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Sadly the ABC (Aus) page is no better - there was a time Just In had currency, no more.
Journalism is dying
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Sadly the ABC (Aus) page is no better - there was a time Just In had currency, no more.
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Why would you be looking for criticism ? Its about money 100% & the people who feel entitled to see it for nothing.
Surprised you cant find anything that supports entitlement.
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The free West was my lifeline to whats happening back home, living in Melbourne WA issues dont get much coverage here.
Should I pay?
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Not when BigFooty has a free Perth thread.
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I'll pay ..
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I like Crikey, the guardian and Michael West
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The umpires are always right!
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It's not about entitlement, certain sports events in Australia, including limited overs internationals are on the anti-siphoning list which means they are supposed to be shown on FTA channels. Cricket Australia found a way around that though by selling the rights to Ch7 who had an agreement to on-sell those rights to Foxtel, both Ch10 and Ch9 were prepared to show the limited overs internationals if they won the rights but they didn't offer as much money as Ch7 and Foxtel.
Cricket Australia got greedy for a bigger tv rights deal while sacrificing the growth of the game, you only have to look at how much cricket has declined in popularity in the UK since it went to pay tv to see how foolish that decision is but there have been very few media articles that are critical of it.
This is one of the few I can find.
Cricket Australia’s TV deal failed the public and brought the game into disrepute
Last week’s Australia-South Africa series marked the debut of Foxtel’s exclusive coverage of One Day International cricket and the latter’s disappearance, along with T20…
www.theroar.com.au
Michael West is a star. True Crime Australia is not bad, can do some whacky s**t, but also good stuff.
Still amazing they broke the Barnaby Joyce love child story, and those cretins at News Corp accepted a Walkley for it.
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The anti-siphoning list seems like a waste of time as written.
So all ODIs in Australia should be on FTA TV, but then shouldn't all 207 games of the AFL season be also? That hasn't been the case since 2001.
Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2010
www.legislation.gov.au
So all ODIs in Australia should be on FTA TV, but then shouldn't all 207 games of the AFL season be also? That hasn't been the case since 2001.
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Yep I don’t mind true crime and you are right, he is a little whacked
He did call out Sharri Markson but it fell on deaf ears unfortunately
Had to wait til they had permission from the government
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ABC is better but a lot of s**t has worked it's way in.
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So what jpournalistic standards do you like there OR do they report in a way that supports your view of the world?
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Better, how?
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Michael West, not across his work, a journo? I'll give it a run.
Michael West Media - investigative journalists - always independent
Michael West Media - always independent. Dedicated to the public interest and investigations into big business and government abuse of power .
www.michaelwest.com.au
When you look at the current Ads promoting the ABC as the story breakers that led to big Inquiries you have to praise them.
Meanwhile on ACA...
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The timing wasnt bad, nor coincidental.
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Bit of both I suppose,
Quite thorough in their preparation and able to print full stories through being independent so you get the big picture and probably because they are stories you don’t necessarily see in MSM.
The Guardian has picked up quite a few quality journalists that found they could no longer work for their current bosses so it’s been great being able to read their own POV
This electronic photocopying has been this way for years. Every now and again a news story used to pop up about some interesting new invention or some new construction project, the story in the newspaper or on TV being a bit light on I'd go see if the company had a website to look up further information. There on the company website was usually an article written by the PR department, which the news had lifted and copied word for word, with the same vagueness and scant detail. Lack of detail in reporting shits me. The journalists don't seem to have the time or the resources to speak to the people involved and ask further questions - they just print the press release. What other people want you to hear.
The other thing that shits me is news articles with Twitter quotes.
Further to that, they don't question anything. They just print claims. If there is a controversy they just print both claims without actually asking either side any questions. So we get stupidity and lies reported as "one side of the story". If someone is full of s**t and telling lies a common sense journalist ought to be calling them out on it and not letting them get away with bullshit. This goes for politicians, corporations, unions, protest groups and activists. People should get called out for spouting demonstrable bullshit.
The other thing that shits me is news articles with Twitter quotes.
Further to that, they don't question anything. They just print claims. If there is a controversy they just print both claims without actually asking either side any questions. So we get stupidity and lies reported as "one side of the story". If someone is full of s**t and telling lies a common sense journalist ought to be calling them out on it and not letting them get away with bullshit. This goes for politicians, corporations, unions, protest groups and activists. People should get called out for spouting demonstrable bullshit.
The line between news, editorial and opinion has been blurred probably since cuneiform was first put to tablet, but in the claick-bait insta-news world any distinction that existed has basically been removed.
And investigative journalism doesn't really exist any more in the commercial world. It is expensive with no gusrantee of a payoff. And even if you do get the story it will be trumped within minutes of a) somebody lifting it and claiming it as their own, or b) a celebrity's latest butt-lift. Which is sad, because the one thing traditional media has that online start-ups and social media "influencers" don't is the resources and knowledge of producing long-form journalism.
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The masses don't want anything that makes them truly think about their own opinions.
They can tolerate polemic, so long as it revolves around simple binaries e.g. good vs bad, us vs them, left vs right, etc.
But they cannot tolerate anything that truly challenges their preconceived notions.
Moreover, they want hundreds of micro-hits of the good feelings you get when you click on exciting stories.
Sex, drugs, scandal, celebrity caught in sex and drugs scandal, they love it.
Just the way it is.
With the dumbing down of the education system, it will only get worse.
And if you honestly do not believe the education system is being dumbed down, then it worked on you very well.
They can tolerate polemic, so long as it revolves around simple binaries e.g. good vs bad, us vs them, left vs right, etc.
But they cannot tolerate anything that truly challenges their preconceived notions.
Moreover, they want hundreds of micro-hits of the good feelings you get when you click on exciting stories.
Sex, drugs, scandal, celebrity caught in sex and drugs scandal, they love it.
Just the way it is.
With the dumbing down of the education system, it will only get worse.
And if you honestly do not believe the education system is being dumbed down, then it worked on you very well.
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