This article is an instalment in a new series, Punted, on the government’s failure to reform gambling advertising.
Bill Shorten said the quiet part out loud last week on Q+A:
We got ourselves in this wicked situation where now some of the free-to-air media need gambling ad revenue … in order just to stay afloat … free-to-air media is in diabolical trouble.
That’s the discussion we’re not having.
He needs to read Crikey more closely.
“This is not a story about gambling. It’s about the media,” wrote Bernard Keane as he kicked off our recent series Punted.
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