From a very, very low bar, the already threadbare professional reputations of mainstream Australian journalists is now completely trashed.

Johan Scheffer

@Johan_Scheffer

From a very, very low bar, the already threadbare professional reputations of mainstream Australian journalists is now completely trashed. To stand by while one of the greatest and bravest US journalists of our time is silenced in Australia is unconscionable and a betrayal of the public. This capitulation to the dark interests and manipulation of a foreign supremacist entity is shocking, not because it is unprecedented, but because it is so breathtakingly unashamed, performed in full view, in the light of day. From here on, every pretence of National Press Club office bearers, such as

@janeenorman

,

@annajhenderson

,

@andrewprobyn

, to name but three, and all members of the Club, to report a genuinely researched and interrogated version of the truth is a charade. Let us hear no more of the censorship and shortcomings of the controlled media of so-called authoritarian nations. This is how it happens here. Surely

@ChrisLynnHedges

is exaggerating when he says that Lt Colonel Maimon will be replacing him. Surely, the auditorium of the

@PressClubAust

will on the 20 October be empty and silent, the podium, draped in black, in solemn respect, bearing the name, 'Chris Hedges', marking the further capitulation of what passes for journalism in Australia.

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@ChrisLynnHedges

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The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israel lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of

I was scheduled to give a talk at the National Press Club of Australia on October 20 called “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists.” It was to focus on the amplification of Israeli lies in the...

10:16 AM · Oct 4, 2025

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