http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/has-anyone-seen-premier-nathan-rees/story-e6freuy9-1225766159121
NATHAN Rees' own staff yesterday made the stunning admission they don't know where he is, as a key Labor powerboker told the embattled Premier his leadership is over. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Labor kingmaker Eddie Obeid met with Mr Rees and told him he should consider resigning.
Mr Rees has not surfaced since taking a week-long holiday on Saturday. Bizarrely, the official line from Mr Rees' office yesterday was: "I don't know where he is." Mr Rees' office said: "I understand he is going away with his wife Stacey within the state, and is spending some time at home."
This is the utter zenith of quality reporting from The Daily Telegraph is it not? I have some fundamental issues with this running on the front page of the newspaper.
Firstly. The man is on holiday (Perhaps you should actually listen to what people tell you, News Corporation. Is that really too hard?) . He probably doesn't want to be contacted and certainly not by the likes of News Corporation, who when they'd find him would probably harass the heck out of him and then publish some ill-researched smear campaign anyway. In terms of journalistic prowess and ethics, the Telegraph ranks a close second behind people like Robert Mugabe, and this surely isn't helping their cause. Me thinks that maybe this was a slow newsday; what better way to shift newspapers than dragging a politician's name through the gutter?
Secondly, if The Daily Telegraph had actually bothered to do even the most basic of research, they would have seen two cars in Mr Rees' driveway, like I did this morning. I pass by his house on most days of the week, and I can tell you that he had a 98% chance of being at home and dare I say it at circa 06:33am was probably still in bed asleep or else starting his morning. The MP for Toongabbie lives in Wentworthville, though that's obviously too far for the people at News Corp to drive.
I say good on Mr Rees for going about his business without the likes snot-nosed guttersnipes finding him. Look News Corporation, if you can't be bothered to do the research, then to be honest, you don't have the right to be morally indignant about it.
Addenda:
This Roy Morgan Research paper is worth a read if you have the time. It more or less agrees with the low opinions that Australians have with their media.
http://www.roymorgan.com/resources/pdf/papers/20040903.pdf
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