In politics, perception is everything
May 21, 2008After reading so many political blogs, I’ve realised that perception is everything. For instance, during the Howard Government’s reign When Howard was in power we were told that we’d never had it so good. However, the facts do back up that statement - the economy was (and is) still buoyant and performing well.
A few months later, The Age is reporting about a petrol price rise. So one minute we’re told that Australians are prosperous and have plenty of money to spend. The next we’re told that petrol price rises will cause pain to Australian families.
Think about that for a minute.
It doesn’t make any sense. I used to think the job of a newspaper was to report the facts. Over the years I’ve seen a trend for newspapers to start peddling the political line depending on whomever was in power at the time. Thank god for my English Studies class during college, because being able to perceive the media’s ridiculous political spin has been a godsend.
