Guy Smiley speaks out over media sensorship
“Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Thirty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan uttered these famous words, setting into motion a chain of events that brought down the Berlin Wall and ending decades of oppression and division. Stemming from these events was a golden age of progress. A period that saw growing equality for minority groups worldwide.
A new dawn had risen (or so we thought). Instead, the rise of the Murdoch media machine (and their subsidiary Kunyung Cup Media), led to a monopolisation of power in the news landscape. A market of information saturation, where only the loudest voice can cut through the 24-hour news cycle. A new dawn, indeed.
“Just another one of Rupert’s puppets.”
As the sun sets over Kunyung Primary School oval, one man stands tall. Guy Smiley, news renegade, will not be silenced.
“Oh, I’ve got stories,” Smiley mused with a knowing chuckle, “stories you wouldn’t believe.”
Smiley would not be moved on any of these stories, but he did confirm that he had sources “very close” to the captains of both the Ranelagh and Moondah teams.
“Let’s just say, there’s no spin here,” he added.
Smiley was forthcoming however, when pressed on what prompted him to go public.
“I have a duty to expose the truth when it is in the public’s interest.”
“He (Ranelagh captain, Tim Drummond) is not the man you think he is. He’s just another one of Rupert’s puppets.”
Smiley was tight-lipped when pressed to elaborate on these claims, but insisted that he could back them up, and would do so in due course.
As we departed the beachside hamlet that was built by Murdoch Press partisanship, he left this nugget: “Follow the money.”
