The French Submarines Saga & The Australian Press

Growing up, I used to look up to journalists and newspapers. I remember religiously saving my pocket money to buy paper copies of Le Monde, and cutting press articles on specific topics that I wanted to further research. I was keeping them in a folder, writing a chronology of proven facts, and trying to form an opinion based on it. The quality of the press was something I was taking for granted. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that I needed to read different publications to distinguish facts from opinions and get rid of belief and prejudice, but I never doubted the fact that…