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On commercial channels , yes.
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What your saying the ABC commentators are not self opinionated pratts. ?
These days it must be a prerequisite for the job IMO, "smug, self satifised dill", "self promoter, thinking he's marvellous and wondering why no one else does".
I've watched Q and A a number of years ago and that seemed to fit the presenter like a glove IMO.
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The ABC commentators are underpaid self opinionated pratts (compared to people like Stefanovic anyway).
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That's true, but they probably work for the ABC, because they lack any charisma, as well as being pratts. ?
If they had charisma, they could do what the others did and become politicians in the Labor party or the Greens, otherwise they just have to wait until they are too old to get a spot on T.V.
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Birds of a feather... Quite telling that even my twitter knows the politics of Michael West the Independent non-partisan journalist...
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Sure its not one of Elon's little jokes?
I read some of Wests material, but sometimes he misses his journalists basics.
For Instance, consider this piece where he advocates for a Royal Comission into Morrisons secret swearing in to multiple ministries.
The first problem is, the email is not reproduced, so we do not know who sent it, who were the recipients, in what context it was written, and who did the "advising'.
Without any of this information, his assertions are worthless.
Is this the best a well accredited journalist can come up with?
Later he says
Does he really think that Morrison could approve these deals without the acquiesence of Friedenberg plus all the other Cabinet Members?
The bloke is just pissing in the wind.
Whether these deals should have done is another issue, but to try and pretend it was all done secretly by Morrison is as good a conspiracy as I have heard in some time.
Fail.
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Back to the future, at last some sectors of Government are starting to realise some of the old ways were better, as used to happen there will be a requirement for Australian content on the streaming platforms. Hooray at last.
www.abc.net.au
Streaming giants like Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime will be required to invest in making local Australian content under new rules set to be imposed on the industry.
From mid-2024, the federal government will require the major streaming platforms to put some of their revenue back into Australian content.
History of Australian media.
www.sutori.com
Streaming giants to be required to make Australian films and TV under major rules shake-up
From mid-2024, the federal government will require major streaming platforms — such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime — to put some of their revenue back into Australian content.
www.abc.net.au
Key points:
- Major streaming services will be required to invest revenue into producing local content from mid-2024
- The film and TV sector has previously argued for 20 per cent of revenue to be put into local productions
- While streaming services already produce Australian content, the Arts Minister says it should be a requirement
From mid-2024, the federal government will require the major streaming platforms to put some of their revenue back into Australian content.
History of Australian media.
Sutori
Presentations for the classroom in a unique timeline format. On Sutori, teachers and students create a variety of projects, assignments and portfolios. Perfect for the flipped classroom and collaborative work, Sutori's student-first approach brings the best out of your curriculum and lesson plans.
www.sutori.com
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I was introduced to this news media site by a friend. It might be of interest to other posters on ASF.
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.
By The Free Press
December 9, 2022
Each one of us has a tiny computer in our pocket with, basically, the sum total of human knowledge. We have never had access to more information, or more ways to share it.
At the same time, it seems we understand our world less and less.
As the gap between what we’re allowed to say in public and how we talk in private grows, so does our distrust—in power, in the press, and in one another.
Maybe your moment came while reading about school lockdowns. Or maybe it was the obvious political bias distorting even the most basic news stories. Maybe you’ve seen reporters being activists on social media, then feigning objectivity in their stories.
But at some point, you might have noticed that what you were reading didn’t reflect what you were seeing with your own eyes.
At some point, maybe you noticed that the people paid to tell you about the world as it is were instead telling you about the world as they wished it to be.
At some point, maybe you noticed that rather than conveying complexity—even if it was inconvenient or uncomfortable—the press was in the business of giving their readers, their viewers, and their listeners confirmation. Confirmation that they were right, confirmation that their political opponents were wrong.
We saw it happen from the inside.
We saw it in our newsrooms and in our pitch meetings. “All the news that’s fit to print” was becoming “all the news that fits the narrative.” Curiosity was becoming a liability—not a necessity.
So we left.
