Dear Samantha Maiden,
Your hit piece on Honi Soit was a letdown. Politicians are chosen to lead us and to speak on our behalf as our representatives. Journalists, in a similar way, write to be seen and heard by the public, crafting narratives that give voice to their audiences and shape how their stories are told.
A metaphorical bushfire is raging through Australian society: the deafening silence of the liberal mainstream media on the atrocities unfolding in Gaza.
Your refusal to speak out is as tone-deaf as Scott Morrison’s infamous “I don’t hold a hose, mate” during the Black Summer fires, as if to say, “I won’t type a single letter to acknowledge a genocide unless it suits me.” Instead you go on a school girl rant about how they uninvited you from their event.
