Sep 09
30
What You Don't Read In The Papers…
What this headline should say is, “What you don't read in the papers in one place but do read in another…”
This morning I stumbled on this story in The Guardian newspaper:
The story, as is evident from the headline, details the water shortages in the most southerly city on the Australian mainland. And for many people around the world this may just be another climate change story from the dryest continent on earth, and therefore not surprising.
But for me, sitting in New South Wales, where it is very dry too, by the way, what was really disturbing was that there has been no reference (that I have been aware of, anyway) to this story in the local newspapers, nor on the nightly TV news. And I am a pretty avid consumer of mainstream news along with exploring some of the more alternate news sources online.
I wonder if someone in Canberra has had a quiet word with the Editors in Chief at the big news outlets and said in effect, “The powers that be in Canberra would really appreciate it if you could play down the whole water shortage thing in Adelaide. People are feeling very concerned about water, and with the NSW government now more on the nose than ever before, we think that it would only spook the horses if we have a lot of speculation about water shortages…”
And God only knows, in NSW at least, there seems to be a sense in some of the media at least that they have to bring down the state government before worrying too much about anything else.
People are starting to join the dots though. We are all starting to understand just how interdependent all organiazation are, and the people who work for them.