Media Coverage Of Kylie Minogue: Circulation Or Compassion?

Even though coverage of Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer surgery been presented as compassionate concern for the singer, and for the millions of other women who have to face breast cancer, does the media coverage have a cynical motive – the need to sell more newspapers, and boost radio and television audiences? And shouldn’t anyone confronting a major threat to their health, whether or not they’re famous, be entitled to a reasonable degree of privacy? Those questions were examined by ‘Correspondents Report’, a weekly look at world issues, on ABC.net.au.