Pixelated Semantics

And from grave concern to no concern....

One of the potentially most explosive stories in Australia's recent history seems to have suddenly become not newsworthy - very not newsworthy. The hostage drama reportedly involving Australians had a major development Friday, when Australian Embassy staff were reportedly involved in identifying a corpse found in Irak that was possibly an Australian victim. Saturday's Courier Mail seemed to miss it, and even a search of the site points to other news sites; Saturday's Australian mentioned it in passing on page 23 as part of coverage of international news reportage in the 'Review' section; and the Sunday Mail carried a couple of lines buried in another Irak story on Page 44 in the print version, failing to carry it at all in the online edition. This story, and all follow-up has been systematically buried or removed from publication in the last several days. The Australian press seems to have issues with allocating any space to a story that occupied the front pages until late last week. One could suspect that its not a lack of information but sensitivity to the Government during an election that keeps the story close to invisible. Interesting to observe the regional paper The Saturday Bulletin of 19 September printed a whole multi-paragraph story on page 9 dealing with the body and consular interest. More than a week later there is no follow-up to this story at all, anywhere.

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