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Bad News

OurSay gave the public a chance to ask questions to a panel of experts Tim Soutphommasane, Anna Krien & Margaret Simons around the release of new Quartlety Essay “Bad News” by Robert Manne. The top question asker got to have coffee with Robert Manne.

OurSay gave the public a chance to ask questions to a panel of experts Tim Soutphommasane, Anna Krien & Margaret Simons around the release of new Quartlety Essay “Bad News” by Robert Manne. The top question asker got to have coffee with Robert Manne.

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“The media is a powerful tool in our society's way of understanding the world around us. This places media companies in a particularly powerful position. Companies have also grown progressively larger over the past 60 years and as technology has...”

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user picture Nick Wallis · 20 votes · 13 comments · 2 years ago

“Ultimately, what is to be done? Is there any better, more practical solution than readers and advertisers voting with their dollars?”

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user picture Mark Duffett · 17 votes · 12 comments · 2 years ago

“In the last financial year Fairfax reported a loss of $401 million which adds to what appears to be a long decline in the profitability and sustainability of the only real print competitor to News Ltd. Considering the fact that the only other...”

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user picture Will Ziebell · 46 votes · 9 comments · 2 years ago

“Given that in Australia there is freedom of expression and he (Rupert Murdoch) pays the piper and calls the tune, there is little one can do directly to change The Australian’s agenda. It will probably continue to support big business, champion...”

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user picture Sarah Biron · 10 votes · 5 comments · 2 years ago

“What is your most dangerous idea to fix the broken media cycle in Australia?”

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user picture Bob Anderson · 4 votes · 3 comments · 2 years ago

“Why not enhance the ABC's Charter to include production and distribution of a newspaper? It would allow us to read the full reports of the ABC's worldwide reporters' strength. I think it should be almost free of advertising, except for ABC shop and...”

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user picture Geoff Pain · 93 votes · 3 comments · 2 years ago

“Robert Manne has been shown many times to be either very loose with his facts or seriously mis informed with his writing. The reason why Fairfax is going broke and that the News LTD papers are not is because of all the left wing nonsense by people...”

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user picture Cameron Hoare · 76 votes · 2 comments · 2 years ago

“Isn´t the overarching problem that people actually believe the crap they read? What can we do in terms of education to make people more critical of the media, to see through the spin and use logic and reason to realise, for example, that climate...”

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user picture Matthew Herring · 8 votes · 2 comments · 2 years ago

“Why do people like Robert Manne consider themselves to be morally superior to the rest of us non-intellectuals? Would it be against the law to pour hot coffee over the self righteous hypocrite? If not I would love to have a coffee with him.”

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user picture Wayne Hutchins · 77 votes · 1 comments · 2 years ago

“I agree with many of the statements posted by others regarding the inordinate power that the Murdoch empire has over our news. But, do you not think that there is an even greater danger in allowing politicians to interfere with what can and can't be...”

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user picture John Clayton · 26 votes · 0 comments · 2 years ago
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