The last weeks and months in Australian journalism demonstrate that all is not lost, says “The Gadfly” columnist
ROBERT MACKLIN. “Against the odds, investigative journalism lives on despite the forces of repression that would bury it forever.”
IN his 2018 memoir, “Reporter”,
the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh, who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq, wrote these perceptive comments:
Robert Macklin.
“The newspapers of today far too often rush into print with stories that are essentially little more than tips, or hints of something toxic or criminal.
“For lack of time, money or skilled staff, we are besieged with the ‘he said, she said’ stories in which the reporter is little more than a parrot. I always thought it was the newspaper’s mission to search out the truth and not merely to report on the dispute… Was there a war crime?”
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