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It was a toss up whether to put this article in this thread, or the Joke thread.
Lisa Wilkinson to leave the 'Project", due to targeted toxicity by parts of the media. ?
Maybe she should read her husbands articles, if she wants to check out targeted toxicity. ?
It's funny when people who spend their lives attacking people, in the name of a story, get bent out of shape when the roles are reversed.
The media, the scourge of humanity, at the moment IMO.

Lisa Wilkinson leaves The Project, blames media for ‘targeted toxicity’

The presenter, who had sat on The Project desk for five years, will remain with Network 10.
www.smh.com.au

Hubbies nice take on various people:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-claims-Israel-Folau-captained-Wallabies.html

Peter FitzSimons: Rename Margaret Court arena due to anti-gay stance

Peter FitzSimons says Margaret Court Arena should be changed due to the tennis legend's anti-gay marriage stance - and has suggested an Aboriginal icon take her place.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Peter FitzSimons slammed over 'disgusting' comment

Veteran journalist Peter FitzSimons suggested Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny politicised a visit to Hillcrest Primary School, in Devonport, on Saturday.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Feud between senator Jacinta Price and Peter FitzSimons continues

Aboriginal senator Jacinta Price claims author and columnist Peter FitzSimons sent her a series of late night texts demanding she retract accusations she felt bullied by him in an interview.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Paul Kent savages Peter FitzSimons over scathing NRL swipe

The rugby league journalist has slammed the outspoken former Wallaby's scathing attack on the NRL.
au.sports.yahoo.com
 
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A few have left the "project" simply because the dumb stuff they say cops criticism and starts to damage their "media reputation".
Engage in culture war die in culture war.

I'm noticing a few starting to step back from the more extreme end.
 
moXJO said:
A few have left the "project" simply because the dumb stuff they say cops criticism and starts to damage their "media reputation".
Engage in culture war die in culture war.

I'm noticing a few starting to step back from the more extreme end.
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They need to, way too many media personalities seem to think that there are no limits to what they can say on air, in the name of journalistic license.
Self censorship in the media IMO, has just opened the door to the media making its own news and any relevance to fairness and objectivity has been lost.
IMO it has led to the rise of self opinionated, ego driven, over paid, trash peddlers.
 
If thats the case, I would think theres more than a few media personalities on ASF.
mick, not in the media and my friends all say I lack personality.
 
mullokintyre said:
If thats the case, I would think theres more than a few media personalities on ASF.
mick, not in the media and my friends all say I lack personality.
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Yes but ASF general chat, is tucked away in a corner of stock forum, it's not rammed down the general publics throat in prime viewing time or interspersed among actual news articles in the newsprint. ?
 
Well who knows, maybe the penny is dropping, that people are getting sick of T.V personalities ramming their opinions down other peoples throats.

Will Waleed be next? Peter Helliar departs The Project after eight years

He joins other high-profile co-hosts Lisa Wilkinson and Carrie Bickmore who have recently announced their departures from the Channel 10 show.
www.smh.com.au

They say bad things come in threes, and for the team behind Network 10’s flagship current affairs program The Project, that seems to be the case.
Peter Helliar, 47, announced at the end of Tuesday’s show that he was leaving The Project after eight years as co-host. His last episode will be on December 7.
 
I thought I would just check up on how the mainstream chat shows which have an obvious bias are going, as I don't watch any of those shows because the better half controls the remote.

Well it is good to see that the general public is waking up, by the way I don't mean woke, which seems to be a new name for people with a very narrow focus and an even narrower ability to self appraise, you know the ones that want clean energy but run multiple T.V's, A/C's and drive hummers to take the kids to school .?

Anyway back on topic, this was interesting, Q&A which used to branch stack audiences and give everyone a hymn sheet, seems to have lost favour.

UPDATED | ABC in full panic mode as Q+A faces the axe

Despite public opinion Aunty leans in
tvblackbox.com.au
 
Arvo sptrawler
Gave up watching Q&A many moons ago, bit like Dr Phil, Springer, and others BORING
 
farmerge said:
Arvo sptrawler
Gave up watching Q&A many moons ago, bit like Dr Phil, Springer, and others BORING
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sptrawler thank good ness it is warming up then we can sit outside with a bottle grape nibbles and watch the incoming planes, and the night sky. For us anyway the best way to enjoy the evening
 
farmerge said:
sptrawler thank good ness it is warming up then we can sit outside with a bottle grape nibbles and watch the incoming planes, and the night sky. For us anyway the best way to enjoy the evening
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You are spot on @farmerge , we certainly are lucky to live in such a great place, don't tell anyone.
The last thing we want, is a bigger population.
 
sptrawler said:
You are spot on @farmerge , we certainly are lucky to live in such a great place, don't tell anyone.
The last thing we want, is a bigger population.
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Too late. Have you seen what's happening between Upper Swan and Bullsbrook, and what is planned?

