Corporate Consolidation of Media failed Australia’s ability to distinguish facts from fiction, news from propaganda, and justified it as Free Speech and called Opinion all in the interests of Democracy. What a scam it was. We have stricter advertising laws. We put Peter Foster in jail for less than what we saw the LNP do to the Referendum. Corporate Media isn’t even a Citizen it is a system that has no loyalties other than to its shareholders and that part of the market that will guarantee a profitable outcome and that’s the money end of town. That’s neither the public nor the common good. The % of the public is what the media sells, ratings not news, and says anything for attention. It’s a Quid pro Quo arrangement with wealth power and interests. The referendum was about who and who wasn’t deserving of Charity and who best controlled the money. Should money go directly to FN people to close the gap or be filtered through third-party administrators as it was during a decade of LNP government?

Warren Mundine and News Corp we know shared $325,000. Planners, advertisers, and administrators of the Cash Card certainly heard the sound of Kaching. As did all those other contractors doffed with the gifts from the $4.5 B purse. Little of which if any was seen in remote communities so kept that gap widening. Little has changed since the 19th century other than the deck chairs on the ship that First Nation’s peoples have found themselves.

The mainstream media’s performance during the Voice Referendum campaign was an abject failure, writes former CEO and editor-in-chief of The Age, Ranald MacDonald.

Source: How the media failed Australia in the Referendum ‘campaign’