Twisted facts, truths lost, ABC shamed
An ABC apology to entrepreneur Dick Smith this week proved its fact check unit is just as ready as US media to twist its reporting to hurt conservative political causes.
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Labor all at sea on asylum seeker policy
Some supporters and left journalists this year even trotted out the old line that most asylum seekers here arrive legally by plane.
Nuclear makes sense but it’s a voter timebomb
The problem is not the policy Peter Dutton has chosen but the politics, as John Howard realised in 2007.
Reporters bang wrong drums on private schools
Too much coverage centres on false narratives: governments underfund education and high fee private schools take money from disadvantaged children at state schools.
Social media’s ignorance fuels hate
Reliance on social media feeds for news is exacerbating global anti-Semitism and allowing highly contested – even completely untrue – legal claims about Israel to become accepted wisdom.
Green journos blind to reality of energy transition
Chris Bowen and his media cheer squad ignore setbacks in the northern hemisphere where coal and gas are being burned at record levels.
Pro-UN bias casts pall over war coverage
You can see why Israelis and many Jews see much of the foreign reporting as deeply anti-Semitic.
Journos serve up lightweight coverage of core tax issues
As more journalists treat reporting politics like picking winners at the races, it is hard to find serious analysis of policy options to improve living standards.
Puerile, naive: media’s failure on Middle East
Too much media coverage is informed by the idea Israel is a colonial European power, even though more than half its Jews are descended from people who never left the Middle East.
Newshound’s stitch-up a shameful tale
Politicians should reflect on the importance of a free media. Steve Barrett’s journalism was never driven by political activism but by a search for truth.
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