Media grasping at straws


WHEN a French journalist raises questions about family ties between the Prime Minister and his Defence and Acting Transport Minister, you know the foreign media is really beginning to run on empty covering a story that has gripped the world.

At the daily press briefing on Wednesday, reporter Carrie Nooten claimed that the authorities handling the investigation of the disappearance of MH370 had denied “reporters freedom” and criticised the many days it took before it was officially confirmed that the MAS Boeing 777 was deliberately set off course.

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