just need to get on with practicing the craft as best we can for the audiences we serve today. This book will serve well those training for that task. I wish them and the book well. This is an edited extract of a speech given yesterday by Mark Scott at the book launch of Australian Journalism Today, at The Centre for Advanced Journalism, Melbourne. Mark Scott is the Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He tweets @abcmarkscott . View his full profile here . Comments (465) Edge: RayS: 14 Jun 2012 9:03:14am I must say, I cannot understand why ABC journalists continue to react to vitriol in The Australian even if it is aimed at the ABC. Why react to something which would otherwise go virtually unseen and unnoticed? Most of the News media and especially political and social opinion in The Australian is intensely formulaic. Once you have read one of their rags a few times you know what to expect. The Australian journalists are cognisant of the groupthink they must exhibit and it's an adopted one patterned on the world view of an octogenarian who only recently acquired "humility". If you really want to read the grassroots Murdoch formula then stop at a McDonalds and pick up a free greasy copy of the Telegraph. Reporters there remind me of a shed full of chickens with hemorroids, whose endlessly rehashed frantic stories are eagerly consumed no doubt by the Convoy of No Continence as they honk their way