Spot on, David Fisher and John Töns.

It had occurred to me also that if the newsmedia did its job properly in Queensland an upper house would not be necessary.

Of course, from time to time they put up a convincing pretence of vigorous journalistic scrutiny of misgovernment and corruption, but vast areas of concern are not touched.

Note, for example the Courier Mail's blackout on news concerning the Queensland fire sale.

At least two significant recent protests were completely unreported and almost nothing has been written of it in over three weeks by my imprecise recollection.

The Courier Mail, having postured on a few occasions against what it held to be the dishonesty of the Bligh Government, but not privatisation itself, has quietly dropped any further reporting of the matter as the machinery to facilitate this blatant theft of public assets opposed by between 80% to 90% of the Queensland public according to various opinion polls, is put in place.

The Courier Mail could, if it chose, easily stop privatisation if it chose, simply by reporting on the issue accurately and by demanding answers from the Government, but, being itself pro-privatisation, as it has stated on numerous past occasion, it will do nothing.

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Another media Big Lie, unfortunately, but not untypically, not discused is 9/11.

The evidence that a cover-up occurred is conclusive and the evidence that elements within the US government staged the attack is almost as conclusive, but this goes unreported in the media. (see for example '9/11 Truth' discussion at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166&page=83)

The Courier Mail's editorial "We must stay the course in Afghanistan" of 17 August at http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25937746-13360,00.html again seizes on this lie to justify extending our involvement in Afghan war already 8 years old at least another five years.