A prize-winning reporter of the old school (we started as cadets on The West Australian together) has sent me a remarkable, and even alarming, document, “Donald Trump and the Liberation of News” put out for the instruction, or rather the indoctrination, of journalists and of would-be journalists.

This article, by one Lee Siegel, emanated originally from the University of Columbia Journalism Review and is distributed in Australia to the profession by the Arts and Media Alliance, trendy successor to the old Australian Journalists’ Association.