Labor Waste

 Labor Ministers are getting touchy about waste:

SENIOR Gillard government ministers are “sooks” waging an unsustainable and petty war against the media, experienced political strategists said. Upset with unfavourable coverage of the $308 million set-top box program, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy took the unprecedented step of undermining journalists who work at The Daily Telegraph by threatening to publish communications between them and his office.

Journalists at The Australian were also targeted, and on three separate occasions this week Senator Conroy’s media adviser Lyall Johnson sent to all media press releases containing detailed answers to questions generated exclusively by The Australian.

Mr Johnson then said it was a media strategy he would adopt with The Daily Telegraph as well.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the strategy applied only to The Daily Telegraph and The Australian. Political commentator and former John Howard chief of staff Grahame Morris said that the move was a “vindictive and stupid way” to treat the media.

Read the rest here: The press feels ire of Labor ‘sooks’ | thetelegraph.com.au.

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