Four Corners’ Smuggling Circus Freak Show fails investigative framework
“Four Corners has now well and truly established its own “me too” Canberra-derived national discourse of Evil Smugglers’ stories, a media freak show that started with commercial television serials, cheapskate sensationalist so-called “investigations” with overblown claims, a must-see freak show that has now also become established at the ABC – all of them failing to address how Canberra’s manipulative avoidance of people in transit in Indonesia is building, sponsoring and sustaining people smuggling as an industry,” WA Human Rights group…