Scandal News Ltd and Gold Coast Suns - bit of dodginess going on.

[Atomboy]

Colour me shocked that journalists and media houses run PR from 3rd parties as news articles !!!!!.

Proper journalism died a long time ago in this country.

 

[dmc333]

Common practice.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Not much different to the essendon PR over the last 15 years

 

[matthew_s]

Not much different to the essendon PR over the last 15 years

The meth diaries on 360...

 

[Split pea]

So the summary version; the News Ltd daily paper 'Gold Coast Bulletin' has been running stories 100% written and supplied by the Gold Coast Suns media team.

Essentially there's so little care for the Gold Coast suns in the community the only way they can get stories written about them is to supply the stories themselves? And News Ltd is somehow okay with this? Is the AFL okay with it? It's pretty terrible "journalism"/ethics.

Here's a twitter thread about it (screenshotted in case they get deleted)

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"News Ltd" hasn't been News Corp's name for years now

 

[AFLQLD]

The only scandal here is that anyone at all thinks journalistic standards and News Corp are in any way related. This particular dodginess is actually on the higher side of their ‘standards’. They sink much, much, much lower than this.

 

[Big Bryza]

You don't even need a journalism or writing degree to be an AFL "reporter" for a news rag or fluff TV

Tony Jones and Tom Browne for example.

This means we could all have a crack and get a gig.

Elaborate further...

Neither of these 2 bozos are qualified journos??

 

[brutus76]

Caroline Wilson and Mike Sheahan = journalist
Sam McLure Bachelor of Media and Communications = journalist

Tony Jones was a radio person before he got onto TV but has no journalistic qualifications
Tom Browne has Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degree but nothing in communications, media or journalism = this is why he has no idea, speaks and writes poorly

 

[DERO]

The only scandal here is that anyone at all thinks journalistic standards and News Corp are in any way related. This particular dodginess is actually on the higher side of their ‘standards’. They sink much, much, much lower than this.

One only has to go back to the political point scoring during covid... All about agendas and clicks.

 

[justlookingaround]

If you've ever watched anything, or, consumed any sort of news media for the past decade or so, you'd know at least a quarter of content is ads disguised as news

 

[StCicatriz]

So the summary version; the News Ltd daily paper 'Gold Coast Bulletin' has been running stories 100% written and supplied by the Gold Coast Suns media team.

Essentially there's so little care for the Gold Coast suns in the community the only way they can get stories written about them is to supply the stories themselves? And News Ltd is somehow okay with this? Is the AFL okay with it? It's pretty terrible "journalism"/ethics.

Here's a twitter thread about it (screenshotted in case they get deleted)

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How is this news?

 

[WestCoast05]

We have/had state presidents and board members commentating their own teams - this 'scandal' is nothing.
Our national footy media basically bring their own pom-poms along with them.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

The only scandal here is that anyone at all thinks journalistic standards and News Corp are in any way related. This particular dodginess is actually on the higher side of their ‘standards’. They sink much, much, much lower than this.

There's no journalistic integrity in Australian media, regardless of organisation