...and that's just in my sand pile. Satterly has big plans up @farmerge 's way too, just has to find the right place palms to grease there.

Tons of expansion going on in other areas of the city is well.
 
Must admit, I haven't been up that way for about 6 years, everything in my family has been South of the river and out to the Goldfields, having said that South of the river between Cockburn and Mandurah is going stupid as well.
 
Waynet there a 10000 acre block north east of us, privately owned and the owner has no living relatives. Tried to get it made into a new sub division some years ago but was stopped in his tracks. This was back in the day when a couple of high fliers tried to make Gidgrgannup into some bigger, and that was stopped also, fortunately. I guess it is only a matter of time before suburbia is worse than it is now up this way.
 
Waynet theres a sizeable chunk of dirt over the road from Pearce I did a lot of fencing on the joint years ago. Housing all around on three sides Huge acreage just waiting to be carved up. I know the brothers that own it, will be a multi-million dollar job. Just like the dreadful one in Stratton. Lyle Lindau long gone trotting owner/trainer used to own the 100 acres, is just a sea of houses and growing in size each day. Must at leat 6-8 to the acre
 
Yeh the media for the last 6 months have been going on about how hard people are doing it, get the RBA to apologies, poverty street is back, now the latest figures are out.
New headlines, spending is up everyones having a beano, maybe the media should apologies for depressing everyone?
Of course they will be right eventually, blind freddy can see that.

Dining out, travel and cars in ‘last hurrah’ of big spending

Australians splashing cash on discretionary items has helped drive annual economic growth to 5.9 per cent – but the treasurer and analysts warn it won’t last.
www.smh.com.au
Australia has weathered the first increases in official interest rates due to big-spending households keen to eat out and head overseas, but analysts are warning it is the last hurrah before the economy starts to slow.
The economy expanded by 0.6 per cent over the three months to September, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, despite a 36 per cent jump in the interest paid by households due to three separate interest rate rises by the Reserve Bank.

Eat, shop and be merry. But the party is about to end

What’s clear is that we are spending up on stuff we want rather than stuff we need. But the headwinds facing shoppers next year will hit cyclone-like levels.
www.smh.com.au

It may be as good as it gets for the Australian economy.
The national accounts show consumers have, despite high inflation and the Reserve Bank’s warnings, been having a jolly good time perhaps with the knowledge that the situation is going to get tougher in the not-too-distant future.
 
There may be change on the horizon, who knows?
Would a computer analyzing the facts and generating an opinion, be any worse than a reporter doing the same thing?
I personally doubt it.

I’m a computer program and this is my opinion​

Artificial intelligence is poised to replace most journalism in the near future – at least if you believe ChatGPT, the AI tool taking the world by storm.

And an article a few years ago.

And the Pulitzer goes to… a computer

Computer-generated copy is already used in sports and business reporting – will machines soon master great storytelling?
www.theguardian.com
 
So many influencers use them for content creation.
There's an avatar one as well.
 
It's getting worse, an opinion, of an opinion, of an opinion, of an opinion. Maybe people need more happening in their lives. ?
Samantha Selinger-Morris, talking about Jeremy Clarkson, talking about Meghan, talking about the media.

Does Jeremy Clarkson’s attack on Meghan prove the couple are right about the media?

The Sussexes said in their documentary that Meghan was targeted by the UK media. The latest Jeremy Clarkson column attacking Meghan shows they were right.
www.smh.com.au

It is the latest whirlwind of damage in the never-ending hurricane that is the Duke and Duchess of Sussex versus the media.
Jeremy Clarkson, one of Britain’s most influential media personalities, has written a bile-filled column arguably inciting violence against Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, published on Friday in British tabloid, The Sun.
 

Can't read it unfortunately, paywalled.

Sounds juicy though.

Clarkson is an entertainer, I don't see how his opinion is worth more than anyone elses, although I do miss him and his daggy mates.

As far as the Sussexes go, they were given a hard time by the media but who really cares, they are better off than 99% of people in this country anyway.

This is what Clarkson wrote (or part thereof anyway).

 
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