media
This is a tag about the media – news websites, TV stations, newspapers, etc. Commercial media outlets are businesses, just like any other business under capitalism, and thus tend to be beholden to bourgeois corporate boards and those moneyed interests willing to buy advertising space from them. This doesn’t discredit everything they do, but it does reveal some of their limitations (and a lot of my posts with this tag will be on that topic). It’s so important to also have independent media outlets, be they public (like our ABC) or community-based publications.
Posts
- : 🇦🇺 Micro post: Wow, they’ve gone and done it. While Google has tried to reach a compromise with commercial news outlets, Facebook …
- : 🇦🇺 On the AusGov vs Google/FB Stoush: So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill (external link) requiring Google and Facebook to pay money to …
- : 🇦🇺 Micro post: For anyone out there who was following the saga: the Australian government has indeed backed down (external link) …
Links
- : 📰 Link: “Massive Texas gas failure during climate extremes gets blamed on wind power” by Ketan Joshi
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Sky News Australia is tapping into the global conspiracy set – and it’s paying off”
- : 🇵🇸 Link: “On Palestine, the Media Is Allergic to the Truth”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Emily Wilder’s Firing Is No Surprise: AP Has Always Been Right-Wing”
- : 🏟 Link: “We’re not the good guys: Osaka shows up problems of press conferences”
- : 📰 Link: “The media frames the climate crisis as hopeless – but that’s because they’re hiding the solutions”
- : 📰 Link: “The Debris Shovellers” by Ben Jenkins
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Allow yourself to dream, Australia. Morrison may be at his end”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “In Australia’s Election, Rupert Murdoch Was a Surprise Loser”
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.