Can Mainstream Media Be Trusted and Saved? With Gerard Henderson

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On 19 April, IPA Senior Fellow John Roskam and author and journalist Gerard Henderson discuss whether mainstream media can be trusted or saved.

Gerard discusses:

00:03.36 The mainstream media’s colossal failure to report on the Cardinal Pell case objectively or competently

00:24:24 When and how Australian journalists have turned into activists

00:28:49 The future of the ABC

00:36:47 Opposition of Murdoch media

00:42:18 Peter Dutton and good political leadership

00:51:55 Conservative reluctance to discuss visions and ideas

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