How are we to understand the pervasive journalistic arrogance of the Bruce Lehrmann imbroglio?

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The defamation case against Network Ten revealed media mediocrity plus a lack of self-awareness and humility. Many journalists should have known better

Brittany Higgins and media outside court in 2022. ‘Objectivity is not an innate characteristic of journalists,’ Margaret Simmons writes. ‘Rather, it is a difficult but essential discipline. It requires some sacrifices.’Brittany Higgins and media outside court in 2022. ‘Objectivity is not an innate characteristic of journalists,’ Margaret Simmons writes. ‘Rather, it is a difficult but essential discipline. It requires some sacrifices.

In pursuit of that aim the station was prepared to pay for the living costs of a credibly accused rapist and cover its conduct in entering the resulting story for a Walkley award. And that is before you get to the disputed I think the best way is to draw a distinction between the kind of journalism that achieves change through revelation of facts, and that which amounts to advocacy.

It is easy to feel sympathy for her. She was traumatised and devastated by indications that, despite her wishes, the story about her rape might be about to become public. “To the extent there were perceived systemic issues as to avenues of complaint and support services in parliament, this may have merited a form of fact-based critique, not the publication of insufficiently scrutinised and factually misconceived conjecture.”

 

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