I see that the media editor of The Australian, Sharri Markson, attended lectures at two Sydney universities and decided students were being led to form a critical view of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (owner of The Australian).
According to Markson, "the indoctrination" in a lecture at Sydney university "focused on News Corp's power and its impact on journalism, irrespective of the fact it is one of the largest employers of journalists in Australia."
She also reported that one lecturer taught students that the 2013 election coverage by News Corp's papers was driven by a corporate fear of the national broadband network (NBN) — "a claim that has no factual basis and is incorrect."
(I need to point out that Murdoch has called the NBN "a ridiculous idea" and The Australian judged the first rollout of NBN, in Tasmania, to be "shambolic" and "abysmal").
Markson's article didn't impress Emma Lancaster, a postgraduate journalism student at Sydney's technology university. She wrote: "I'm inclined to think that Markson's undercover operation into the classrooms and lecture halls of some of Australia's best journalism schools was not only a lazy beat-up but an unwarranted ideological attack."
She added: "I have only ever been encouraged to think critically about what makes news, how it is made, and why we report on the things that we do."
I await a visit from an "undercover" News UK reporter to my own lectures at City University London where, of course, I treat Murdoch and his organisation with due fairness and without any trace of bias.
