#ABC admits to helping promote #RupertMurdoch propagandists & lies #Thisisnotjournalism #auspol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZn8P_FOLyk

RT @rnclelland@twitter.com

Again you have to wonder if the worker drones in #Newscorpse's Holt Street rats' nest really believe the tripe they churn out, or are they just laughing at the numpties they're dogwhistling to for the guarantee of a paycheque in a shrinking industry?
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rnclelland/status/1667053502504513537

#Murdoch has dropped the lawsuit against #crickey , that's good but this is still a sham. Check out this first video for the backstory: #brilliant #msm #Thisisnotjournalism #FriendlyJordies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI8qOPP3JT0

Voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems and Fox have reached a settlement in a high-profile defamation case in the United States. 

Dominion's CEO said the case was settled for $US787.5 million ($1.17 billion) and that Fox had admitted telling lies about his company.

#Thisisnotjournalism #MurdochRoyalCommission #foxnews #Newscorpse

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/fox-and-dominion-reach-settlement-in-defamation-lawsuit/102239394

I had a flicker of hope when I saw this story appear in the “Just In” section on the ABC’s news site. It appeared, by chance, right next to the article I commented on yesterday ( https://aus.social/@infinite8horizon/110217076075074271 ) that clearly should have included exactly this kind of explanation.

But no.

An hour later, the article had already sunk down the “Top Stories” list, below funeral insurance, and speculation about the next “Neighbours” show, while the original piece remained pinned high near the top of the page.

…and “Warmer at the beach”? Seriously?

Worse still, although the entire article is, in fact, about the rapid and disastrous rise in sea surface temperatures, it follows EXACTLY the ABC recipe for climate denial:
there is precisely ONE mention of climate change in the entire article. One. And it happens half-way through, buried in mid-sentence.
Not only is that buried, the lede is also buried (see pic 3).

Of course, if challenged about their lack of coverage of climate change, this is exactly the kind of article the ABC will trot out to “prove” they’re reporting on it.

This is just atrocious lying by omission and minimisation. The existential challenge facing the whole world, one mention, in what’s ostensibly an “explainer”.

How about “How the entire planet and your way of life is threatened by reversible climate change”, not “warmer at the beach”….

#ThisIsNotJournalism #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #ABC

I saw this headline and immediately placed a bet with myself which, sadly, I always win.
I bet that this article, like nearly *every* ABC explainer about weather and climate, would completely fail to mention climate change.

Of course, I won. Again.

The ABC has a years’ long track record of avoiding this existential topic.
Article after article will delve into deep technical detail about various phenomena, like Annular Modes and Ocean Dipoles and sea temperature, but *never* ask the next, obvious question: why is this getting more frequent? Why is this getting more intense? What can we do to STOP it getting worse?
Ethical, professional, journalists don’t stop asking “why”, but the ABC does, every time, and this is no exception.
Not a single mention of climate change.

I have receipts and objective, statistical measures of 316 articles as well, if you’re not convinced with this anecdotal evidence.
https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/whatever-you-do-dont-mention-the-climate-change/

The second image is an excerpt from a separate article of mine on the same topic.

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #ABC #ThisIsNotJournalism #Why

AEST

#NewsCorpe #Australia has published multiple articles by staff writers presented as news about lottery winners but which are advertising products paid for by the lottery and lifted from its promotional material.
The media company earns revenue from publishing the articles and receives a share of the ticket sales through the links, but the articles were not marked as advertorial. #Thisisnotjournalism #MurdochRoyalCommission #propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/13/news-corp-australia-publishes-mater-lottery-promotions-presented-as-news-stories-about-winners

Be honest, now, if you were asked what the BIGGEST IDEA you could come up with for dealing with climate change, would your number one be “stop burning fossil fuel”, or “guerrilla gardening”?

Every time I point out this inevitability-denialism, “reasonable” people respond, saying, “You’re over-reacting. The science says we’re headed for at least <insert latest figure> degree warming, so it’s actually a responsible thing to talk about how to prepare for it”.

To which I reply, “Absolutely. Now, tell me, reasonable person: in the face of a global epidemic, would your first advice to people be about obtaining the CURE, or to tell them the best ways to deal with the SYMPTOMS? Or, to put it another way, if your house is on fire, do you instruct people on how to use a firehose, or how to toast marshmallows?”

Any article that purports to be about “adapting” to climate change that doesn’t start with “but the first, and possibly only thing we must do is to stop it getting any worse,” isn’t really trying to help at all. It’s fossil-fuel propaganda about INEVITABILITY. It’s not encouraging hope, it’s trying to extinguish it, because our only hope is to STOP this change, not “adapt” to it with guerrilla gardening.

