Aussie MP Attacks Media Bias

Australian parliamentarian Michael Danby slammed the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for their coverage of Israel. His commentary was published in the Australian Jewish News—which hasn’t updated its web site yet. However, The Australian picked up on Danby’s broadside:

The newspaper yesterday ran a news story, an opinion piece by Labor’s Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby, and two cartoons all lambasting Fairfax titles.

“The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are highly influential newspapers, and their systematic anti-Israel bias has a real effect on public opinion in Australia,” Mr Danby writes in AJN.

Mr Danby is particularly critical of The Age’s editor-in-chief, Briton Andrew Jaspan.

“Under its current editor, The Age’s liberalism has morphed into a peculiar sort of bitter and twisted extremism, borrowed from UK paper The Guardian.”