Fighting Fake News with REAL; 17/12/21; Democracy or Corruption; Journalism, MSM, ACCC

 

 

 

Morrison should stop asking us what we can do for him and ask what he can do for our country ?

A new analysis of more than 190,000 grants shows that Liberal seats have received 3 x as much federal funding as Labor electorates.

Pork-barrelling is the most costly form of soft corruption in Australia – and corruption it is [Unlocked]

Pork-barrelling: the heart of democracy, or ineffective corruption?

 

In Australia, for example, coverage of asylum seekers in the conservative, particularly tabloid, media has over the last decade been based too often on the incorrect framing that they are “illegal” and “queue jumpers.” Too rarely is the coverage based on the facts. This media (intended) failure has enabled the government to continue to persecute innocent people who came to us seeking safety.

Culture war “games” have thus turned life and death issues into something too “political” to address (either rationally) or intelligently. The spirit of Schwartz Media, Michael West Media and our other organisations dedicated to holding the powerful to account needs to be embraced by our legacy masthead writers. We need to consider the laws that can be crafted to balance the damage done by Malcolm Turnbull’s 2017 slashing of our media ownership laws. In a moment when the climate and democracy decay form a deadly helix, we cannot afford to have entertainment or agenda masquerading as news.

We need to debate new ways to fund the reliable news utterly critical to the functioning of democracy.

Too much is at stake to allow our news to frame this moment as “business as usual.”

 

Source: Depressed by the press: journalism bows to the authoritarians – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Morrison hates accountability — this is no secret. Since the start of his political career, he has acted with scant regard for any form of repercussions and any standards he cannot actively control, he rages against. He has consistently lost his temper in Parliament and the truth is an anathema to him. In many ways, he should be a strong media’s dream. He is a constant source of supercilious behaviour, masquerading as an everyman for which journalists can constantly critique.

The media is meant to act as a watchdog for those in power. Politics already has too few checks and balances to ward off corruption in this country, so a fawning media only emboldens this behaviour further. If some in the media aren’t going to do their job as the Fourth Estate, it seems all rather pointless.

Source: Mainstream media is Morrison Government’s puppet

 

 

 

 

The Bulletin 

The LNP has systematically foregoes Democratic process for that of Cultural Capture. It works far better than Carbon Capture. You simply appoint up close and personal ideologically trusted persons, without tender, to positions of influence in pivitol systemic roles whenever, and wherever possible. We have seen appointments made to the UNHCR, the ABC board, Heads of the Public Service Departments, and to countless untendered Consultancy contracts. All to cement and ensure sympathetic future outcomes  even if elections are lost. It could be argued it's a form of  human resource "pork barreling", an understood quid pro quo system of unspoken transactional  exchange.

 

The nomination of a respected lawyer with strong ties to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to head Australia’s powerful competition watchdog agency is drawing scrutiny.

On Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government tapped Gina Cass-Gottlieb to become chairwoman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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MURDOCH FAMILY ASSOCIATE NOMINATED TO BE AUSTRALIAS COMPETITION WATCHDOG

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