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #TheGuardian #ThisIsNotJournalism #OvertonWindow

Of all forms of climate denialism, this is the most insidious, and it does The Guardian very little credit to simultaneously tag it “Climate Crisis” and then amplify its message. It’s INEVITABILITY denialism.

This is an example of the latest step in a long line of fossil-fuel PR attacks on climate change.
They go, roughly:
1. There is no climate change
2. The data are wrong
3. We’re not heating up we’re cooling down
4. If we’re heating up, it’s just a cycle
5. Humans haven’t caused this cycle
6. If humans have contributed, it’s just a fraction
7. Look, we’ve painted our logo green, and you should stop using plastic straws, it’s all because of your footprint
…and finally
8. Well, we can’t avoid it, it’s inevitable, here’s how to prepare for the zombie apocalypse

This is a “zombie apocalypse” article. Its sole purpose (other than promoting the author’s profile and books) is to rapidly move the Overton window from “perhaps we really should do something” to “oh, it’s too late, all we can do now is build barricades against the zombies”.

How do I know?
Because in a 1,000 word essay on climate change, the words “stop burning fossil fuel” never appear. The words “guerrilla gardening” do, however, which is a dead giveaway that all this arm-waving about “hope” and “determination” is really a message about INEVITABILITY.

🧵 …

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #TheGuardian #ThisIsNotJournalism #OvertonWindow

Seriously?

“Remember when, before the election, we all agreed the ALP’s target was too little, too late, and their explicit backing for MORE fossil fuel mining and export was clear evidence of bad faith, and the phony offsets scam was just further proof that they weren’t serious?
Well, nearly a YEAR later, and The Guardian is being cautiously excited that they APPEAR to be doing some of the things they promised. Wow.
I mean, apart from approving more mining and exports, and not changing the target or date, and continuing to pretend that offsets mean something. Apart from that.
*Apparently* there are rumours that in addition, they MIGHT not approve so many new projects. There’s no proof for this, it’s just a journalist’s speculation, no corroboration, but the hint of a possibility of a suggestion they might do the little they promised is so fantastic, a year later, we should all go out, celebrate, and get drunk. Shame about the planet our grandchildren will live in, but wow, what fantastic people the ALP are, eh?”

FMD. And from Mr. Morton.

#auspol #alp #ClimateChange #ThisIsNotJournalism

This is a disappointing missed opportunity from The Guardian, but particularly from Josh Taylor who’s usually excellent.
Sure, by all means explain what the potential security risks are from a specific social-media app that collects all manner of data on its owners, but to go the entire article without even *whispering* that many other IT giants are not only capable of the same behaviour, they *do* it, can’t be a lapse, it must be deliberate.
The only difference between them all is the nationality of their head office, and hiding behind “oh, but it’s an explainer about *TikTok* and not the problem in general” isn’t going to cut it.
That they collect, and use, or more properly abuse huge amounts of “private” information isn’t at debate, and neither for that matter is the acknowledged truth that “law enforcement” can and does access lots of this data, quite frequently without the appropriate checks and balances. But apparently it’s ok if a capitalist state does it, and it’s not even worth mentioning that it’s the *identical* behaviour and risk.
Unfortunately The Guardian has shown itself quite happy to play along with the “China bad” black-and-white trivialisation of geopolitics, and this appears to be another symptom.
#auspol #SurveillanceCapitalism #panopticon #ThisIsNotJournalism

A former Premier of Queensland (Bjelke-Petersen) gained notoriety for many reasons, one of which was his inability to explain the doctrine of the separation of powers, a fundamental tenet of Westminster democratic systems.
It seems Guardian journalists also lack knowledge of this basic principle, because the only alternative to unforgivable ignorance is deliberate malice.
In one short headline they’ve also apparently divined what’s contained in a sealed indictment and passed judgment on that as being “right” as well. The contempt for process and principles is amazing.

#ThisIsNotJournalism #uspol #ThreeBranches #SeparationOfPowers #InnocentUntilProvenGuilty

Former PM #MalcolmTurnbull has accused Murdoch's media empire of undermining democracy, and says a rigorous inquiry into Murdoch's #Newscorpse is needed in the wake of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against #FoxNews in the U.S. #Thisisnotjournalism #auspol https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Turnbull-takes-on-Murdoch-s-Australian-media-empire

By my calculations, it takes about 40 right-wing MPs to ruin a party, and a country of 25 million with it.

