CHRIS ROPER: Independent Media: the real bad news
A recent open letter by Business Report’s executive editor lays bare the deep-seated issues at Independent Media — and the damage management has caused both to the group’s real journalists and to the media as a whole
06 April 2023 - 05:03
The Bob Dylan song Idiot Wind is ostensibly about his relationship with the media. It goes something like this: Someone’s got it in for me / They’re planting stories in the press / Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out quick / But when they will I can only guess.
It could be the soundtrack to the execrable journalism that is going on at Independent Media...
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