Religious Freedom and The Politics of Outrage
According to Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times Journalist Nicholas Kristof, the best way for the Mainstream Media to build audiences in this competitive digital age is by ‘reinforcing stereotypes and minimising nuance‘. [1] Well, we saw both these behaviours in the SMH and ABC reporting of the leaked Ruddock Report last week. Last Wednesday’s article in the SMH was titled ‘Religious freedom review enshrines right of schools to turn away gay children and teachers‘, an unfortunate title that framed the discussion from that point on. Sadly neither ABC’s ‘The Drum‘ nor ‘Hack‘ on Triple J did much to challenge that...