Sunday’s episode of ABC Insiders showed viewers exactly what media bias is all about and how, come election time, even some of the most respected journalists can fall into the trap of playing double standards.
Despite some criticism of the Liberal government’s election campaign, more of the discussion focused on gotcha moments than actual policy.
Political Editor for news.com Samantha Maiden began the discussion by declaring that Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese needed to “sharpen up”, having days earlier been unable to provide the exact statistic of people currently unemployed across Australia.
In the same breath, when referring to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Maiden merely stated that he had committed a “blunder” at not knowing the price of bread and milk.
Maiden’s false equivalency between the two failings shows just how the media’s bias against the Labor party has flourished over the years.
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