Opinion polls are the result of asking as few as 1,000 of us our view, save the effort look here.
In OLO I think you can see a mirror in to Australia.
BUT! too an over representation of marginal views from both extremes, any podium that can be used by such will be used.
Tell me these views are not true, my links to Fairfax and ABC are seen as from slanted sides.
Mostly I see the same , not always, in Murdock Media.
Can we both be right/wrong.
Channel nine sacked reporters for? pretending to be doing a live broadcast!
See the link, Wrestling/politics reporting/shock jocks /and inventing acting ?
Any one care to comment on Australian Politics? linked to 24/7 need for story's, talking heads giving their opinions in comments,who may in the end know nothing about the subject?
Is our disdain for one side of politics feeding shock jocks and media in bringing us all down?
Goggle shock jocks, read about a dozen of those links.
Then look at those who here in these pages, see only one side , yet scream unfounded claims it is me who is blind.
She,ll be right mate!
Will it? ever be right again?
Maybe, only if.
If the impending explosion , it will be so, of the implications of favoritism/power/influence/bribes/phone tapping brings a new Media, one that puts country's first not private wealth .
We then may again be able to believe what we hear/see/read/
Last be aware, some who have no other podium will visit, threats will be made but never forget Norway, be aware keep safe.

Dear Belly,
The whole world is a furfie these days, one cannot believe most people, (including Politicians and Shock Jocks). The omission of truth in reporting, is equivalent to telling lies. The News, especially on the commercial channels, is more like a production rather than 'telling how it really is".
People really have to anylise what they are being told, divide it all by 4, and then draw their own conclusions. Sadly, when we see on the news, family tragedies, the News Media turns it into a production, asking the bereaved to hold up photos of their departed loved ones. In my view that act alone is the lowest of the low.
I am glad that I am in the latter part of my life, I wouldn't like to still be alive to witness the depths of duplicity that people might plunge in to., it saddens me, scare campaigns usually do just that,it is not necessary, people have enough to contend with these days, it all should stop. Basically, if you cannot tell the truth, don't say anything at all.
I will put my old soap box away for the day now.
Have a good one Belly,
NSB

Shock jocks grow best in poor soil, most my age do not use computers and do not much look for the truth behind issues.
White males mostly over 30 are fodder for such.
Unaware they head down further reducing their Field of vision, believe every news papers and radio shock jock.
Even the ABC is biased, talking heads free to slant the news, ask other heads silly questions .
It is being used by opponents and supporters too, of every party in this country.
Tell me, what gives insight and understanding to those talking heads we do not have?
Then why the pit bull charges they make on the flimsiest of grounds at all sides.
We suffer an ill ness planted by our grand parents, maybe well meaning maybe as a control.
Generations have been told not to talk about politics or religion, leaving some unsure of very much about them.

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Not too deeply buried are what I see as threats
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Get a grip fool and learn some comprehension skills!

Shock jocks we know are radio commentators who owe nothing to truth.
Who become rich, very rich, by becoming a success in that job.
Entertaining a group, getting more to listen.
I would ask only this, do not think I defend my party!
It is true, surely most under stand, to blindly defend your team is pure blind stupidity.
I contend our media, some quite unknowingly, are promoting their views not the news.
And that news Media, knowing and unknowingly, slants every story.
ABC TV, question time just ended, a cross to the studio, two women,first asks* so it appears the government has been bogged down again by the Thomson affair*
A conversation then takes place and we hear about that side of the debate.
We do not hear about the Liberal senator,but those watching may ask this, why is this man, a possible grub, make that certain, being charged before his trial?
News Media feeds us its version of the news,even at times unitentualy slants the news.
We fall at their feet if they slant it our way but cry if it is the other.
Post the impending world wide scandal we call phone related, we may just get a news service aware of its duty's.
I remind posters some, are not here to talk but to abuse, not to think but to push extremes no one will hear elsewhere.

Belly,
Most shock Jocks identified here are talkback so the opinion broardcast is not just the commentators opinion. It represents a large area of public opinion. You may not like it but it is a democratic opinion. Until we have State censure of expression the facts of freedom of opinion reigns.