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Our media are a national tragedy : Comments

By Peter West, published 16/2/2016

Once upon a time, journalists reported what happened. This is far from true today. The media try to convert endless events into a kind of opera.

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SBS and ABC give us two lots of stuff about Aborigines, all fairly predictable and there's never anything very controversial. I think there are clear overlaps.

West didn't mention that sex sells. In every way, almost any branch of the media - especially the commercial TV channels- give us busty girls, and men who are clearly to be admired- altho usually they seem to admire themselves........
Posted by Waverley, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 6:38:58 PM
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Ninth: The media have been at the forefront of all the Western propaganda campaigns of recent years that have allowed the US/Nato to invade, bomb and generally destroy several otherwise functional countries, kill millions of innocent people and leave millions more homeless.

Whenever US/Nato needs to overthrow or intimidate an uncooperative regime, you can always depend on the Western media to obligingly monsterfy the current tyrant de jour. The Western media and US/Nato go together like Putin and MH17, Gadaffi and viagra, Saddam and WMDs - and are equally based on tissues of lies.
Posted by Killarney, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 7:19:45 PM
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Killarney I think you have a point.
Murdoch and Thatcher; Murdoch and Howard... just the tip of the iceberg.
Sad really.
Posted by Waverley, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 8:36:41 PM
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The ABC is as bad as it gets. Yet again it has been caught out printing rumours as fact in order to push its political agenda.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 6:23:22 AM
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Oh mate I think breakfast TV must be the worst
Or the stuff that comes on in the morning,

or even midday...
If I'm ever dumb enough to turn the idiot box on before 5pm or so..............
Posted by Waverley, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 9:30:21 AM
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