I can smell Hillary Clinton up-wind.

Barack Obama is a homosexual , Michelle Obama is a transvestite and their kids are adopted.

All praise to Donald Trump.

Dan

The Australian media should not "promote" anything: it should stick to the business of reporting. It certainly should not be listening to someone from an organisation " ….working solely to address racism in Australia". Nobody should be listening to anyone or anything so obsessed with supposed 'racism' - particularly when that person and organisation thinks Islam is a race.

"We need the media to be free and we need the media to be diverse". Free to say what Priscilla Brice wants them to say, and HER brand of 'diversity' which is not tolerant of other people's opinions, which she regards as 'racist'.

"The Australian media should not "promote" anything: it should stick to the business of reporting."
What a neat summation of the media's role!
It is, or should be, a report of actuality, not of wishes.
Opinion should be based upon the logical examination of contrasting viewpoints.
Many contributors and consumers of mass media seem to regard it as a platform for promotion.

As soon as you see dog-whistling, you know the writer is a lefty twit, full of hate, with no other argument than to try to denigrate those who disagree with them.

The media should stay the hell out of cultural matters.

I don't remember the general population being anywhere near as anti the Italians & Greeks back in the day, which tends to indicate the Muslims have brought the low esteem they are held in, on themselves.

I found it hard to take seriously what I was reading.
Quote: of the 281 media pieces sampled discussing Muslims and Islam in a negative way.

What on earth would you expect ? These people are slaughtering others
simply because they do not believe in their religion !

Kill the Jews and the Christians if they do not convert to Islam or
refuse to pay Jizya tax. (9:29)

Would you obey this command from Allah ?

Is this what you support ?
If so you are a useful idiot and first in line.

An opinion is totally different from somebody's observation & subsequent reporting. The Media is just so over-guilty of not reporting !

And the most racist people are? You guessed it, the white middle aged male. Just ask Jussie Smollet and the numerous other haters who make up fake race crimes. I wonder if we could have a 'not for profit' looking at the effects of toxic feminist ideologies on boys? I doubt any funding is available from Governments or Corporates.

runner,
I agree but you left out the religious zealots !

And the most racist people are? You guessed it, the white middle aged male
runner,
one more thing, they're also the most discriminated against these days !

Yes, and a united media is extraordinarily powerful! But easily divided by vested interest.

But the current media environment is not one that is likely to continue? And should use the current climate to push for a bill of rights, which must include the freedom of the press.
Alan B.

freedom of the press.
Alan b,
Which press has the integrity to be given such freedom In Australia to report rather than just express opinion willy nilly ?

Yes individual, the very last people you would want to trust with any more freedom would be the press, particularly the ABC 7 its spin off SBS.

The opposition Leader was on the radio (audio media) complaining about Facebook (internet media) and of the fake stuff he sees on it? Without giving any example of alleged fake news without supplying a single shred of evidence! So easy for a Lawyer to allege something, without any whiff of alleged example!

One hopes he is not referring to me and my posting of several evidential videos supporting MSR and Nuclear energy!

And the reason for elbow's unhelpful, unsupported commentary, given the Labor Patry's well known and mindless opposition to nuclear energy!? TBC.

Alan, can I ask? There was a chap on QandA some weeks, probably more than a month ago, who was very articulate and well informed about Thorium Salt Reactors and was questioning the panel on why it was not being considered, because of all it's benefits over, so called, renewables and other forms of power generation.
He was very well informed, and for some strange reason, I began to think it might have been you.
I was quite pleased and heartened to see/hear someone bringing this topic to the people, by the use of this program. Only asking, if it was you, good for you, that's what I call positive action. Thanks to this guy, or if it was you, millions of people now have heard of the salt technology.
Unfortunately, I am saddened by the fact that, the public would rather listen to useless drivel about something which has nothing to do with them, I won't elaborate, there are too many topics to mention, where-as something which is affecting us all right now in our own homes, well who cares, I hear them say, and so we pay, and pay and pay.
Whilst some scumbag electricity moguls and their govt mates get fatter at our expense.
Just wondered if it was you Alan, that's all.

