Tuesday 1 December 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 1/12/20; Right Wing & the Australian Media; Attacking the ABC and Friends;

 The effect of Right-wing bias in Australia's media 

Australia's mainstream news media is largely tied to the Liberal Party which is driving our nation towards authoritarianism.


Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

 The New Daily

Supported by Industrial Super Funds

Old Daily It’s no surprise that News Corp routinely amplifies Liberal Party attacks on The New Daily. It’s a faintly progressive media outlet that can provide content for free, thanks in part to the support of industry super funds.

Now, an item in The Australian‘s Media Diary shows the publication has hit the hat-trick of right-wing irritants: Senator Andrew Bragg has attacked TND for giving money to the ABC.

Of course the underlying point of an attack aimed at the TND is that it represents some kind of profligacy with members’ money. But what always seems to get lost in Bragg’s attacks is that these funds consistently outperform retail funds and are an example of the industrial cooperation conservatives are always calling for. By law, they are controlled 50:50 by unions and big employer groups.

Note: Eric Beecher, chairman of Private Media, which owns Crikey, is chair of Motion Publishing, which publishes The New Daily.

 

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Morrison is a Trumpster it's all style over meaning.

An all-out trade war with China would cost Australia 6% of GDP

 

 FAKE NEWS

 

CHINA PUTS KNIFE TO OUR THROAT. MORRISON MUCKS UP DEFENCE

Scott Morrison says China posting a doctored image of an Australian soldier with a knife to the throat of an Afghan child "cannot be justified on any basis whatsoever". The bad news is that he's wrong. What he should have said is that China is at war with Australia, holding us to standards that this dictatorship betrays every day.

Andrew Bolt has been stirring the hornets nest for decades and probably for much longer. He works for Rupert Murdoch who China threw out of their country and thwarted Murdoch's ambitions for a real global media empire. His efforts in the UK didn't fare much better with the scandal about the News of the World.Murdoch was on the brink of being closed down justifying China's actions of showing him the door. 

"Standards that this dictatorship betrays every day" might well be applied to Scott Morrison's LNP. After all he was the architect of  secrets withheld from us of what the Abbott government was doing in our name to asylum seekers. It was Morrison that coined the phrase "on the water matters" to withhold information. Meanwhile the atrocities occurring in Australia's detention centers were leaking out like water from a colander.

 The hypocrisy of the LNP  is indigestible given their holier than thou current stand on China with the aid of Murdochians like Andrew Bolt sellin China as the villain why? To simply boost their anti-immigration anti-multicutural right-wing racist stand on the Australia they want to have us become. Bolt has been pushing the One Nation anti-Asian position John Howard had stolen from Pauline Hanson decades ago and has never really stopped. Muslims Africans Asians and other Australian minorities have been made to suffer the bullshit peddled about them for political gain. They were chosen and simply called unwanted while a white Australian model sold to maintain an IPA desired political influence. It remains the driving force to retain political power and it's never really stopped since the Howard years. 

VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: CHINA VS AUSTRALIA

When China lectures Australia about human rights, we should answer back with one statistic: how many Chinese flee to Australia and claim asylum? And how many Australians flee to China? Let's compare...

How many Jews are currently leaving Israel? Are they leaving or fleeing the newly formed,  unrecognized, self declared aparthied State?  Indians are our current largest immigrant arrivals are they fleeing? When Tony Abbott took over the government in 2013 and severely cut the funding the largest number of professional Australians left. Scientists fled along with researchers left a country that no longer wanted them.

How fucked up is Andrew Bolt one moment he's writing that the Chinese in Australia are far too 'loyal' to China and can't be trusted. If that is his truth they aren't fleeing are they? Here he is flipping and flopping one day to the next today he's saying they simply want to leave at all cost. However many of the Chinese who do arrive are even from China? Many are from Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia . Bolt says anything to suit the occasion and conclusion he wants. He flip flops from one news cycle to another.



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