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The brouhaha by journalists over the Voice to Parliament reflects the media’s craving for conflict. It’s not called the silly season for nothing.
This summer’s media stumbles over the Voice have revealed something its supporters have long feared: the major threat to its success is traditional media. Not through open hostility (outside the op-ed pages of The Australian, anyway) but because cowed journalists have taught themselves to squeeze any story into an all-conflict-all-the-time, Canberra-centred framing.
It would have been a summer of media slapstick if the subject wasn’t so serious: a skid on the banana skin of “details” thrown out by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, a face-planting pratfall tripped up by “sovereignty” all accompanied with a Chicken Little “The sky is falling!” shrieking from the commentariat (including *cough* some here at Crikey).
Thankfully, Australia Day brought a pause and an opportunity for a reset.
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