This week’s Radio National Media Report features an edited speech by journalist Phillip Knightley addressing the topic: “Is the media in the business of the mass-producing ignorance”.

Phillip Knightley is an ex-pat journalist was who worked for Frank Packer’s
Consolidated Press and Keith Murdoch’s Herald. He then moved to London, and
has had an illustrious career, twice being named journalist of the year in
the British Press Awards.

He is the only journalist, apart from John
Pilger, to have won the award twice. He shares his thoughts on his career
and the future of journalism in this program.

The program is called “Reflections of a Warhorse.”

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