Update: 4350water blog: QWC standoff - QWC complains to newspaper - journalist volunteers to cover other stories ...
Update: The thought police at the QWC apparently burst a blood vessel when they read the comments linked to this blog post. Seems the QWC complained to the newspaper editor (again!) - correct the blog comment - the journalist volunteered not to cover any recycled water stories.
See - Comments - journalist volunteers not to report on water issues.
Now if the QWC wasn't complaining about coverage in the newspaper in the first place, there would be no need to contact the newspaper on multiple occasions and no need for the journalist to volunteer not to cover recycled water stories.
Whichever way you look at it, the QWC is trying to interfere in the publication of stories which it does not like and which do not sell its message.
Maybe Media Watch would like to take a look. Here's their email - Media Watch contact.
By making further complaints to the newspaper, it turns a single day story into a much bigger thing.
Didn't the QWC learn anything at PR school ...
Original post (edited):
Is the Bligh government so desperate to try to control the message that they would pressure newspaper editors and prevent the public being informed of both sides of the debate?
See - Comments - journalist volunteers not to report on water issues.
Sounds like the Toowoomba City Council and the pressure it applied from time to time to the Chronicle ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:30 PM
4 Comments:
Good luck trying to shut down the blogs - the Toowoomba council tried that and failed.
1:53 PM, September 02, 2008
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6:26 AM, September 03, 2008
Freedom08 wrote (edited):
I've heard that the State Government employs several hundred journalists as spin doctors, which I find difficult to believe. However, when you list every government department and the various commissions eg Qld Water Commission, I think the number is not so amazing. What is amazing is the lengths the Queensland Government will go to to make sure the media 'gets the right message'. Every day those departments fax and email out 100s of messages to media outlets. Let's not forget that in the case of the Qld Water Commission, they are the front door for billions of dollars in water infrastructure from ***** ***** like ***** ***** who pay the University of Queensland millions of dollars to set up a study course on recycling sewage so they can sell it back to the public and or state government.
10:01 AM, September 03, 2008
Where have you been for the past decade or so? Have you not noticed before this that the Beattie and Bligh governments were heavy with PR types. That the QWC is just a PR machine?
10:08 AM, September 03, 2008
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