Media wields a lot of influence and media knows it. What it does with that influence is a bit of a tight rope to walk though, as we see in this week’s episode of Headlines Unspun.
Burt is dead - a 90 year veteran of the screen, an icon in many ways of Australian cinema and creating the Australian identity most recognised all over the world. Well that’s what the head lines would like you to think when you hear about the death of the 90 year old “star” of Crocodile Dundee.
The Bike lanes are coming to eat your children, marry your pets and usher in the end of days in the most biblical sense possible! Well according to the Post in Wellington, yet again…
And when is a season fluff piece not a seasonal fluff piece - when it shows you that a good keen fisherman was also an insurrectionist supporting, racism pushing, illegal Wellington occupier - who wants to kill the ecosystem he fishes in because science is bad!
