No wonder we get corrupt cowardly governments, that are craven to big business and mining interests, with the kind of Newspaper Editors we have in Australia. What is your price,
Judy Whelan, editor of SMH? What is your price Chris Dore, for the Daily Telegraph? You get to keep your jobs and lives? Your shoddy journalism is not fit to read.
Its going to be an election campaign of dumbed down media, who will cover moronic posturing by insincere politicians, as the bitchy squabbles between the ALP and LNP as to who has the best make-up on becomes the centre of media attention. Its a face-off on the front pages of newspapers and television from the start. Malcolm Turnbull The interviewees babble all sorts of nonsense, particularly on economic arguments. They fulfill a famous quote from John Kenneth Galbraith "the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable". ALP and LNP politicians love talking about economics and money. They both have similar effects on the minds of bamboozled voters, and result in a random confusion which leaves about 50% of the polls falling to one party or the another. Its really that hard to see the difference, might as well toss a coin.
The older newspapers in Australia, are fully content controlled by their big business masters and owners, which puts the LNP , ALP and big business media all in the same corruptedly owned club. Since only both big business parties are presented at the beginning of the Australian Federal government election campaigns. I guess big business does not really care which party wins, as long as they continue to take the big donations and directions.
Obviously Fairfax doesn't need real journalists, it just needs profits bias and news make-up as good as News Limited. Fairfax just sacked a large bunch of its journos, poor things. They won't be needed for the make-up news in an election campaign.
Its supposedly a day after the 2016 Australian Federal Election has been called. Both newspapers have pages of coverage and photo portraits for the "Business profits" parties of the ALP and LNP, and comparisons of their leaders. This is standard for "business democracy" today. From the print commentary, it seems the ALP and Bill Shorten has the better publicity "make-up" of the two at the moment.
According the editorial in the "The Telegraph" editorial 9th May, 2016, the Australia people have "moved on" from Climate Change. In these supposedly competing news media productions of Fairfax and News Limited, from this days coverage, there is no indication that the Australia Greens party ever existed, had policies, influence or taken part in government, or had significant support from voters. Bill Shortens party was fully credited with the carbon tax, that has been abolished. Apparently the Australian Greens didn't exist then either.
Climate change is accelarating rapidly, if some of the media have noticed, and will sink our economy with gruesome finality soon enough. If anybody is noticing the general economic sinking trend, the ALP and LNP are only arguing about bit of economic cost can be jettisoned from the ship of state next, as bits of health, education, investment, arts, public services, unemployment support, are all get hacked off and dumped. It doesn't matter which mining party you vote for, the mining subsidies will be the last to go. The ALP and LNP take large amounts of donations from the same paymasters, which are a tiny fraction of the public tax and kind subsidy that should be government income instead. The Australian public are being royally screwed by the mining corporations.
Excessive consumption of non-renewable minerals and energy always had to end, and now it is ending. With exponential growth, and best resources taken first, the easy to get stuff is nearly all gone. Extraction costs are rising faster. Global economic decline has to be the end result. Ditto for climate change. That is the unhappy ending of the story that no one wants to hear or tell. After the brief Anthropocene, leading to a Capitalocene where we were masters of destruction, we will be subject to the Cthulhucene, a rather pitiless but still cooperative and symbiotic world, in which we humans are not and never have been the central players.
Richard Di Natale as leader of the Australian Greens, managed to get one sentence in the SMH editorial, noted to be a "moderate" Green. Business interests so scared that people might see a photo of him on same pages as "mining approved" party leaders. No doubt the mining media will soon get on with their destruction agenda and come out with the most childish and disrespectful smearing of all Greens politicians.
The Fairfax and Murdoch Media, are indistinguishable, both owned and directed by vested business interests. Today they contribute only to the general demise and corruption of politics in Australia. I hope they get out of working for big business profiteers and big money really soon. Media is all about restrictive framing by vested interests, rather than big picture.
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