Published: February 26, 2019
The media is acting as an impediment to itself in reforming rules around open justice
Journalists are never so ugly as when absorbed by self-importance and vanity, when they assume that what is in their interest must necessarily also be in the public interest. Such attitudes, despite what they intend, weaken the case for necessary law reform.
Take the suppression orders that until Tuesday prevented the Australian media from reporting the December conviction of Cardinal George Pell on child sexual abuse charges. The reporting of the verdict has been accompanied by some spectacularly ignorant criticism of the judge, Peter Kidd, for suppressing the details until now.
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