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

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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.
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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...
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Probably because of the amount of lies being told or the narratives being painted.
The media destroyed itself on Trump.
 
A lovely smackdown of some truly inane (and typical) questions from the left wing media. Bewdiful.


 
wayneL said:
A lovely smackdown of some truly inane (and typical) questions from the left wing media. Bewdiful.


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Notice what’s left of the so call journalists of the so called mainstream media have been very silent on Tuckers Australian tour
 
wayneL said:
A lovely smackdown of some truly inane (and typical) questions from the left wing media. Bewdiful.


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I have never heard him before, incredible, that reporter was torn to shreds.
She just tried what she gets away with here in Australia, with someone who hasn't been trained to do as they are told, when answering the media.
I wish our politicians and leaders would do the same, but they just wouldn't be allowed to, they would be crucified by the media pack, their political careers would be over.
The guy was spot on, the reporter using innuendo and misrepresentations to drive the narrative.

loved how he didn't let her talk over him, another Australian media trick, they can be rude and talk over and interject, but the guest can't do the same.
The reporter must be shown respect, yet the reporter doesn't have show any respect in return and they wonder why no one listens to them.
Well some do, the ones who have the same arrogant, self opinionated attitude as the reporters. 🤪
 
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wayneL said:
A lovely smackdown of some truly inane (and typical) questions from the left wing media. Bewdiful.


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I just googled him and notice the loonies don't like him, obviously he doesn't do as he is told, or sing from the left song list. :roflmao:

www.theage.com.au

The Tuck gives our senator in Canberra goosebumps

Senator Ralph Babet was thrilled to be centre stage in the presence of US pundit Tucker Carlson.
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For a group of parliamentarians affectionately known as the “Facebook uncle caucus” – owing to their stentorian views on vaccines, gender pronouns, nu-cu-lar power and those dang pesky Greens – Tuesday seemed like a visit from the king.

The royalty in question was Tucker Carlson, the former Trumpian star of Fox News (before he defected to, um, streaming content on social media platform X). The Tuck had stopped off in Canberra in the midst of his Australian tour bankrolled by billionaire mining magnate and part-time political agitator Clive Palmer.

Thus far, Carlson’s “Freedom Tour” has been a bit of a flop. With Palmer and friends struggling to get bums on seats, some tickets were slashed to as cheap as $50. And big Clive himself was stricken with laryngitis and unable to join in the fun at Monday’s event in Perth.

The United Australia Party moneybags was again too ill to attend Carlson’s sold-out lunchtime event at Canberra’s Hyatt Hotel, a stone’s throw from Parliament House. Instead, his $110 million Victorian senator Ralph Babet had the honour of introducing Carlson.

We’re not sure how the Californian-born Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (’tis his full name) fits that vision, but the big guy was such a hot ticket for his local political fans that a few even skipped question time to show up (gentlemen – priorities!), among them former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce; Coalition senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic; and One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts.

Babet later brought the pundit into the corridors of power for a meet and greet in Parliament House. And while Carlson’s schtick of dabbling in conspiracy theories and giving an on-air boot-licking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin probably isn’t the biggest drawcard in a relatively sensible country like Australia, Babet was thrilled to be in the great man’s presence.

“Every speech he gives gives me chills and goosebumps,” he said. Senator, we respectfully feel you need to get out more.
 
"Days after a white gunman shot 13 people, killing 10, at a grocery store in a majority-Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a segment about the “great replacement theory.” “We’re still not sure exactly what it is,” Carlson claimed about the racist, white-supremacist conspiracy theory that the population of white Americans is being systematically and intentionally “replaced” by nonwhite immigrants and their children, something the suspected shooter espoused prior to the attack. Yet elements of the theory have been echoed by mainstream figures on the right, including Carlson, as well as GOP members of Congress like Reps. Matt Gaetz and Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House."

fivethirtyeight.com

The Twisted Logic Behind The Right’s ‘Great Replacement’ Arguments

Days after a white gunman shot 13 people, killing 10, at a grocery store in a majority-Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, Fox News host Tucker Carlson air…
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Wow, he obviously isn't liked, but he did handle the reporter well, she should have had facts at hand to support her allegations.

I've seen reporters in Australia interviewing scientists and interjecting, speaking over them because they aren't saying what the reporter is trying to convey, the expert usually either cuts short the interview or changes tack, because they know that their career and private life will be destroyed if they don't conform.

That is the main reason the wife wont watch any current affairs, news etc, she just gets angry as hell when she sees reporters giving misleading or incorrect opinions and dressing it up as facts, especially if it is of a medical nature. ;)
 
LoL OMG... PERCEPTIONS AND DECEPTIONS.

With regards to the reportage, the right love him, the left hate him, that's all you need to know. Believe what you want to believe accordingly. :laugh:
 
sptrawler said:
Wow, he obviously isn't liked, but he did handle the reporter well, she should have had facts at hand to support her allegations.

I've seen reporters in Australia interviewing scientists and interjecting, speaking over them because they aren't saying what the reporter is trying to convey, the expert usually either cuts short the interview or changes tack, because they know that their career and private life will be destroyed if they don't conform.

That is the main reason the wife wont watch any current affairs, news etc, she just gets angry as hell when she sees reporters giving misleading or incorrect opinions and dressing it up as facts, especially if it is of a medical nature. ;)
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Agree could have had a better grip on the background, note I posted a cross section of media saying the same thing could have posted 20 or more confirming his blatant lying in his answer during which he raised his voice to assert dominance.

What's disarming about Carlson is his caring dad voice persona when perpetuating really nasty stuff.
 
IFocus said:
Agree could have had a better grip on the background, note I posted a cross section of media saying the same thing could have posted 20 or more confirming his blatant lying in his answer during which he raised his voice to assert dominance.

What's disarming about Carlson is his caring dad voice persona when perpetuating really nasty stuff.
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That is the only time I've ever seen or heard of him, so I don't know and really can't comment, Australian politics is bad enough without getting caught up in the U.S.
Jeez they talk about college votes and pre voting votes, it all sounds worse than trying to work out the AFL finals equation, which I don't bother with either. I used to love the AFL, now I never watch it. :(
 
IFocus said:

Tucker Carlson embraces white-supremacist 'replacement' conspiracy theory, claiming Democrats are 'importing' immigrants to 'dilute' American voters​


www.businessinsider.com

Tucker Carlson embraces white-supremacist 'replacement' conspiracy theory, claiming Democrats are 'importing' immigrants to 'dilute' American voters

"I have less political power because they're importing a brand new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that?" the Fox News host said.
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Where did he say it?
"Diluting the voters" is exactly what is happening. That's the truth not "white supremacy".

Media is just making up headlines and then writing the story round the farce they created.
 
moXJO said:
Where did he say it?
"Diluting the voters" is exactly what is happening. That's the truth not "white supremacy".

Media is just making up headlines and then writing the story round the farce they created.
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Mo Google it

I counted 60 headlines on the 1st page, I know its just all media hype.
 
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moXJO said:
"White replacement" or "Great replacement"?
They are two different things.
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This IMO becomes a huge problem, when you smudge what your border means, you dilute what being part of the community means.

On a macro base at our recent AGM, we had to actually pass a bi law in our strata complex, to not allow short term rentals eg AbnB, it will actually cost us money to register that with landgate.

So are we being discriminatory, are we excluding people who have every right to come into our small complex, or are we just trying to apply reasonable conditions to protect our lifestyle?
By the way, this complex isnt anything special, they were $200k a year ago lol.
 

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