What we didn’t know was how many of us there were, or how much demand there would be for honest stories. We didn’t realize there are millions of people who want to discuss hard things out loud, who want to seek the truth rather than the comfort of a political team or tribe—people who want journalism they can trust, and who are eager for their own perspectives to be challenged.
www.thefp.com
Welcome to The Free Press
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.
By The Free Press
December 9, 2022
Each one of us has a tiny computer in our pocket with, basically, the sum total of human knowledge. We have never had access to more information, or more ways to share it.
At the same time, it seems we understand our world less and less.
As the gap between what we’re allowed to say in public and how we talk in private grows, so does our distrust—in power, in the press, and in one another.
Maybe your moment came while reading about school lockdowns. Or maybe it was the obvious political bias distorting even the most basic news stories. Maybe you’ve seen reporters being activists on social media, then feigning objectivity in their stories.
But at some point, you might have noticed that what you were reading didn’t reflect what you were seeing with your own eyes.
At some point, maybe you noticed that the people paid to tell you about the world as it is were instead telling you about the world as they wished it to be.
At some point, maybe you noticed that rather than conveying complexity—even if it was inconvenient or uncomfortable—the press was in the business of giving their readers, their viewers, and their listeners confirmation. Confirmation that they were right, confirmation that their political opponents were wrong.
We saw it happen from the inside.
We saw it in our newsrooms and in our pitch meetings. “All the news that’s fit to print” was becoming “all the news that fits the narrative.” Curiosity was becoming a liability—not a necessity.
So we left.
What we didn’t know was how many of us there were, or how much demand there would be for honest stories. We didn’t realize there are millions of people who want to discuss hard things out loud, who want to seek the truth rather than the comfort of a political team or tribe—people who want journalism they can trust, and who are eager for their own perspectives to be challenged.
Welcome to The Free Press
A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.
www.thefp.com
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I told you it wasn't just me, that thinks the media are drongos. ? ? ? ?
www.stuff.co.nz
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown texted his friends that he couldn’t play tennis over the weekend because he had to “deal with media drongos over the flooding”, it’s been reported.
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown texted his friends that he couldn’t play tennis over the weekend because he had to “deal with media drongos over the flooding”, it’s been reported.
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I told you it wasn't just me, that thinks the media are drongos. ? ? ? ?
Stuff
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown texted his friends that he couldn’t play tennis over the weekend because he had to “deal with media drongos over the flooding”, it’s been reported.
I wonder when his term expires and if he will get another one.
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I just read an interesting snippet, in a small article, I wonder where the headlines are? Where the outrage is?
Silence is golden, the narrative has moved on, to other more pressing social issue. ?
The media, I don't know who is worse, the media for roping dopes, or the dopes for being roped.
A federal review of health data over recent months identified a previously unreported 232 deaths in 2022, but the federal government is declining to specify the months in which they occurred.
The change in reporting was made on the eve of the release of figures that would have revealed more deaths had occurred in aged care in the eight months under Labor than during the first two years of the pandemic under the previous government.
The new data brings the total number of deaths in 2022 to 3807, compared with just 912 in 2020 and 2021 when the issue was dominating headlines and television bulletins every week. In total, including this year, there have been 5067 COVID-related deaths in aged care since the pandemic began.
Silence is golden, the narrative has moved on, to other more pressing social issue. ?
The media, I don't know who is worse, the media for roping dopes, or the dopes for being roped.
A federal review of health data over recent months identified a previously unreported 232 deaths in 2022, but the federal government is declining to specify the months in which they occurred.
The change in reporting was made on the eve of the release of figures that would have revealed more deaths had occurred in aged care in the eight months under Labor than during the first two years of the pandemic under the previous government.
The new data brings the total number of deaths in 2022 to 3807, compared with just 912 in 2020 and 2021 when the issue was dominating headlines and television bulletins every week. In total, including this year, there have been 5067 COVID-related deaths in aged care since the pandemic began.
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Ah, but dont you see @sptrawler , it was because of all the headlines, the lockdowns, the arrests, the business closures etc etc that prevented all those deaths in 2020 and 2021. I can't believe they are not bringing them back in to save all those people.I just read an interesting snippet, in a small article, I wonder where the headlines are? Where the outrage is?
