Fairfax reporter Jonathan Swan tweets that “multiple sources” tell him the mood in Kevin Rudd’s office is “toxic” But while it’s worth tweeting, it’s not worth reporting to readers of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald: Swan told The Australian he did not report the story elsewhere because “they were unnamed sources and that didn’t seem like stringent journalism to me”. Having unnamed sources hasn’t stopped Swan in the past from quoting them: A senior minister has told Fairfax Media that the only certain effect of Mr Rudd’s “revenge mission” has been to send the ALP’s stocks into the basement, guaranteeing that Tony Abbott will be prime minister after the election… One MP told Fairfax Media he thought the ballot would be held on Thursday and that the party was heading for disaster if it did not go to a leadership vote. Having an unnamed source hasn’t stopped Swan from “understanding” something that turned out to be untrue: A logistics company that stands to profit from the Coalition’s ‘’tent city’’ on Nauru funded the trip of its immigration spokesman Scott Morrison to the remote island to announce the plan to house up to 2000 asylum seekers in tents. It is understood Toll Holdings chartered the flight for the Coalition and News Corporation.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:51:38 +0000
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