TV journalist and broadcaster Karl Stefanovic cast his departure from Nine’s Today Show as a win for “free speech”, a framing the world’s richest man Elon Musk endorsed with “wow”, to millions on X.
But this is not a story about free speech or censorship. It is about journalism and influence. Stefanovic represents a high-profile example of journalistic laundering: the transfer of journalism’s hard-earned credibility into a rapidly growing alternative media sphere.
