Michael Pascoe: Australia’s biggest gambling operators be warned – media pack is baying as one

It has taken an escalation of disclosure of the gambling industry’s malfeasance to finally get the media pack on the case, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: TND

Often enough, a single news organisation will crack an important story or begin a worthy crusade and the rest of the media ignore it – and the story or crusade dies a lonely death, having achieved somewhere between nothing and not much.

Partly it’s the ‘Not Invented Here’ syndrome, partly it’s a journalistic distaste for doing follow ups on someone else’s scoop, partly it’s a churlish determination not to acknowledge the perceived opposition, sometimes it’s because management is ideologically or commercially opposed to the thrust of the yarn.