"[Current Affairs TV shows] still rate really well in Australia. They do hard reporting (but) they have a kind of tabloid magazine format. Morally, they go beyond the pale a lot of times. There's trickery involved in getting stories. They'll pay money, you know, as we've seen with Bruce Lehrmann. But ethically, they fall short at times and the networks get sued."
#NathanJolly, Deputy Editor, media news website Mumbrella
"What I discovered is that... [pharmaceutical corporations] don't, by and large, invent medicines. They behave like hedge funds. They buy the rights to produce medicines that have been made by others - with public money, or at small biotech companies - and then they squeeze the most they possibly can out of those drugs Whatever the consequences are to society... [or] how unaffordable they are."
Dystopian fiction: promises catastrophe with: flying cars, spaceships, alien encounters, hyper dense cities, advanced medical technology and prosthetics, and/or post-apocalyptic communes
Current reality: promises catastrophe with barely any homes available, no flying cars, no spaceships, countries without healthcare, and with richbois selling useless trinkets
Musk had been meddling in American foreign policy, on behalf of the Russians, against the Ukrainians. And now suddenly, what Isaacson wrote Musk did has been changed in The Washington Post - to make Musk look a little less guilty of violating The Logan Act.