How would you rank the parties’ policies?
Peter Newman: 1. Labor 2. Greens 3. Coalition
Leslie Hughes: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
Nerilie Abram: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
Andy Pitman: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
How would you rank the parties’ policies?
Peter Newman: 1. Labor 2. Greens 3. Coalition
Leslie Hughes: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
Nerilie Abram: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
Andy Pitman: 1. Greens 2. Labor 3. Coalition
Whatever his talents, and however impressive his record, he has been a canker on Australian democracy. Finally he seems to have run out of platforms, not because of the harm he has done to the social fabric but because he is no longer rating well and bringing in big advertising dollars. That is the way it was always going to end.
Source: The last squawk? Alan Jones finally seems to have nowhere to go
The president, appearing to be in a foul mood during the interview, repeatedly complains that he faces “tough questions” while his Democratic rival Joe Biden gets “softball” questions.
Donald Trump airs 60 Minutes interview, decries ‘bias’
The final night of the 2020 RNC, according to Los Angeles Times reporter Stephen Battaglio, had “an average audience of 21.6 million viewers” — whereas former Vice President Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the DNC attracted 24.6 million viewers.
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As for the effort to make NewsGuard compulsory, it was branded as “Orwellian” by MacDonald. “Brainwashing kids with pro-government or pro-elite or pro-status quo messaging sounds very sinister,” he said.
So, with some genuinely fake news floating around out there and apps like NewsGuard which are problematic in their own way, how can people consume news consciously?
“The best thing anyone can do is read as wide a variety of sources as possible and form their own conclusions,” MacDonald advised. “One thing the internet era has shown is that people are not stupid. And when they have a variety of information available, they will draw their own conclusions.”
and Alternative News5 hours ago
A new browser extension app called NewsGuard promises to give readers better insight into the credibility of news sites by providing…