Local Localist wrote:I find that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation definitely delivers the most accurate information - sure, there's a certain political slant to some things, but at the end of the day, that's the case with everything, and at least, as the government news agency, it has close connections to various sources of information which the Murdoch media doesn't necessarily have. In terms of statistics and whatnot, I find the Lowy Institute an interesting think tank. With regard to other matters, I tend to just use international news sources.
I used to quite enjoy the ABC as it seemed less sensationalist but now I only subscribe to it on youtube to see what sort of media cycle is occurring in Australia.
It's become too compromised for my liking though, because Liberal party holds their funding and keeps cutting it I find the journalists rather soft on them to the point of outright ignoring relevant newsworthy points against them and asking weak ass questions of liberal politicians.
I tend towards a labour party voter myself though too young to have participated in many elections and think they can be dodgy in a similar way to the liberal party, but find that they don't get much air time for their policy positions and that ABC seems often to be filled with Murdoch press associated media and liberal party affiliated peeps with their shitty opinions.
And then there is a tendency for the classical green party criticism which sometimes can be too purist for my liking when I've see the Green party vote in coordination with the liberal party against labor.
I get the impression the greens are a continuation of Gough Whitlam's criticism that the pure are impotent, they're not keen to take power but rather maintain a moral high ground based on ideological purity.
But perhaps I'm just too smitten with labor propaganda, but the weakness of the ABC as of late has been part of the reason I'm looking at what other media sources there may be.
There's good journalists out there but they're beholden to their financial dependency to an extreme.
Australian media is bloody ridiculous and it's terribly sad.
ABC is little different than a lot of the other media outlets in following the same news stories, reporting them in much the same way which is overly controlled by the PR arm of Scotty from marketing who are several people who get the "scoop" from the government ie told what to say and then feed it into the media news cycle.
The latest example being Frydenberg and job keeper, they announced it almost as if a press release directly from the government and only later independent investigation noticed the unaccounted @60 billion.
Of course it finally got noticed, but it shows the weak state that it came out only later and how much media is tied to doing what ever the government says is the case.
Which of course is part of their dependence on being allowed to get information but at the same time at what cost? To simply be a tool to push their PR?
Rant over XD
I'll check out the Lowy Institute
https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/For%20Ethical%20Politics.pdf#page90
-For Ethical Politics