I just received an email form MLA (Meat & Livestock Australia) requesting that I remove an article from the site. What it demonstrates is how powerful forces dictate what ordinary Australians read and see in the media.
The email is polite and no doubt in the MLA’s mind well meaning. However I won’t be removing the pictures unless of course an overwhelming number of our readers ask me too. You see unlike the mainstream media, MLA does not pay us 100,000’s of thousands of dollars for advertising each year.
As a result we are totally independent and publish what we think is appropriate. Yes the accident was terrible. Terrible for the driver, terrible for the Truck owner, terrible for the farmers who lost all of their cattle and terrible for the cattle.
But thats life in the bush. No body in the bush feels anything but sympathy for all those involved including the cattle.
If it had been a bus load of people instead of cattle would anybody have been asking me to “pull the photo’s”. No the media all over the world would be wanting to buy them to splash across their headlines.
Unfortunately no matter how organizations try and cover it up, its a tough and at times dangerous life living in the bush. It’s not anything like life in the city – so we should not pretend it is.
Let me know what you think? If the majority of you the readers think the article should be pulled – “I’ll pull it”. Its up to you.
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Tags: MLA, Truck Crash Photos
