Agreed, but it's the most balanced we have.
Are they out in the street chanting and smashing shop windows?
Lol, The Australian balanced? I've heard it all now. They may as well be a marketing arm of the LNP
I didn't say it was balanced, but it finds room for praise and criticism across the political spectrum. That's more than you could say about the Guardian or the Sydney Morning Herald.
They're also having a massive sook about Rudd's petition for a royal commission themselves. They totally didn't hire a "security expert" to put fake names into the petition, then upon hearing of these fake names purely through mayhap they've pushed the line that the perfidious Rudd must be investigated for this and by no means should anyone anywhere consider looking into the stranglehold News has on politics in this country.
Very clever - I’m glad we’re revisiting these
Perfidious...dafuq????? [emoji1787]
I don't put any of the Australian media on a pedestal. If you're interested in analyzing media bias, Ground News does a good job of revealing "blind spots" though it's US-centric.
How exactly would weakening or even disbanding the organisation that has a monopoly on around 70% of the nations newspapers not create more media players and competition?
Exactly. People seem to genuinely not understand how scary it is that Boomers, who grew up in an era where Newspapers and mainstream media were considered largely more trustworthy and even infallible than they are today, are in charge of the country and the world at large and still have largely not waivered in their trust of these traditional news sources.
Newspapers are a business, not a service. They rely on creating drama and keeping you hooked. The online model, which has almost completely supplanted paper, has instant metrics so operators can tune their headlines and narratives to maximise profit. If you don't do that you go bust.