For a party to win government, only half the voters need support them, less than 13 million.
But all those votes translate into only 105 MPs needed for a majority in both houses.
And only half of that majority need be in the controlling faction of the party, and suddenly from 25 million we’re down to slightly more than 50, and if there are more than two factions, and there always are, it only needs the largest faction. Say 40 people.

Of course, within those 40 there are a handful of power-brokers and policy-makers, architects of schemes like RoboDebt, school chaplains and the Religious Discrimination bill, and laughingly handing lumps of coal around.

THOSE are the people who smashed the Liberal party, and 25 million Australians could see it, and said so.
Just not Andrew Probyn.
Political Editor.

#auspol #ABC #ThisIsNotJournalism #gaslighting #Dutton

What transparent and childish gaslighting this is, from the ABC’s nominal Political Editor.

Even if we were to accept Probyn’s bizarre logic about the root cause for the Liberal’s loss, surely he should have written “Its moderate wing was smashed by VOTERS in the 2022 election”, but he can’t even follow his own warped logic to its obvious conclusion.

What his acute political analysis has failed to detect is the simple and obvious truth: the Liberal Party has been “smashed” by … the Liberal Party. Not by vague, amorphous, unspecified “winds of change”, or by malicious “teals”.

The call is coming from inside the house, and it’s not winds of change, but noxious right-wing farts.

The Liberal party has been skiing off-piste and hard right ever since Howard preselected Hanson and then tossed truth overboard, and it’s the far-right christo-fascist ideologues who have taken the party hostage and “smashed” it.

Whole countries are slow to change, and pretending that the Liberal Party has been somehow slow to react to a sudden lurch to the left by the entire nation, rather than the exact opposite, is a pitiful excuse for political journalism, even by the ABC’s standards.

But Probyn desperately tries to place all the blame outside the party. It’s pathetic, in my opinion.
(cont)...

#auspol #ABC #ThisIsNotJournalism #gaslighting #Dutton

No doubt media historians will argue about the exact moment our national public broadcaster completed its slow decay into a supermarket glossy—one remarkably similar to its Chairperson’s previous masthead—but I’d argue this story encapsulates the moment…
On the front page, under “National Top Stories”, and with the additional badge of expertise and importance, “ANALYSIS”.

SMDH.

#ThisIsNotJournalism #OurABC #ABC #media

“star power”
#ThisIsNotJournalism

Gladys Berejiklian's star power could be Liberals' NSW election trump card - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-18/gladys-berejiklian-election-showing-could-help-hinder-liberals/102106588

#auspol
#NSWpol

In the race to the bottom Nine media is giving Murdoch media a run for its dirty money. #thisisnotjournalism #nine #murdoch #misinformation #media #journalism “‘Pretentious’, ‘hyperbolic’ and ‘irresponsible’: what was behind Nine newspapers’ Red Alert series? | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/16/pretentious-hyperbolic-and-irresponsible-what-was-behind-nine-newspapers-red-alert-series

Need I say more?
Note also that there’s not a hint of evaluation of any of Keating’s criticisms, just a fact-free dismissal with the insult “spray”. Note as well that, despite all the excellent* journalism* and reporting* up until now, apparently it required criticism by Keating to, potentially, extract an explanation from the government for a $365b commitment, simply with a “spray”.

Says a lot for the probing investigative skills of our author, or the MSM as a whole.

What a pathetic excuse for the fourth estate.

#ThisIsNotJournalism
#aukus #speers #keating #submarines #auspol

When a journalist chooses to use pejorative words like “spray” to describe factually-based criticism, it tells you much more about the journalist than the topic they claim to be reporting.

Let’s just review short biographies of Keating and Speers:

Keating:
Served the Australian public for 27 years as MP, Treasurer, Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister

Achievements included the Prices and Incomes Accord, the float of the Australian dollar, the elimination of tariffs, the deregulation of the financial sector, the first federal budget surplus, and reform of the taxation system, including the introduction of capital gains tax, fringe benefits tax, and dividend imputation.
Introduced the landmark Native Title Act, compulsory superannuation and enterprise bargaining, created a national infrastructure development program, the APEC leaders' meeting, and promoted republicanism by establishing the Republic Advisory Committee.

Awarded Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year
Refused an AC, saying being PM was recognition enough
Chair of International Advisory Committee of China Development Bank, including such lightweights as Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker and a former head of the IMF

Speers:
Ex-Murdoch talking head
Accused Keating of a “spray”

🧵…

#ThisIsNotJournalism
#auspol #aukus #keating #speers #submarines