Ben Sandilands latest:
The ‘not the Qantas’ news brought to you by the ABC
Posted: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:41:50 +0000
The ABC has led mainstream media into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of Not Qantas nonsense that Real Qantas has been struggling to reconcile itself with in terms of official statements since a minor incident at Sydney Airport on Wednesday morning.
To quote from that story:
Qantas says the Boeing 737 with the flight number QF50 that made an emergency landing at Sydney Airport on Wednesday was not really a Qantas flight at all.
The plane was flown by wholly owned, New Zealand-based Qantas subsidiary Jetconnect.
We’ve been there for a while now, including yesterday, in relation to the Jetconnect tax and wages dodge involving an allegedly totally independent NZ company that just happens to be completely owned by Qantas and even calls itself The Spirit of Australia.
But the indifference of the mainstream media to anything about Qantas that doesn’t come predigested and Chairman’s Lounge friendly in a press release has at least been given a shake by the national public broadcaster. This is refreshing.