Silence is golden, the narrative has moved on, to other more pressing social issue. ?
The media, I don't know who is worse, the media for roping dopes, or the dopes for being roped.
A federal review of health data over recent months identified a previously unreported 232 deaths in 2022, but the federal government is declining to specify the months in which they occurred.
The change in reporting was made on the eve of the release of figures that would have revealed more deaths had occurred in aged care in the eight months under Labor than during the first two years of the pandemic under the previous government.
The new data brings the total number of deaths in 2022 to 3807, compared with just 912 in 2020 and 2021 when the issue was dominating headlines and television bulletins every week. In total, including this year, there have been 5067 COVID-related deaths in aged care since the pandemic began.
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I just thought it was on the media check list. ?
Remove Trump - Check
Remove Johnson - Check
Remove Morrison - Check
Push climate change target - Check
Push voice to Parliament - proceeding
Push republic - pending. ?
They aren't brining the rules back in, because the media isn't pushing the issue, that's a surprise as it was 24/7 news when Morrison was in office, along with the floods and the bushfires.
All quiet on the Western Front these days, nothing to see here. ?
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The ABC wouldn't air biased reports, would it? What do they call it? "Your ABC".
As if. ?
www.smh.com.au
The ABC has apologised for providing an incomplete picture in a radio report about an Alice Springs community forum held to address alcohol-fuelled violence in the community.
Matt Paterson, the mayor of Alice Springs, demanded on Thursday that ABC chair Ita Buttrose retract stories that appeared on the national broadcaster’s platforms that claimed a community forum at the Alice Springs Convention Centre expressed elements of “white supremacy”
The forum, which took place on Monday, was attended by thousands of residents who were concerned about drunken violence and property crime in the area.
Paterson demanded an apology to the Alice Springs community and told The Australian that the ABC reports had misrepresented what took place.
In a statement on the ABC’s website, the national broadcaster said one report on its radio current affair program AM did not adequately provide listeners with the context of the meeting or a variety of perspectives expressed at it. The ABC said that while the meeting was “accurately reported” and newsworthy, the report had fallen short of some standards.
“ABC News apologises to audiences for providing an incomplete picture of the event in this instance,” the ABC said. “Over the course of the day, the coverage included information and perspectives that provided a balanced understanding of the event, including additional comments from the meeting and further context regarding allegations of racism. ABC News stands by its journalists covering this story.”
The report will remain online with an editor’s note and links to coverage that can provide more context. The editor’s note said the report should have included more perspectives from the meeting. “ABC News management takes responsibility,” the note said. The ABC’s news division is led by Justin Stevens, who was appointed last March.
I love the editors note: the report now actually has both sides of the issue. ?
As if. ?
ABC apologises for Alice Springs report
An ABC report faced fierce criticism from the Alice Springs mayor, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and other radio and television broadcasters.
The ABC has apologised for providing an incomplete picture in a radio report about an Alice Springs community forum held to address alcohol-fuelled violence in the community.
Matt Paterson, the mayor of Alice Springs, demanded on Thursday that ABC chair Ita Buttrose retract stories that appeared on the national broadcaster’s platforms that claimed a community forum at the Alice Springs Convention Centre expressed elements of “white supremacy”
The forum, which took place on Monday, was attended by thousands of residents who were concerned about drunken violence and property crime in the area.
Paterson demanded an apology to the Alice Springs community and told The Australian that the ABC reports had misrepresented what took place.
In a statement on the ABC’s website, the national broadcaster said one report on its radio current affair program AM did not adequately provide listeners with the context of the meeting or a variety of perspectives expressed at it. The ABC said that while the meeting was “accurately reported” and newsworthy, the report had fallen short of some standards.
“ABC News apologises to audiences for providing an incomplete picture of the event in this instance,” the ABC said. “Over the course of the day, the coverage included information and perspectives that provided a balanced understanding of the event, including additional comments from the meeting and further context regarding allegations of racism. ABC News stands by its journalists covering this story.”
