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Wowee Fake news or what.
 
Twitter using community notes, or users now having to check their source material or be ridiculed. Well it's a lot better than an unelected yank from the esafety commission telling the world what they can view and acting like Australia wants it.

If you support these misinformation laws and support Julian Assange then you are an idiot.
Anyone that would give politicians more control is the type that would keep going down the suppression path.

Blows my mind what these idiots will accept from the government.
 
As a practical observation, misinformation's nothing new even slightly.

It's always been around, all that's changed is who controls it.

Some music from 36 years ago, that's before any mainstream use of the internet and long before it carried any significance as a mass communication tool. Listen carefully to the lyrics and realise how little has changed:


That the mainstream media's in such a flap about social media is for one reason only. They're slowly but surely losing their grip, they're losing the ability to run governments and set the agenda, and they're not going down without a fight.
 
It will be interesting to see how the Govt goes about trying to legally control media content, when it can't even control illegal immigrants legally, hopefully they don't end up with egg on their faces.
 

Nitrous oxide has been linked to paralysis and death. We got it delivered to our door

At first glance, it would be easy to mistake for an Uber Eats delivery. The driver isn't here to drop off food, though — it's a 3.3 litre canister of nitrous oxide.
www.abc.net.au

Devastating. Apparently household bleach can cause death as well if you inject it like Donald Trump said... I just found out I can get that delivered in under 1 hour - This is truly shocking.

Seriously - we need to defund the ABC. This is a pathetic garbage low quality story (it's not journalism) which once again has zero stats or evidence where they quote some random people. Maybe the aboriginal pain sniffing story was getting old? Next week I bet they'll run an article about how kitchen knives can be bought of the internet and used for crime not their intended purpose of cutting fruit.
 
I know the media try and get the info out as quickly as possible but you would think someone would proof read it, especially when the info has been repeated on numerous ocassions. .

Michael Mosley: Body found in search for missing British TV presenter on Greek island of Symi

The body of the popular TV presenter was found on Sunday, near the sea and close to a beach bar, police said.
www.smh.com.au
From the article:
Athens: CCTV footage has revealed that TV doctor Michael Mosley was close to safety as he walked up a rocky mountain on the Greek island of Symi before he stumbled and fell out of view less than 100 metres from a resort.

The body of Mosley, 67, who was a prominent face on British TV for two decades, was found on Sunday morning (Sunday evening AEST), next to a fence on rocky terrain, which was close to the sea and a beach bar.

“We’re taking comfort in the fact that he so very nearly made it,” Mosley’s wife, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, said in a statement to British media.
“He did an incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn’t be easily seen by the extensive search team.

“Michael was an adventurous man, it’s part of what made him so special.”
CCTV footage shows Mosley gingerly walking down a rocky mountain near the perimeter fence of the Agia Marina resort before he appears to stumble and fall out of view, just over two hours after he left his wife and friends, the London Telegraph reported.
 
Gotta admit that was a nice little shirtfront

 
Well our long running observations, regarding the public's perception of mainstream news, appears to be well founded.

More people turning away from news, Reuters Institute report says

News avoidance is now at record high levels, the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report says.
www.bbc.com
From the article:
More people are turning away from news, describing it as depressing, relentless and boring, a global study suggests.

Almost four in 10 (39%) people worldwide said they sometimes or often actively avoid the news, compared with 29% in 2017, according to the report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute.

Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East may have contributed to people's desire to switch off the news, the report's authors said.

It said that news avoidance is now at record high levels.
A total of 94,943 adults across 47 countries were surveyed by YouGov in January and February for this year's Digital News Report.

It comes at a time when billions of people around the world have been going to the polls in national and regional elections.

The report found that elections have increased interest in the news in a few countries, including the United States.

However, the overall trend remains firmly downwards, according to the study.

Around the world, 46% of people said they were very or extremely interested in the news - down from 63% in 2017.

In the UK, interest in news has almost halved since 2015.
Mr Newman said those choosing to selectively avoid the news also often do so because they feel "powerless".

"These are people who feel they have no agency over massive things that are happening in the world," he said.

Some people feel increasingly overwhelmed and confused by the amount of news around, while others feel fatigued by politics, he added.


Public perspectives on trust in news

Almost all news reporting implicitly asks the public to trust it. At a basic level, it asks people to trust that ‘we really did talk to the sources we mention, they really said what we have quoted them on, and the data we cite is reliable’. And in a more expansive sense, ‘our editorial judgement...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
 
If you watch the ABC a lot of it is women complaining about something.

Oops, better watch out.
 
SirRumpole said:
If you watch the ABC a lot of it is women complaining about something.

Oops, better watch out.
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The Reuters article, which is the actual survey, is an interesting read.

The conclusion highlights what we think.

Across the world, our data thus capture two important things. First, most people think in broadly similar terms about what are the most important factors when it comes to deciding which news outlets to trust – transparency, high standards, freedom from bias, and treating people fairly.
These are things many journalists aspire to live up to, and for these journalists, it is encouraging to see that there is such an overlap between how many reporters and much of the public think about what makes news worth trusting.
The challenge for news media when it comes to winning and maintaining trust is to show that they live up to these expectations.
 
sptrawler said:
The Reuters article, which is the actual survey, is an interesting read.
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There is so much news around that is irrelevant to most individuals, especially foreign news.

There are hundreds of news stories on the ABC web site, I read about 3-5 of them per day, the rest just have no relevance or interest to me and are a waste of money employing the journalists that write this stuff.

I'd prefer more knowledgeable analysis of relevant issues rather than a plethora of trivia that the news outlets put out.
 
I'm much the same, I read the headlines, then research the issues I'm interested in.

Usually I find important local issues are given more accurate coverage in overseas media, probably because the reporter has to research it, rather than just give their opinion which they tend to do on local news issues.
 
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