Truth has endured a blustery week. We’ve heard that one of the world’s most powerful media proprietors, Rupert Murdoch, acknowledged in hindsight that the stolen presidential election narrative being promulgated by his serially overwrought Fox News hosts was false, and yet that false claim was allowed to stand on his network.
Closer to home, the exploding cigar that is the former cabinet minister Stuart Robert acknowledged he loyally promulgated the official cabinet script about robodebt and income averaging while harbouring what he characterised as a “personal view” or a “personal misgiving” that contradicted much of what he was saying in the public domain.
