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by dilutedh2o 1944 days ago
Convenient for you to call it propaganda when it doesn't divulge the narrative you want to hear.

Anyone can make your argument, regardless of political stance.

What you end up with is the most convincing and popular narrative becoming the only lawful story that can be told.

No thanks.
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ostenning 1944 days ago
Narrative aside, Newscorp owns 100% of print media in Queensland and 70% Australia wide. Murdoch’s empire engages in anticompetitive practices destroying competition in Australia.

Newscorp’s power corrupts the political landscape as well, ousting multiple Australian Prime Ministers (Labor and Liberal), as recently heard by PM Kevin Rudd at the Enquiry Into Media Diversity. https://youtu.be/Ap_LuSQ5NSc?t=953 Newscorp has created an atmosphere of fear in the political landscape and those who do not obey, are dismembered slowly but surely.

In my opinion, it’s an absolute crisis with media in Australia lulling people into uneducated and misinformed opinions, often pandering to fear whilst often exploiting minorities for headlines.

We need to act now to fix it.

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dilutedh2o 1944 days ago
I'm all for exposing and thwarting anti competitive practices but I want to see this happen on both sides of the spectrum.
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hedora 1944 days ago
That is exactly what I called for. The US media ownership rules were designed to create a level playing field, and news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum currently fall afoul of the old standards.
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hellisothers 1944 days ago
What spectrum are you referring to?
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hedora 1944 days ago
At least in the US, Fox News says their programming is entertainment, not news, and isn’t meant to be factual.

They have to say that to bypass a bunch of legal standards, since they regularly run stories that are demonstrably false.

For instance, they blamed the Texas outages on wind turbines, when the energy shortfall was greater than the total wind production. During the Portland protests, they were caught photoshopping up photos of rioting that never happened. There are many, many more examples, to the point where when they lie, it’s not really newsworthy.

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