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“Warracknabeal Energy Park gets Victorian approval as community worries about impact.’ (Source ABC News)

I’m not going to link to the article, it’s easy enough to find if required. I just wanted to point out that the #ABC reporting on the Victorian Govt approval for a very large windfarm project is absolutely disgraceful. For a public broadcaster with a remit to report and inform to report opposition opinions without providing the facts on the matter, is tantamount to #Lobbying on behalf of #NIMBYs and #ClimateDeniers.

The fact that this *local* *opposition* to the #WindFarm project invokes environmental concerns is especially galling given the environmental impact of their farming practices (past and present).

I don’t even want to talk about their BS concerns with “impacts on human health, on noise, on visual amenity loss”. I mean, visual amenity loss, really? It’s farmland morons. Why is the ABC platforming these nutters?

#GiveMeBAckMyABC #ThisIsNotJournalism

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RaymondPierreL3 May 9

@joannejacobs
Eh… you have ‘great expectations’ for this show, sry to dissapoint but…

You’re right of course, #Insiders is not a without its right-wing neoliberal bias. Not only is the bias evidenced by the ‘in your face’ #Host, it’s in your face in the limited variety of guests appearances (with few exceptions amongst the panel). For all the information/news it provides, you might as well watch #FoxNewstainment and risk being brainwashed like an increasing proportion of Australian voters.

#GiveMeBackMyABC
#ThisIsNotJournalism
#Newstainment
#AuPol

RaymondPierreL3 May 9

“Factcheck: The ABC’s claim that "8 million rely on income support" conflated paid sick leave with income support”

When I read the ABC article, my mind did a backflip. We have a population of what? Some 25M ? 8M are on inscome support? That’s a little less than a Third of the population on income support? Wow, ‘No Way’ my mind said. Thats’ like, 1 in 3 ? Freaking hell!

#GiveMeBackMyABC #FactCheck #SloppyJournalism
#AusPol

Factcheck: The ABC’s claim that "8 million rely on income support" conflated paid sick leave with income support

The problem is, that the ABC article was not based on data from the Department of Social Services. Rather, it was based on research compiled for a life insurers lobby group, whose board are all CEOs of insurance companies.

The Point

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RaymondPierreL3 Apr 7

@amyfallon
As long as they keep appointing pseudo-journalists (aka neoliberal propagandists) to management roles in the ABC, it’s not going to be reporting without bias and therefore utterly Fail to “inform’ the public.

They try to cover their obvious bias by offering ‘both-sideism’, which does not do.

#GiveMeBackMyABC #ThisIsNotJournalism

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RaymondPierreL3 Feb 19

@InsurgoFormica
TBH, Whether 9, 7 or 10, it’s all shit and only marginally better than TrollFoxNews. SBS is bland enough and ABC is chaotic. I’m not a happy with the slop we get on free to air period. Ergo, I don’t watch very often at all.

I prefer to see reportage, editorials, opinions and analysis in print(digital). Makes it easier to have a good think about what is said (written) and to spot mis-disinformation.

#ThisISNotJournalism #GiveMeBackMyABC