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quizzicalTopic: big media
Last Monday 7th April 08 the Daily Telegraph grasped the nettle ... sort of ... regarding binge drinking amongst youth turning up poisoned in hospitals, and used their front page to blame their parents:
Parents face tough laws to curb drunken children | The Daily Telegraph 7 April 2008
Which is convenient given the many full pages of grog adverts only 3 days later.
The Sydney Morning Herald are still in moral confusion mode about their own full page grog adverts living off the revenue of this highly deceptive legal drug trade.
See for instance this front pager:
Cyclist tells: I slid into alcoholic hell - Beijing2008 - Sport ... 7 April 2008
Sports should 'drop booze sponsors' - Breaking News - SMH 20 March 2008
No such qualms anymore over at Holt St. They probably decided it's really the parents fault rather than the huge sophisticated advertising industry over a cold one at a nearby boozer like the Evening Star Hotel (aka Evil Star), or maybe the Shakespeare Hotel, or Stawberry Hills Hotel, or the other 4 pubs nearby their office? Maybe they are indeed being more honest in their own revenue addiction than the Herald?
