Media blackout—Business Spectacular, 20 April 2009
November 6, 2009
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Commentary
10:42 AM, 20 April 2009
Keith Orchison
Is it getting easier to fool the media? The Sydney Morning Herald joined a large media chorus today when it reported: “Electricity consumers and environmental groups have reacted angrily to an announcement by the NSW Energy Minister, Ian Macdonald, that power companies will be allowed big price increases to pay for the largest energy expansion program in the state’s history.” A great story, but I have news for the SMH, the ABC, the Sunday Telegraph and any other media outlet that published this story. The NSW Minister for Energy did not really announce on Sunday that there would be “sweeping reform” of state government-owned power networks. He did not really announce expenditure of $18 billion over the next five years to upgrade and replace infrastructure.
