AUSTRALIA’S MAINSTREAM MEDIA, conservative political parties, right-wing think tanks and sundry corporate commentators would have citizens believe they are in a severe cost-of-living crisis.
Source: Mainstream media warps reality to blame Labor for ‘cost-of-living crisis’
Our mainstream media is acting like state propaganda for an authoritarian regime when it comes to Israel and Gaza. Here are six of the worst examples.
Source: On Gaza, the Media Constantly Parrots the US Government Line
Remember when the ALP saved us from the GFC and Wayne Swan was voted globally “the world’s best treasurer”. Tony Abbott and the Murdoch media were screaming “recession” and that the sky was falling in. Remember their first budget and what happened to ” wanna be PM” Joe Hockey, all those broken promises and their ‘fix’. The rich got richer and the poor poorer, and now we have the working poor. People with jobs need their wages supplemented with welfare while more luxury vehicles than ever are seen on our roads. The wealth and income gaps are expanding, while the middle classes and the hopes of Australia’s children shrinking. Small business has vacated our shopping strips and malls and it didn’t happen because the ALP are now in government Mr Dutton
ABS Data reflects yesterday’s efforts, not today’s, and aint that the truth
Estimated GDP data released by the Bureau of Statistics has resulted in the mainstream media pouncing on warnings of a ‘per capita recession’, writes Dr Abul Rizvi.
When News Corp sponsors a conference for the Arms Industry and Dutton is a featured guest speaker how can we expect our mainstream media to “focus on peace”? Did anyone see this reported in the mainstream?
The fact that Australia is sleepwalking towards a catastrophic war against China has received very welcome and responsible coverage in Pearls and Irritations and other non-mainstream media. The head-in-the-sand stance adopted by much of the mainstream media stands in stark contrast. The most recent example of the latter was a 15-page supplement in The Canberra Times (CT) on 17 May – ‘Our Next Steps’, on the Defence Strategic Review. It was a most shameful collection of war-mongering articles and images.
Source: Mainstream media need to focus on peace – Pearls and Irritations
This Editorial Opinion is a Ch9 is free election Ad not a subscription piece for paying readers
On any other day on any other topic if you want to read Peter Costello’s AGE you need to subscribe and if you don’t you won’t get delivery, and your locked out of the digital version of what it declares is a “News Paper”. However strangely enough not this editorial “opinion piece” or better said propaganda piece written by Parnell Palme McGuinness. Parnell is a PR Liberal Party hack who can be found writing for Murdoch’s Australian and in this case The Age preaching to everyone without any need to subscribe to vote “No” and that’s no accident. That’s the clear and loud mainstream media that calls itself News in this country over 66% controlled by the elite and powerhouse conservatives of this country doing to Indigenous Australians what has been done to them for the past 240 shameful years. The only colonial country on the planet that still declares that the Indigenous First Nations people need no recognition, treaty or voice.
Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director strategy and policy at award-winning campaigns firm Agenda C. The company was engaged to work for a Liberal Party MP during the federal election. She has also worked for the German Greens.
Source: Voice to parliament: Now is a good time for the Yes campaign to panic
Let’s get this out of the way quickly because it’ll allow me more time to be as obnoxious as I can possibly be. I was extremely correct about the Victorian election being a casual stroll in the park for the sitting Premier, unlike, mysteriously, nearly all of my journalistic brethren. The odds-on heavy favourite Daniel Andrews won his third term with a predictable majority no one else in the media seems to have predicted. 🤷♂️
Source: Why everyone (except me) was wrong about the Victorian election | The Shot
Founder and publisher Dave Donovan and managing editor Michelle Pini analyse the widening disconnect between Australia’s concentrated legacy media and its audience.
Australian journalists are at war with their audience and the audience says ‘enough’!
Save the ABC! Improve Internet Freedom! Increase Media Diversity. While the LNP attacks the ABC, wants to control the Internet and rejects media diversity the MSM have his back. They supports their current quid pro quo arrangement with Murdoch Costello and Stokes but are certainly pissed at the way he zig zags them on a daily basis forcing their editors to play “Scotty Says”.
The mainstream media has eschewed objectivity in favouring the Liberal Party’s “let it rip” pandemic strategy, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
Source: Mainstream media applauds Morrison’s ‘let it rip’ strategy
Scott Morrison has perfected the art of media manipulation by briefing a select club of Canberra correspondents at once, rather than leaking to individual media outlets. Callum Foote and Michael West report on the marketing genius of the Prime Minister and the increasingly meek mainstream media.
Feeding the Chooks: Scott Morrison’s marketing triumph over mainstream media – Michael West
This was glaringly apparent during the election campaign and final outcome in the United Kingdom. Jeremy Corbyn was mercilessly savaged and smeared relentlessly. Phrases such as ‘being dirty’, ‘scruffy’, a ‘dangerous Marxist’, and even an ‘IRA terrorist sympathizer’ were used.. Rich words coming from the press when Theresa May is now in bed with a little known terrorist group from Ireland. Of course, media won`t talk about this though! That narrative is not for public ears!
Source: Media’s fatal gambit – » The Australian Independent Media Network
By James Moylan Turnbull suffers a massive loss, the election result is on a knife’s edge, and so the afternoon after the election the Australian press is full of questions about Bill Shorten and his leadership. WTF? All the while not a single one of our mainstream press agencies has devoted any time to trying…
Source: The instant, universal, collective amnesia of the MSM – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The mainstream media has fallen in line with the governments of the UK and Sweden to dispute the legitimacy and significance of the decision by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in favor of Julian Assange, but their claims don’t stack up.
Source: 3 false claims MSM is making about the Assange case — RT Op-Edge
olddogthoughts 
You must be logged in to post a comment.