Media Analysis: Exploiting Legal Privileges by Drug Dealers in Injecting Rooms

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1MEDIA ANALYSIS
The drug dealers in Australia becomes highly powerful in course of using the injecting
room as the hinterland because of the lack of power of the police within the injecting room. It is
identified as one of the major loopholes in dealing with illicit drugs and endangered the safety of
the local people. As a result of that it becomes an important aspect for the government of
Australia to reconsider its drug enforcement policies and the role of the policing to prohibiting
people from participating in drug abuse. Those aspects were clearly highlighted in the article of
Sakkal (2019) where the media pushed the government to take adequate actions and facilitating
stern guidelines so that this nefarious practice can be stopped. In this regard, the aim of this essay
is to analyse the media article on exploiting the legal privileges by drug dealers and the degree of
importance of the media in influencing the government.
The purpose of using injecting rooms was different from the present case scenario. It was
a benevolent idea to diagnosing the drug addicted patients in a more liberal and flexible manner
by giving them the opportunity to take drugs at a prescribed rat under the observation of the
doctors or experts. As a result of that in most of the developed countries where this kind of
treatment for the drug addicted people is necessary for channelizing the drug abusers to a
constructive manner. As a result of that the Australian government also put a bar on the policing
system under the issue of Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act (sl.nsw.gov.au 2017). As a result of
that it becomes a problem for the police to arrest people within the premises of injecting centre
even with offensive and illegal possession. As a result of that it encourages the drug dealers and
handlers to use the injecting centres as a free location to sell illegal staffs. This free pass is
endangered the local lifestyles as the local residents are claimed that they had seen a number of
drug dealers and handlers all the time in the surrounding areas of the injection facility. I
generates some sort of fear among the local residents and at the same time makes the police to

2MEDIA ANALYSIS
act as just a witness because the government regulations put a ban on their activities within the
facility. This is identified as one of the major threat for the motive of the people using injecting
rooms and at the same time questions the efficacy of the government policies to threaten the life
of the local people because of leveraging so high on the well-being of the drug addicts. It also
makes the police only a silent audience restricted by the red tape of the government. Therefore, it
is essential to ventilate the grievance of the local people and safeguarding their life, the article of
Sakkal (2019) is trying to share the news through the print media.
In this regard, there are certainly a rough decision making by the editor of the newspaper
because this is a sensational news that projected the inadequacy and failure of the government to
prevent potential threat of drug addiction. One of the major problem in the Australian society is
its increasing rate of illegal substance addiction. Therefore, this news articles shares enormous
value in the form of highlighting the loopholes to not only the society but to the government also
so that adequate decision making can be made as soon as possible and restrict the chronic growth
of drug abuse. Blanc et al. (2017) articulated that it is the very nature of news media that
illuminated the readers with rouge political discourses or manifestation which can leave a
detrimental impact on the society. The more the journalist ventilated about the issue the more it
questioned about the government involvement and its stand point. Henceforth, the article shares
a great value to the readers and the society. Moreover, it can be stated that an anti-government
voice would be generated through the article in a positive way. It does not mean that the words
of the article are inciting and controversial. It is not the role of the media to share its own vision
rather the primary task of the news media is to develop the insights of the people thorough
providing authentic information. From that point of view, it can definitely be stated that the

3MEDIA ANALYSIS
article of Geber, Scherer and Hefner (2016) is identifying the factual incident rather than
pointing out any political comment for or against the government.
In course of discussing the event, the writing was very transparent and easy to
understand. It seemed to be a traditional writing method of addressing a newspaper report. The
critical spectacles of the columnist is also commendable in such an extent. For instance, the
article clearly defined its stance against the improper government policy. The first paragraph of
the article clearly reflected that belief. In addition to this, Velugula‐Yellela et al. (2018) argued
that one of the important part of newspaper media article is to resonate the significance of the
news it the first paragraph so that the readers will care to read the full news. This trend has also
been seen in this article where the columnist provides some factual evidences like the volume of
dope that the dealers were carried by exploiting the legal loopholes. Moreover, the limitation of
the police to prevent people from making business with illegal substances like heroin. Therefore,
using the simple language with short sentence structure will help the public to understand the
proposition of the article and react accordingly. Henceforth, it can be stated that for influencing
the understanding of the readers the article has played a significant role. As a result of that it is
also important to identify the type of readers who will be interested in reading the political
columns. According to Huo, Yang and Xiang (2018) people who are highly fond of political
incidents are generally the primary target readers of this article. Apart from that the newspaper
eaters are also identified as the potential readers of this news. Enli (2017) advocated that the
newspaper eaters were generally read out all the news so there was no special column that the
preferred.
Based on the research of Zarza and Tan (2016) it can be stated that a good newspaper
article should have transparent objectives and the use of information logically so that the readers