NP...I agree !!
Apart from Ben Sandilands and Crikey! no-one else wants to listen to us .......
AJ.......
"Hi, I'm AJ and I want to spend a zillion dollars advertising my product with your media outlet, but I'm not comfortable spending that amount of money at a time when my company might be receiving negative reports in your media".
Media Editor....
"Hi, I'm the editor, and as a fiercely independent media outlet we publish everything WE CONSIDER to be "news-worthy". Let me give you an example Mr J....If the CEO of one of Australia's biggest companies says something, we would consider that news-worthy and publish it. On the other hand, Australia has hundreds of unions with thousands of union-officials, releasing tens-of-thousands of media releases, we cannot possibly publish all of those media releases, and even if we did, I cannot possibly envisage how they would be important enough to be in the first 20 pages (10 minutes) of our papers (shows)...nudge-nudge-wink-wink.........."
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