The APC is a self regulating toothless tiger,
As the former managing director and editor in chief of The Age newspaper (and founder of the Australian Press Council), this is a hard piece to write. In my view the mainstream media – journalists and commentators – have failed this country during the debate on the Voice.
Source: Our mainstream media failed this country during the Voice referendum – Pearls and Irritations
It took two ‘effen’ long years for this toothless tiger the APC to come to this conclusion about Murdoch’s methodology. Murdoch Press is singularly the most complained about publisher in Australia whose staff dominates the APC membership. News Corp is more an insider trader in an a really independent press council. The Australian may not have specifically named Milligan but sure as hell handballed her, and allowed Sky After Dark’s Andrew Bolt and others to do that job of running off their mouths and constantly naming her as a fake journalist for the past two years. Bolt knew he was promoting bullshit and it’s why Justice Mordecai Bromberg found him ‘guilty’ of “bad, lazy, deceitful journalism” against a group of 5 Indigenous Australians he claimed weren’t.
The Murdoch broadsheet breached three of the general principles of the regulator when it accused Milligan, a former employee of the newspaper, of “bad, lazy, deceitful journalism” in the 2021 article headlined “Greatest enemy of truth is those who conspire to lie”.
Source: National Times – Editorial in the Australian that targeted ABC’s… | Facebook
Murdoch an American, owns 66% of the print media in this country and is the unofficial PR arm of the LNP government so what can we expect. The APC is after all like the ABC are a watered down version of our critical voice. Morrison’s promised an ICAC if and whenever it comes will be another watered down version of what our voice could be. But let’s be fair the defamation laws will be changed and called “strengthened” and MP’s will be allowed taxpayer money to sue us.
Australia’s media watchdog found more than two-thirds of all complaints upheld for violations of the media code of ethics in 2021 were against News Corp, Alan Austin reports. AUSTRALIANS WILL BE SAFER, healthier, happier and much better informed when Rupert Murdoch’s malevolent media empire eventually disappears.
Source: News Corp’s shoddy ‘journalism’ again dominates Press Council complaints
Only 8% of what Fox broadcasts has been found to be true. is that ‘Fair and Balanced’
Protester Confronts Fox Affiliate That Deceptively Edited ‘Kill A Cop’ Chant.
This government’s greatest donor if media support is taken into account is News Corp. This is typical of the support of policy that this media corp provides the LNP. Kevin Andrews welcomes headlines of this nature. In fact Andrew Bolt and other conservative commentators would welcome an even closer relationship, a true propaganda arm of the Abbott government.
APC rules against News Corp over ‘Slackers & Slouch Hats’ article.
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