Why calling a 'lockout' a 'strike' is really bad journalism

And why the SMH should apologise

Part of the shock expressed on social media this week about the way in which the SMH covered the industrial action by NSW Rail was expressed as, this is the sort of behaviour we would expect from News Ltd.

I’ll say more about that aspect later, but first, let’s look at what happened.

Let there be no doubt. The SMH’s coverage was bad. They completely misre…