Amy Remeikis

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7am · “Get the b*tch”: The political dirt units targeting journalists · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

But then on the other side of that, you have like the, I suppose, the unprofessional dirt units, which tend to be a lot more vicious, which tend to go outside the bounds of anything anyone would print.

And the purpose is not to discredit that person publicly because they know that these stories won't go to print anymore.

It's to try and start a bit of a campaign behind the scenes.

Maybe stuff pops up on social media.

Maybe the whispers start being made around your colleagues or other people within your work circle.

Maybe it's just something that you know people are talking about more broadly or even that you know that they're hunting for dirt.

And that is designed to intimidate you into silence.

In terms of the more insidious dirt campaigns that get run, it's hard to say how effective they are because you'd never truly see them.

So you don't know if a journalist was thinking about running a story and then didn't because, you know, they received some personal threats or they just felt that the personal cost was too high.

I personally don't know any journalist who has been targeted who has not still done their job and gone just as hard after whatever it is that's in the public interest that somebody knows about a political party or a political operative.

But that's not to say that it doesn't happen.

The other way that we see this happening is not necessarily even direct what we would consider threats.

Sometimes it's just very powerful people who are monitoring everything that is said in media.

And if there is somebody who misspeaks or who is not quite as tight in their language as they should be when describing a situation, there'll be a letter sent.

fired off from that organisation or that person to all of the bosses.

And that happens, you know, quite frequently, all of these little micro complaints.

And it creates this sort of situation where it's easier in some cases to just not talk about it than to deal with what you know is going to be the barrage of correspondence that follows a mention of that particular person, organisation or issue.

I think it's a threat to press freedom.

I think that it's something that people should be speaking about more openly because it's one of those cases where sunlight is one of the best disinfectants.

It's something that other journalists should know that they're not alone in and that it's not something that they're going through alone.

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