Andrew Bolt's Blog, 24/12/18; Access Journalism underlies Bolt's work;

  How 'access journalism' is threatening investigative journalism

 Andrew Bolt hates investigative journalism. He admits he chose to be an Obit writer and jumped aboard the then growing trend of 'access journalism' instead because 'real' journalism was becoming a dead weight to the business of News at News Corp.  He has even, due to the amount of criticism he's received over the years, dropped calling himself a journalist but a commentator instead. However, he's not really a commentator either, if one assumes a truly informed commentary is based on verifiable 'facts' gathered from primary sources rather than secondary links. Andrew Bolt's does neither nor does he format what he does in any way encourage debate or form a two-way discussion. Even the comment sections, where available, are heavily moderated to favour News Corp's sales pitch. In most cases, he only provides an exclusive platform for others to support them using alt-conservatives, extreme right-wing voices or his own written for him monologues and editorials delivered for him to be read off autocues.
The difference is obvious when one compares The Bolt Report and his pathetically produced, first Podcast.

The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently called this new form “access journalism”. In this form, journalists report the access, usually an allegation, and do not either prove or disprove the allegation. This form has the following features:

• the evidence is based on sources who cannot be named

• there is no evidence base (such as a document or money trail)

• it lacks transparency, in that the evidence cannot be independently verified

• it serves one side’s agenda (usually the government’s)

• it uses words in the text that have little definition (especially “is linked to”

• it can be written and published very quickly.

The form is undoubtedly a response to the need for media to move faster for stories with big impact. But while allegations might suit US law, in Australia, where depth of research can be a useful legal defence, it is also particularly dangerous under our defamation laws.

Compare the traditional form of “investigative journalism”, which bears these traits:

• it is based on identifiable sources whose standing and credibility enhance the claims

• it is evidence-based (including documents, finances, and so on) proving a specific thesis or proposition formally stated in the text

• its evidence is available for checking

• it serves no-one’s agenda, in that several sides of the argument are heard, allowing readers/viewers to make up their own minds as to the truth

• it does not use words that unnecessarily pre-judge the final conclusion

• it takes a painstaking amount of time to build the evidence base, allow balance, and get legal advice if needed.

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 9/1/18; A Real not Fake Commentator Sidelined Vale Ron; The magic of problem solving by simple rhetoric;

 An irreplaceable distiller of ideas: Ron Tandberg mourned by admirers

People Are Questioning The Credibility Of This Go-To Media Commentator On The Australian South Sudanese Community

Will the Real Yoa Please Stand Up? A Media Request from everyone. It appears verification is not on their agenda.

 

How Israel hopes to make Palestinian refugees disappear | The Electronic Intifada

 
Israel has confirmed that it aims to destroy UNRWA, the UN agency that provides basic health, education and other humanitarian services to more than five million Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
It's quite simple Like Bolt simply call "asylum seekers" "illegals" and poof they are gone. The Australian government and right-wing media like Andrew Bolt have done it so in other words call "UNRWA" "Fake" and it's gone.
 
"This comes days after the Trump administration suggested it planned to cut funding to the agency in retaliation for the Palestinian Authority’s objections to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The US is UNRWA’s largest single donor and a funding cut off could have disastrous humanitarian consequences. In Gaza alone, one million Palestinians – half the population there – rely on UNRWA emergency rations, a number that has soared from just 80,000 in 2000 after years of Israeli siege and military assaults.
But for Israel, UNRWA is part of a problem to be eliminated: the existence of international institutions and agencies that support Palestinians and their rights."

“UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem. It also perpetuates the narrative of the right of return, as it were, in order to eliminate the State of Israel; therefore, UNRWA needs to pass from the world,” Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting.

The Israeli prime minister urged that UNRWA support funds be gradually shifted to UNHCR – the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “This is how to rid the world of UNRWA and deal with genuine refugee problems, to the extent that such remain,” Netanyahu added, calling most Palestinian refugees “fictitious refugees.”

Danger, Danger, Danger, the Bolt's of the world are replicating

 


Rupert Murdoch realized this and put it into practice uniting Media Politics and Business in a way that had never been seen before. His print an  TV interests stopped printing information and news and ran commentary instead. He spawned the O'Riellys, Bolts, Devines, Hendersons, and other of this world and left news for the Internet. The governments today are trying to formulate security laws to shut down the real news such as Wikileaks. Real journalists will no longer be able to protect their sources under threat of jail. The cartel of Media Politics and Business is just consolidating.