If I’m wrong on that I apologise. But I got a notification to this chat which I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
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Just to clarify the post was originally made to the “TV Blackbox Awards” thread. Possibly you might have had watching/tracking on that thread to alert you to any new posts?
I moved it to this thread.
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I have looked at Rob’s promo for his Craig McLachlan interview and the commentary in it is fair and balanced. I look forward to seeing the whole interview.
Rob’s assertions about commercial TV journalism are correct as well: Aside from the ABC that seems to like employing obvious left wing activists as journalists, Commercial TV has a real problem too - the only entry pathway into journalism as a career is 3 years at Uni listening to Karen and her failed journalists turned academic friends professing the efficacy of left wing ideology and adding welcome to country to all your assignments or you will fail.
We really need to bring back journalism cadetships and have some way those who complete them can get a portable recognised qualification in the process. The University journalism training system is beyond repair.
Most younger Aussies don’t get their news from flogged out FTA TV stations anymore and it just doesn’t have to be that way.
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This is bullshit
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Exactly… the Blackbox article is also bullshit! Channel 7 and 9 news are propaganda for the LNP!
Not sure I’d agree that commercial TV journalists are a bunch of rabid lefties. Far from it.
And even with ABC, it seems to attract plenty of criticism from both sides. It’s either a Murdoch echo chamber or it’s full of greenies/lefties, which probably indicates it sits somewhere in the middle. As it should.
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I have never seen any LNP propaganda on 7 or 9 - 9 are more balanced than 7 and that’s possibly because the owner at 7 doesn’t get involved in editorial decisions.
Anyone who claims that a Unionised journalist workforce will not skew left is living in fantasy land - Sky is more balanced than any of them and that’s perhaps because Newscorp management do monitor editorial decisions.
3 years of Wokery and PC at Uni does not produce a balanced journalist - any balanced journalists that were trained that way would have unlearned some of the stuff they were taught at Uni.
Sorry but this is just another load of bullshit. Which LNP branch do you belong to? Anyone who thinks Sky is balanced is seriously deluded.
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Not a member of the LNP and never have been. Are you able to articulate any reasons why Rob’s article and Promo are biased?? That would be the difference between you discussing and trolling.
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I have seen first-hand left leaning producers pull information out of stories because it didn’t suit their politics.
I know that guests won’t be booked on certain shows because younger producers doing the booking don’t believe people with different opinions should be platformed.
I love it when I’m told what I’m saying is bullshit despite the fact I have been in the room where it happens
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Same here I have a background in commercial TV and radio - where owners/managers do not monitor editorial decisions then the personal views of senior staff are what is aired. Sometimes it is not unreasonable for a CEO or owner to pick up the phone and have a word with a producer and journalist.
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Ok, have you ever witnessed right wing bias at all? Or just left wing. To the person calling me a troll, I’ve been a member of this forum for a number of years and am entitled to state my opinion. How many years have you been a member? To both of you please check the real meaning of the word woke.
TV - no, radio - yes (due to the nature of talkback radio).
While it should be assumed a lot of people in executive ranks in TV are right-leaning, their editorial bias has not been pushed as a narrative (that I have seen). Of course we saw Nine holding an LNP fundraiser which was not a good look a few years ago.
Re the word ‘woke’, I think it has to be accepted the original meaning of the word has changed, as language tends to do.
The reason for that change - and why it is now seen as a negative thing - is because the social awareness that was ‘wokeness’ went too far and became a weapon used against people who thought differently, who didn’t share the exact same views on every progressive issue.
That’s why woke evokes a meaning of far-left leaning, cancel culture, silence anyone who doesn’t think like us.
It’s lost it’s original identity.
Woke has only lost it’s original meaning because of the way right wingers choose to bastardise it’s use. I am proud to be woke and I will call out those I disagree with but will NOT attempt to stop them having their views. Iwonder if not being woke allows the surge of hate towards people who are somehow seen as different by ultra right wingers and right wingers who believe their views are right, e.g against trans persons, different nationalities etc.
Indeed you are and glad to see you are expressing it with your last post.
Responses like Bulls..t, garbage, your an idiot etc are of course high risk for people like Chinese Wumaos and Russian and North Korean foreign interference trolls and I have been absolutely conned in to interacting with them in the past. They often use those type of responses because they can’t actually speak English or are BOTs.
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There is nothing wrong with calling out people you disagree with - it’s only when you try to silence them (which it seems like you don’t do judging by your comment).
I am concerned about extremism on both sides of politics - it’s dangerous.
as I said, I am a centrist who will support/condemn both sides of the political spectrum based on the topic.
righto thats enough - either get back on topic or we’ll have to let things cool off.
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Over the years, on and off there has been talks of an ABC/SBS merger
Has there been any recent speculation?
Without losing available content, it is a plausible idea and would it bring any benefits other than obviously cost-cutting for the government of the day?
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I’m honestly not sure how much would be saved from the merger. some roles could be eliminated from the broadcasting side, and you could potentially down the track combine studios, but they are different beats. SBS already runs pretty lean anyway so i’m not sure the capex of doing this is worth it
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It also tends to be political poison as well. Would be a very brave or foolish government to go through with it.