The report will remain online with an editor’s note and links to coverage that can provide more context. The editor’s note said the report should have included more perspectives from the meeting. “ABC News management takes responsibility,” the note said. The ABC’s news division is led by Justin Stevens, who was appointed last March.
I love the editors note: the report now actually has both sides of the issue. ?
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The ABC wouldn't air biased reports, would it? What do they call it? "Your ABC".
As if. ?
ABC apologises for Alice Springs report
An ABC report faced fierce criticism from the Alice Springs mayor, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and other radio and television broadcasters.
The ABC has apologised for providing an incomplete picture in a radio report about an Alice Springs community forum held to address alcohol-fuelled violence in the community.
Matt Paterson, the mayor of Alice Springs, demanded on Thursday that ABC chair Ita Buttrose retract stories that appeared on the national broadcaster’s platforms that claimed a community forum at the Alice Springs Convention Centre expressed elements of “white supremacy”
The forum, which took place on Monday, was attended by thousands of residents who were concerned about drunken violence and property crime in the area.
Paterson demanded an apology to the Alice Springs community and told The Australian that the ABC reports had misrepresented what took place.
In a statement on the ABC’s website, the national broadcaster said one report on its radio current affair program AM did not adequately provide listeners with the context of the meeting or a variety of perspectives expressed at it. The ABC said that while the meeting was “accurately reported” and newsworthy, the report had fallen short of some standards.
“ABC News apologises to audiences for providing an incomplete picture of the event in this instance,” the ABC said. “Over the course of the day, the coverage included information and perspectives that provided a balanced understanding of the event, including additional comments from the meeting and further context regarding allegations of racism. ABC News stands by its journalists covering this story.”
The report will remain online with an editor’s note and links to coverage that can provide more context. The editor’s note said the report should have included more perspectives from the meeting. “ABC News management takes responsibility,” the note said. The ABC’s news division is led by Justin Stevens, who was appointed last March.
I love the editors note: the report now actually has both sides of the issue. ?
The new woke ABC was sure to be caught out sometime.
Too busy pushing agendas and airing their own opinions to worry about facts.
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I thought the interview with UTS professor, Nareem Young was far more biased.
She equated the meeting with the scenes from the movie Mississippi Burning.
She said the “elephant in the room” was the “racism” that poured out during the meeting,.
And yet no footage was shown to highlight the racism she says she saw.
She was not in attendance at the meeting, but based her impression on footage of the meeting and people coming out.
The white bloke who runs the Drum, did not pick her up on this, so it all just went to air as fact.
If that is the standard of Journalism at the ABC, it merely reinforces the idea that they approach everything from an extreme leftists position.
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It must be starting to hurt.
www.canberratimes.com.au
A series of Australian Financial Review articles wove a "false narrative" that Papua New Guinea energy minister William Duma acted corruptly in granting a petroleum licence, a court has found.
On Tuesday, Mr Duma was vindicated in his Federal Court suit against the Nine-owned Fairfax being awarded $545,000 over a series of defamatory AFR articles by Angus Grigg and Jemima Whyte in February 2020.
Justice Anna Katzmann found Fairfax's articles about the politician's involvement in a PNG petroleum licence tender in 2010 and 2011 were not written as a "bare, factual report" but were rather were "replete with errors and misrepresentations".
The articles were "spiced with an account of suspicious circumstances" against the politician, the judge said.
"The ordinary reasonable reader is prone to loose thinking and reads between the lines. And that is precisely what the respondents encouraged them to do. This article was awash with innuendo," she wrote.
"The articles told the reader that Mr Duma was up to no good, more particularly that he was corrupt and successfully orchestrated the payment of a bribe. Moreover, they indicated that there was a trove of documents to prove it."
Justice Katzmann found the articles falsely claimed the politician engaged in corruption, took a bribe from an oil company, conspired with a lawyer to use a shell company to pay bribes to himself, and corruptly tried to move a naval base inland.
A further imputation, that Mr Duma defrauded tribal landowners of compensation, was not made out.
"While they may have read the documents, they did not accurately report the contents of many upon which they relied. And they did not always check the facts," the judge wrote.
