Last year Julia Gillard told journalists at the National Press Club: “Don’t write crap. Can’t be that hard.” Was she right to characterise political reporting in this way? Should Australia’s media’s standards be raised? Is regulation an answer? George Megalogenis from The Australian, ABC Online writer Annabel Crabb, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter Hartcher, the Federal Opposition’s Communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull, and former press secretary to Kevin Rudd, Lachlan Harris, tell the ABC’s Barrie Cassidy what responsibility the media bears for our political culture.
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