Introduction -- The constitution, the law and the media -- A media council -- How news is made in Australia -- The principles of good broadcasting -- Ownership and control : the Fairfax case -- Feeding frenzies and vendettas -- The alternative-talkbalk targeted -- Talkback targeted yet again -- What is to be done?
Summary
What has happened to Australia's media? Having abandoned diligent and unbiased reporting, campaigning journalists have become unelected and unaccountable participants in the political process, requisitioning the airwaves of the public broadcasters as well as the columns of once great newspapers