When I arrived in Sydney in 2004, the Sydney Morning Herald was everything a newspaper should be - especially in a country with the third highest concentration of print media in the world - next to China and Egypt, which are STATE OWNED. Well not anymore - the 2021 version, owned by Channel 9, with ex-Liberal party treasurer Peter Costello as its Chairman, is a bigger Liberal party propaganda machine than the Murdoch press itself. This morning alone I ran into three blue sky puff pieces, about the joys of swimming in Balmain, outdoor weddings and kayaking, designed to put a positive happy spin of the appalling mismanagement of COVID in NSW by Liberal state premier Gladys Berejiklian. For shame.
