For the life of me I could not find one unfair or journalistically unethical word in last week’s SSO front page. Yes, it raised questions about this year’s NMG election – questions everyone connected to it has been raising. But what is wrong with a newspaper doing that exactly? Why spend 10 minutes berating SSO and trying to destroy their reputation? Especially when it’s clear NMG has an official partnership with a rival media organisation. It just seemed cheap and a bit of an insiped witch hunt.

In fact I felt an almost overwhelming urge to pick up the toys the NMG speaker had so dramatically thrown out the pram.

They do not listen to their members or the broader community and have proven again and again that they will make stupid choices for all the wrong reasons. I mean splitting the parade and party for the sake of an American cruise ship, with a couple of thousand onboard, that was coming in at the wrong time and therefore putting out the tens of thousands of others…pathetic. And don’t start me on the fact that they deliberately cut Melbourne from the Parade broadcast and denied a Tasmanian entry, due to having sponsorship from Tourism NSW.

I think good on SSO for speaking the truth and do not let their bully tactics stop you. There are a huge amount of people out there that are disgruntled with their behaivour and they are deserving of no less than objective and constructive criticism and as the media you have a responsibility to deliver that.

They don’t pay your wages do they?!

It is general dictators that try to stop free media reporting. Does NMG see the irony as an organisation that started about civil and political rights, to be trying to censure the media?