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quizzicalTopic: big media
One gets a perspective on the Sydney Daily Telegraph's, and to a lesser extent SMH, to federal ALP (and indeed NSW Police) policies to curb social dependence on alcohol.
Here is our count of full page adverts since 21 May 2008 in the Sydney press with maybe a few misses. We counted 17 full pager adverts in the SDT and 3 admittedly broadsheet size in the SMH [not including 2 more pages in the Telegraph today 4th June 08 before we saw our copy]
Notice the targetting of the Young Labor, and even more notably NSW Police Commissioner Scipione who is a teetotal (like this writer for a few years now).
Notice the attacks on the police in other directions over Cronulla riot and police bungle in a drug tragedy. Mmm.
Recently we also posted this which seems timely to repeat in full:
Wednesday, 7 May 2008News Ltd HQ in Sydney keeping afloat 10 pubs all within 500 metres?
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Topic: big media
To get an understanding of the Sydney Daily Telegraph loyalty to the big alcohol industry one can look to their full page adverts, with a sample here:
Or one can notice articles like this:
29 March 08 Drinking under attack from the new wowsers | The Daily Telegraph
5 May 2008 Laws to ban drinking at home | The Daily Telegraph
5 May 2008 Reader's Comments: Radical laws to ban drinking at home | News.com.au
and this
Or one can read extracts of the Latham Diary about hard drinking news men with 'scores to settle' with loads of people.
Or one can simply take a little tour of the neighbourhood in which their multi-storey headquarters taking up a full city block is located. Which we did:
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Which just left us to take the first picture above of a totally coincidental street frontage - a local fancy dress shop - also very close by. Quite a metaphor for the mask that News Ltd wears regarding legal drugs.