"They did not take care to distinguish between suspicions, allegations and proven facts. They did not report the substance of Mr Duma's 'side of the story' in relation to all the matters complained of."
No reasonable attempt was made to contact him for comment and the publisher in fact misled him, Justice Katzmann found.
An amount of $500,000 in aggravated damages plus $45,000 in interest was awarded to Mr Duma as vindication and as compensation for damage to his reputation and hurt to feelings.
Nine to pay $545k after defaming PNG minister
A series of Australian Financial Review articles wove a "false narrative" that Papua New Guinea energy minister William...
On Tuesday, Mr Duma was vindicated in his Federal Court suit against the Nine-owned Fairfax being awarded $545,000 over a series of defamatory AFR articles by Angus Grigg and Jemima Whyte in February 2020.
Justice Anna Katzmann found Fairfax's articles about the politician's involvement in a PNG petroleum licence tender in 2010 and 2011 were not written as a "bare, factual report" but were rather were "replete with errors and misrepresentations".
The articles were "spiced with an account of suspicious circumstances" against the politician, the judge said.
"The ordinary reasonable reader is prone to loose thinking and reads between the lines. And that is precisely what the respondents encouraged them to do. This article was awash with innuendo," she wrote.
"The articles told the reader that Mr Duma was up to no good, more particularly that he was corrupt and successfully orchestrated the payment of a bribe. Moreover, they indicated that there was a trove of documents to prove it."
Justice Katzmann found the articles falsely claimed the politician engaged in corruption, took a bribe from an oil company, conspired with a lawyer to use a shell company to pay bribes to himself, and corruptly tried to move a naval base inland.
A further imputation, that Mr Duma defrauded tribal landowners of compensation, was not made out.
"While they may have read the documents, they did not accurately report the contents of many upon which they relied. And they did not always check the facts," the judge wrote.
"They did not take care to distinguish between suspicions, allegations and proven facts. They did not report the substance of Mr Duma's 'side of the story' in relation to all the matters complained of."
No reasonable attempt was made to contact him for comment and the publisher in fact misled him, Justice Katzmann found.
An amount of $500,000 in aggravated damages plus $45,000 in interest was awarded to Mr Duma as vindication and as compensation for damage to his reputation and hurt to feelings.
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It would be a much better interview with professor Nareem, if they conducted the interview during a walk around Alice Springs after dark.
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The media have sniffed out a scent and are after the prey.?
It's also good to see the reserve bank operating independently and free of government interference.
www.smh.com.au
On Wednesday, this masthead reported six Labor MPs had taken the unusual step of questioning Lowe’s performance as governor following the Reserve Bank’s decision to impose a ninth consecutive interest rate rise, with some of those MPs suggesting his seven-year term should not be extended beyond September.
Chalmers was asked three times on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday whether Lowe was doing his job properly, but the Treasurer stopped short of endorsing the independent central bank governor.
There is a growing expectation that Lowe will not have his seven-year term extended to ten years as happened with the previous two governors, Glenn Stevens and Ian Macfarlane.
It's also good to see the reserve bank operating independently and free of government interference.
Chalmers fails to endorse Phil Lowe, says decision on RBA governor’s future to come
As speculation mounts about Phil Lowe’s future as RBA governor, Treasurer Jim Chalmers ducked questions on his performance.
On Wednesday, this masthead reported six Labor MPs had taken the unusual step of questioning Lowe’s performance as governor following the Reserve Bank’s decision to impose a ninth consecutive interest rate rise, with some of those MPs suggesting his seven-year term should not be extended beyond September.
Chalmers was asked three times on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday whether Lowe was doing his job properly, but the Treasurer stopped short of endorsing the independent central bank governor.
There is a growing expectation that Lowe will not have his seven-year term extended to ten years as happened with the previous two governors, Glenn Stevens and Ian Macfarlane.
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Now this is how you handle the media.
www.abc.net.au
German ballet director suspended after dog poo attack on newspaper critic
A German newspaper critic has animal faeces smeared on her face in the city of Hannover by a ballet director who apparently took offence at a review she wrote.
www.abc.net.au
