Media Union Accused of Trying to Reframe ‘Truth’ Around Israel-Hamas War

Columnist Julie Szego has cut ties with Australia’s media union after it backed a joint letter—along with the national public broadcaster—for journalists to provide more coverage of the “immense and disproportionate suffering” of the Gaza population as a result of the Israeli military campaign. Ms. Szego, a former columnist for The Age newspaper, said the letter effectively called for journalists to distort the truth and provide favourable coverage to Hamas. “Once a finely tuned ‘BS detector’ was considered an attribute of good journalism, but now too many in the progressive media see it as a tool of oppression and weapon of ‘harm,'” she wrote in The Australian newspaper on Nov. 27....