Drug price questionable
REGARDING the front page story of Northern Territory News March 1: “Police seize $3 million cannabis haul”.
(published)
sent to NT News.
Where do you get your pricing from? Is this a figure you just plucked out of thin air for the sensational value?
Or was this the figure provided by the NT Police?
Either way, it is so far exaggerated as to be pure propaganda.
Three million dollars for 30kg breaks down to $100 per gram, about four times the actual street value of the stuff.
If this is the price the police are expecting to get for it, then I’m glad I switched dealers.
Rob Fyffe, The
(NT News Editor) WHERE do we get the figure from? Well, Rob, if you read the story properly, you’d see it right there in the report. Drug Squad Superintendent Peter Gordon is quoted as saying “we believe (the drugs were) destined for Darwin and possibly remote communities where it could fetch … up to $100 a gram”.
1 Comments:
This was my response(as yet unpublished) to the editor's comment.
Dear editor,
I have no expectation that you will publish this, but I must call your attention to bad journalism when I see evidence of it in your paper.
You published a letter of mine re; your sensationalistic reporting of the estimated street value of the 30kg of pot.
You added an editor's comment in some vain attempt to make me look silly in having not fully read the article.
I can assure you, I read the article in full. Even between the lines.
In your comment you simply reiterate you sensationalism. Your estimated street value allows that all 30kg is sold in a remote community at $100/g.
At least the ABC took a slightly less sensational approach in placing the estimated street value at $2mil.
However a more realistic estimate of return would come in at around $1mil-$1.5mil. One third to half your reported sum.
Try being a NEWS paper, and acurately report news. Rather than being a tool, serving the Government, in their propaganda war on drugs.
A real newspaper, who employs investigative journalists, would expose the Government for their attempts to deceive the general public on such a serious issue as drug use in the community.
Your newspaper, however, is lazy and simply cuts and pastes press releases, with no investigation.
This makes you an accomplice to the deception.
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