As for the topic in question.
There is no doubt, that the media should have nothing to say in the way of opinions or suggestions regarding ANYTHING!
ttbn pretty much covered it well, that's why I left it till now to respond.
An example of this is when that miserable excuse of a female turned to the camera and had ago at parents with young boys, and told them to tell their boys 'to stop raping girls'.
And you guys wonder why I go off the deep end.
I hate arrogance, and she has buckets of it.
She's on TV because of her looks, nothing else.
So the idea that a know-nothing female suddenly comes out with an opinion, which was not called for, nor is she qualified to give it, (remember she is a presenter, not a sociologist,) is pathetic.
Media people have to be brought back into line.
The problem being that the general public, (plebs) are so besotted by these nobodies that they have been treating them as idols and gods.
So the media is there to report not embellish, or promote some personal agenda, which is by now, well recognised as left biased so as to attract the attention of the plebs.
As the saying goes,'why let the truth get in the way of a good lie'?

I suppose another valid question would be, why are the people in Australian media so backward in their mentality ?

Sounds like another left whinge call for censorship!..

No Altrav, that wasn't me on Q+A. And I remember the speaker and his question where he questioned, why weren't we using thorium batteries or some such then when on to talk about MSR"s.

To which the panel to a generic man, drew blank looks and some vague comment about nuclear energy. All while Tony Jones interrupted continuously as seems his dogged moderation style? And got the debate shut down with little critical information actually ventilated.

I Appliedsome time ago for the citizen's panel but while I am a regular, invited commentator on matters ABC.

That same (ABC) password that is remembered by my system, was repeatedly rejected by the Q+A app. Almost as if my name has been blacklisted by Q+A? And the anti-nuclear brigade inside the ABC?

The media are charged before anything else, to inform rather than censor certain subjects on political or activism grounds!? Q+A is not a news outlet per se, but a current affairs platform, with public involvement.

Politicians shouldn't abuse their power and persona, come on air claiming some media outlet (Facebook) has published fake news without at least identifying exactly what is challenged!

And while that is not OK!

Even worse are politicians who simply refuse to answer questions, that we the people, their employer, have a right to know! And shouldn't be brushed away as rumour or gossip or inside a bubble, inside a smaller bubble.

Even worse is legislation passing the floor of the house, without any debate whatsoever! And without any accompanying supporting documentation? Now that if true, is newsworthy around the globe! May have happened elsewhere, in say, the Wiemer republic?
Alan B.

Even worse are politicians who simply refuse to answer questions,
Alan B,
One of my favourite gripes. That's two-edged sword because a lot if not the majority of reporters aren't looking for facts, they're looking for any remark they can further their leftist agenda with !
7.30 Report, Q & A etc are simply just Common sense bashing forums !

just read that Q & A is finished. Any other good News ?

What a rubbishy article. The media already spends an inordinate amount of time and effort pushing the multiculti agenda and other left-wing causes. Evidently that's still not enough to placate Priscilla Brice.

"A media monitoring report recently conducted by All Together Now found that a majority (57 percent) of race-related opinion pieces in the mainstream media over the past year were racist."

Somehow, I doubt this report looked at instances of anti-white racism in the media. Or anti-Anglo sentiment. Both of which are on the rise.

"Muslim Australians were the most frequently targeted, with more than a quarter (28 per cent) of the 281 media pieces sampled discussing Muslims and Islam in a negative way."

And what about anti-Christian sentiment? Was that examined?

In any case, it is patently idiotic to claim that discussing Islam - or any other religion - in "a negative way" equates to racism. A belief system is not an ethnic/racial group.

"Media organisations could move the needle by addressing diversity within their own ranks. In 2016, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) revealed that the average Australian media and entertainment employee was 27, male, Caucasian and living in Sydney's Eastern suburbs or the Inner West."

In other words, too many white people!

Priscilla Brice should lead by example and allow her position to be taken by a person of non-European ancestry.

Australian media is united but not in the way we hoped, or should I say monopolised there is currently little to no mainstream media outlets that I view with extreme scepticism, even the ABC with a misconception that its left wing Labor leaning, that couldn’t be further from the truth, it’s Government funded and it’s board stacked with a LNP picked directors. It’s no wonder Labor lost with the constant barrage of misinformation and smear campaigns. Bill Shorten was unpopular! Says who? Ask most ALP members and they’ll tell you the opposite, ask his voters base in Marbyrnong in Melbournes west and the answer will be the same, he’s a great guy I’ve met him and seen him around town he is down to earth, will give anyone the time of day and has done great things for his electorate. If Bill was so wooden, what was Howard?