Thanks for explaining, sorry that I was rude, I just assumed it was a comment replying to a headline.
And you’re absolutely right that most of the news stations are promoting ONP. They also manufacture outrage events like “Pauline talks to [controversial person] in a podcast”. There is institutional media bias and the article barely even mentioned it: “The review pointed to “minimal media oxygen” and a fragmented audience as barriers to getting their message across.”, that’s the only time they even glanced at the mass media situation.
What can people do to counter this? It seems to me like the most effective approach is to bring people away from Murdoch/Silicon Valley/etc. mass media, or at least to inoculate them against the ads and bleaching that ultraweathy-owned media will push. It might be easier for centrists with progressive interests (e.g. queer folk might be interested in queer publications, environmentalists might be interested in pro-environmental media outlets) but for the bulk of people, it seems ABC and The Guardian might be the most acceptable mainstream publications.
Perhaps it could be useful to have some infographic resources to illustrate just how biased each of the right-leaning resources are. Not just some ‘biaschecker.com’ thing, but specific examples and statistics showing those advertisments. I wonder if the ABC Media Watch has done something like that…
Thanks for explaining, sorry that I was rude, I just assumed it was a comment replying to a headline.
And you’re absolutely right that most of the news stations are promoting ONP. They also manufacture outrage events like “Pauline talks to [controversial person] in a podcast”. There is institutional media bias and the article barely even mentioned it: “The review pointed to “minimal media oxygen” and a fragmented audience as barriers to getting their message across.”, that’s the only time they even glanced at the mass media situation.
What can people do to counter this? It seems to me like the most effective approach is to bring people away from Murdoch/Silicon Valley/etc. mass media, or at least to inoculate them against the ads and bleaching that ultraweathy-owned media will push. It might be easier for centrists with progressive interests (e.g. queer folk might be interested in queer publications, environmentalists might be interested in pro-environmental media outlets) but for the bulk of people, it seems ABC and The Guardian might be the most acceptable mainstream publications.
Perhaps it could be useful to have some infographic resources to illustrate just how biased each of the right-leaning resources are. Not just some ‘biaschecker.com’ thing, but specific examples and statistics showing those advertisments. I wonder if the ABC Media Watch has done something like that…