A pox on the mainstream media, which has brought all of its problems on itself with selective reporting and acting as a mouthpiece and bully for government, particularly the extreme-Left Albanese government.

News reporting can be a dangerous occupation. Validating it also comes with risk. And can cost a pretty penny to get it to print/air. All to sell pages of advertising.

Today's print media is full of politicised opinion pieces, fake news and straight out BS. And it would seem their profit margins are down?

And are like vultures when there's a scandal to report on, and dare I say, embellish to the extreme.

Yes, they are dinosaurs.

Some do have digital platforms and other small regionals are little more than print media marketplaces. And were quite profitable!

As for big tech, let them pay the piper for the tune. And it is he who calls the tune.

Copyright laws need to be strengthened and far better policed.
Alan B.

WTF?

ttbn says: "A pox on the mainstream media."

But just what is MSM?

Let's use this definition: "the traditional forms of mass media, as television, radio, magazines, and newspapers, as opposed to online means of mass communication."

Where does the power of MSM lie?

Taking News Corp Australia as as example:

News Corp operates 170 newspaper and magazine titles in Australia.

Its TV presents includes: Foxtel, Fox Sports, Hubbl, Kayo Sports, Binge, Flash, Sky News Australia, Sky News Extra and Sky News Weather Channel.

But News Corp also has an online presence through:
News.com.au, Business Spectator, Realestate.com.au as well as gambling and racing sites.

ttnb says: "(MSM)... selective reporting and acting as a mouthpiece and bully for government, particularly the extreme-Left Albanese government."

Perhaps some examples of News Crop doing this would add weight to ttbn's viewpoint.

Then we have the ABC and SBS which are MSM by definition but it can be reasonably argued that their influence is many times less that of News Corp.

So where else can we go? Let's hope that commentors on OLO are not relying on youtube for their information.

Thanks for the article GY. Well analyzed. There is a long history of media laws in Australia. Issues with the business model of legacy media. Biased woke/ socialist ideology in media. News has become "opinion" dominated rather than "fact" dominated.

Facebook/ Meta is perhaps known as having a socialist bias- so in a sense charging Meta is a small win for objectivity.

It appears that the private media is going to have to make difficult changes to staffing. It's hard to see the greater good when you are losing your career permanently. It's going to be difficult for Newscorp media outlets to engage in the town square with the government tax funded ABC woke/ socialist's on an equal footing. A classic case of government market distortion (Milton Friedman). At some stage someone will make a mistake- the private media industry will have cascading organ failure crashing and flaming on the highway- the Australian public will quail and burn- the Labor party socialists will laugh.

WTF? - Not Again one agrees and worse, think it was not financial or business strategy by Oz media players but political or ideological i.e. Murdoch, Costello & Stokes, to access the social media platforms to promote their own content, talking points etc., and attack or troll others especially anything centrist (even 'Biden is old' meme....)

Very clear but anonymous right wing points of Advance - LNP - News - IPA - SPA etc. presence on Twitter via influencers, trolls and bots; then add Musk's tweaking of the algorithms to disappear anything centrist (what was that meeting at the SuperBowl '23 with Musk & Murdoch?); RW media players have nothing to complain about.

On our local RW MSM cartel, that helped dilute regulation for diversity in media and delivery, if they have financial issues they can simply sell out at the market rate according to their own 'free market' principles; too easy.