OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Twizzle]

 

[hineyrulz]

20m is couch change for those merkins. Hardly worth bothering about.

 

[strider]

People complain about Fox. Yes they are shit ... CNN, NBC, etc are just as bad ... all bought and corrupt as shit. BBC is the same.

Australian media seems no different. They only tell you what they want you to know. Just not sure how they are bought other than the obvious ownership of some of them.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

20m is couch change for those merkins. Hardly worth bothering about.

The cost of doing business

 

[Poupou Escobar]

BBC is the same.

You're talking about the media organisation, right?

 

[Gary Gutful]

People complain about Fox. Yes they are shit ... CNN, NBC, etc are just as bad ... all bought and corrupt as shit. BBC is the same.

Australian media seems no different. They only tell you what they want you to know. Just not sure how they are bought other than the obvious ownership of some of them.

I agree - media is shit and can’t be trusted. I’m just not convinced that Alex Jones and the like are any better.

I don’t take any of it as gospel.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It is entertainment, and intended to influence at least as much as to inform.

I’m starting to think it was ever thus.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Apologies about ‘ever thus’. I’ve been trading old fashioned insults with the wife, so I’m in that mindset.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Apologies about ‘ever thus’. I’ve been trading old fashioned insults with the wife, so I’m in that mindset.

You are just a chicken-hearted blunderbuss. All hat and no cattle.

 

[Eelogical]

You are just a chicken-hearted blunderbuss. All hat and no cattle.

Chickens have a heart, mate. Would you cross a road without knowing the rules?

 

[strider]

You're talking about the media organisation, right?

no

 

[Twizzle]

People complain about Fox. Yes they are shit ... CNN, NBC, etc are just as bad ... all bought and corrupt as shit. BBC is the same.

Australian media seems no different. They only tell you what they want you to know. Just not sure how they are bought other than the obvious ownership of some of them.

 

[strider]

people are delusional if they think Rupert is the only problem .... fox probably aren't even the worst of the liars these days

 

[Gary Gutful]

people are delusional if they think Rupert is the only problem .... fox probably aren't even the worst of the liars these days

Agreed. Fox bashing is bullshit.

They were the first to treat it as entertainment and in the process stumbled on a winning formula. The rest are reluctantly catching up but still suffer from an identity crisis and pretend at times to be 'partial'.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Agreed. Fox bashing is bullshit.

They were the first to treat it as entertainment and in the process stumbled on a winning formula. The rest are reluctantly catching up but still suffer from an identity crisis and pretend at times to be 'partial'.

Yep, remember the death knell of the mainstream media? Then they figured out why Fox is so successful. My mate is a massive lefty and he complains that his socialist mother laps up every progressive conspiracy theory pushed by the ABC and American lefty outlets. Boomers gonna boom, and plenty of them vote Labor/Democrats.

 

[the phantom menace]

My mate is a massive lefty and he complains that his socialist mother laps up every progressive conspiracy theory pushed by the ABC and American lefty outlets.

Are you really sure he's a massive lefty? Or did you mean his has a massive "lefty"...

 

[hineyrulz]

Are you really sure he's a massive lefty? Or did you mean his has a massive "lefty"...

Well we know it’s not @strider because he lost lefty a long time ago.

 

[Gronk]

I agree - media is shit and can’t be trusted. I’m just not convinced that Alex Jones and the like are any better.

I don’t take any of it as gospel.

Media ownership is up to 85% in some sectors with Murdoch, Nine and Stokes. The previous gov diluted media ownership rules significantly. No surprise really.

Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy - report - Michael West

Australia's media monopoly corrodes democracy. The antidote is a thriving public broadcaster, but Coalition is cutting $1bn from the ABC.

michaelwest.com.au

On June 18, the Australian Instagram page posted the meme. It reads: “In Germany, if a newspaper cannot GUARANTEE 75% of its articles are factual then it is not allowed to call itself a newspaper,It is, officially, a magazine and HAS to refer to itself as such.Oh just imagine that rule in Australia.”

Alas, that’s an urban myth. Shame though.

Claim German papers must be 75 per cent factual is 100 per cent wrong

Media bosses must prove the majority of their content is accurate or face being classed as a magazine, according to a meme.

www.aap.com.au

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Are you really sure he's a massive lefty? Or did you mean his has a massive "lefty"...

He’s obviously not as much of a lefty as his mother.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Media ownership is up to 85% in some sectors with Murdoch, Nine and Stokes. The previous gov diluted media ownership rules significantly. No surprise really.

Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy - report - Michael West

Australia's media monopoly corrodes democracy. The antidote is a thriving public broadcaster, but Coalition is cutting $1bn from the ABC.

michaelwest.com.au

On June 18, the Australian Instagram page posted the meme. It reads: “In Germany, if a newspaper cannot GUARANTEE 75% of its articles are factual then it is not allowed to call itself a newspaper,It is, officially, a magazine and HAS to refer to itself as such.Oh just imagine that rule in Australia.”

Alas, that’s an urban myth. Shame though.

Claim German papers must be 75 per cent factual is 100 per cent wrong

Media bosses must prove the majority of their content is accurate or face being classed as a magazine, according to a meme.

www.aap.com.au

92% of fact checkers are lefties.