[stephen_g]

It's actually getting worse and worse. The Age and the Herald, having been sold to Nine are much lower quality than they once were. The Government is putting more and more pressure on the ABC, with constant (effective) funding cuts, and both direct editorial interference or indirect (i.e. threatening more funding cuts because of journalists publishing articles they don't like). With the ABC, this has been going on for years - in 2013, they withheld a detailed analysis of the flaws of the Liberal's NBN plan (which has been proven accurate) by Nick Ross before the election because of pushback from "the Turnbull camp", and then eventually he was made redundant because of pressure from the Government. Last year, emails were leaked of the chairman saying they needed to "get rid of Emma Alberici and Andrew Probyn because the Government hates them and they put our funding at risk" - for Alberici because she wrote some articles that got a lot of traction while the Government was trying to push big company tax cuts, pointing out that tax cuts haven't historically correlated with increased economic growth or employment growth (this is true). Last month, Emma Alberici was made redundant...

[ludston]

That's not even mentioning that the chairman of 9News is former treasurer of the conservative party which Murdoch is backing.

[Wolfenstein98k]

Alberici was caught making egregious errors and was heavily biased. She couldn't even tell that MYOB is a software company, instead calling them an insurance company IIRC.

Her claims that all corporate losses are profit-shifting was similarly egregious.

She deserved to lose her position, she was campaigning for one side and lying to do so.

I don't say this lightly - go look at the investigation into her piece and why it was taken down.