Rupert's great organ of quality content - "The Adelaide Advertiser" has been at it again.
South Australia has a new "Thinker in Residence" and this time it is Fred Wegman - an international expert on road safety. At his introductory press conference last week he mentioned a few things that he wanted to look at - including the possibility of reducing speed limits to 30 km/h in SOME places. Big mistake Fred.
So "The Advertiser" ran an article inferring that Professor Wegman wanted to introduce a 30 km/h speed limit.
They did this because they knew it would generate outrage and fill their letters pages with bogan responses to Fred's *proposal*.
They wanted to generate a few more sales of their newspaper but might have ended up by cruelling the best opportunity in a generation to get the road safety programme back on track and into the 21st century.
This is what happens regularly in "The State of Excitement" and why the people of South Australia have a reputation for being anti change. Because on slow days their local newspaper *manufactures* the news.
All to add a few more dollars to Rupert's outrageous salary.
And you wonder why it is known as "Rupert's little joke on the people of Adelaide"?
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