It is so eerie watching SA covid outbreak unfold exactly like it did in Victoria. All the contributing factors that were never focused on in Victoria (because Dan bashing) are all at play here. Casual cleaners. Insufficient testing. Big families. Multiple vulnerable workplaces.
All the focus in Victoria by the biased media pack - not just Murdoch - all the outlets - was on Andrews and contact tracing. This narrative was perpetuated as a political narrative, starting with Morrison himself. Look what you missed! A thread 👇 https://twitter.com/Vic_Rollison/status/1317624376129286144?s=20
Because media missed all these contributing factors by focusing on Andrews (and Sutton!), the community didn't understand these risks either. South Australians have basically been told for months that what happened in Victoria was all Andrews' fault so couldn't happen here.
Media reporting of the Victorian second wave was toxic, one-eyed, missed the complexity of pandemic, undermined confidence in health restrictions, politicised the crisis, put unnecessary pressure on public sector, made Victorians feel worse and bred complacency in other states.
Was there anything positive that came out of Peta Credlin using Victorian covid media conferences as her own political play thing? No? And you wonder why 500,000 have signed a petition calling for cancerous agenda-setting Murdoch media to be called to account. This can't go on.
Can you all sense my rage today? Media coverage is meant to inform the audience. The coverage of the Victorian covid second wave has exposed the worst of the worst of the Australian media institution. And we're all suffering because of it. Now it's SA's turn.
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