Subj : Bad reporting
To : BORAXMAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 10:02 am
> I'm shocked, well, I shouldn't be shocked, but I still am, as to how many
> articles are quite literally just based on a few tweets or a TikTok.
> news.com.au is bad for this. They will find a TikTok video by a woman (its
> always a woman, usually white and young), and make a story about it. She migh
> be surprised by something in Australia, or say something controversial like
> Marmite is better than Vegemite and it gets spun into an entire STORY about ho
> "the internet is divided". The other trick is to say there is a controversy
> about something, and the controversy consists of 10 tweets. Fake news.
> Literally fake news.
There is a lot of "controversy" that consists of "mean tweets" or other
social media verbal vomit that gets spun into news here, too. Some dead
horses that started as actual news but have been beat to death also fill
the slower news days.
> The "racist rants" one are again fake news. The thing is, that journalists sa
> they need to gatekeep the news, determine what is actually news and what isn't
> But if this is what passes as "news", I don't trust their gatekeeping at all.
Agreed. They report them as news to stir up division, which is good for
ratings.
> There really isn't any news. It's clickbait, and as you said, just opinion
> pieces. "Articles" which is just some journalists wanting to make a moral
> point. One major story going round Melbourne, is Andrew Thornton. He was the
> CEO of a football club, and was basically made to resign after controversy.
> The story is still going after one week. The controversy? He attended a
> church 10 years ago, where a pastor today takes a more, biblical, stance on
> abortion and homosexuality. Thats the story!
That is not even a reason to resign, much less for a controversy or a spot
in the news cycle.
