RaymondPierreL318h ago

“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

AMonkeyInSilk5d ago

#abc730

Banging on about ‘broken promises’ reminds me of a petulant child rubbing their eyes with balled fists and blubbering. “B-but y-you p-p-promised.”

Australians and Australian politics deserve a better media and standard of journalism.

#Auspol #Thisisnotjournalism #ABC

Show threadRaymondPierreL3May 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

Nate CochraneMay 6
It’s just amazing that all those CPG journos sat in that Labor Govt press conference about the #ISISBrides and not one of them raised the IDF soldiers complicit in genocide holidaying in Australia or returning home. #auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
RaymondPierreL3Apr 22

Words of wisdom from #AmyRemeikis:

“There is very little curiosity outside of the business pages about why Rinehart is doing this (Sarah Martin at the Guardian a noted exception). Context has very rarely been a forte of mainstream media, which tends to see adding in historical facts and events in their total context as rubbing up against their ideas of ‘objectivity’. That’s always been a problem, but it’s becoming an increasing threat to our democracy, with legacy media – not just in Australia, but also in the US and the UK – showing itself incapable of handling a backslide in democracy, partly because it doesn’t see context and proper analysis of power as necessary.”
Source: https://www.deepcutnews.com

#ThisIsNotJournalism

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Show threadRaymondPierreL3Apr 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

Show threadRaymondPierreL3Mar 15

@tonyr641
Ahhh, well played #ABC… spin the environmental disaster that this algeal bloom poses days before the polling booths open… well, given that you are so into #BothSideism in you reporting I look forward to some juicy embarrassing titbits on the #Libs, #Nats and #PHON, and any other #IND you can throw dirt at.

I really wish there was some analysis reporting on the #Policies all candidates are taking about because the rest of the msm surely won’t, but I guess that is too much to hope for from mediocre reporting.

#ThisIsNotJournalism. The ABC ought to be about #Informing the public and helping electors to make an informed choice at the ballet box, not about an climate induced and dangerous natural phenomenon that science is hard pressed to contain (as if a policy/legislation could ever eradicate that problem).

What do we have to do to get journalists/editors to do a half decent job of it? Ppffftttt.

Show threadRaymondPierreL3Mar 11
@InsurgoFormica
Good journos… aahhh for the good old days. Whatever happened to ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’? Use to be that when you did you advanced the cause. Nowadays it looks like the cause is mediocrity.
#ThisIsNotJournalism
Show threadRaymondPierreL3Feb 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

RossNov 20
The grubs at the Courier Mail trying a sneaky attack on QLD teacbers. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol