Originally Posted by
Baa_Baa
Apologies for cherry picking your post, but I don't think that's the core reason for their panic now, which can be seen in the shrill commentary across all mainstream media right now, that enjoyed the largess of Govt funding 'with compromise' of their core fundamental principles of journalistic unbiased factual integrity.
It is because they know that their funding has dried up, gone, and they're all marginal viable businesses, which without said funding are at risk of going broke.
All of them are looking at an annus horribilus that their motives and integrity were bought-off by the money that the government at the time threw at them, and their behaviours in response which are on record for anyone to see, and now, their lifeline funding is about to be rescinded.
A desperate situation for the media who chose funding survival over preservation of the integrity of the fourth estate.