”The latest owners are keen to point the blame elsewhere — at Meta for ending payments under the news media bargaining code and at Labor for not renewing the Morrison government’s shakedown of big tech on behalf of old media.” Did they invest in a lemon?

“The new voices are bringing a different, more community-based news sense to old media’s perspective of just repeating the news that institutions give them.” Good on them!

“There’s some good news: low-scale independent papers are being tentatively published in some towns to fill the gap left by the corporate chains. (They’re tracked by the Australian News Data Project of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative.) The new voices are bringing a different, more community-based news sense to old media’s perspective of just repeating the news that institutions give them.” I presume they inadvertently gave permission for exploitation for the common good?

And the local council emails contain, at best, 5% of what the local newspapers did.
Similar to replacing the Trading Post with Amazon.

Absolutely.That happened once, to an extent.

But this government is clearly way too cowardly to provide funding for an informed public. And their legitimate half sister the coalition is no better.

If fossil fuels and ethnic cleansing is a nogo topic for the nation, why provide funding to keep locals informed of whats happening at their front door?

I know what you’re saying MJM. I tuned into Insiders for about the third time this year, and saw Speers nodding in furious agreement with Phil Coorey when Coorey suggested opinion polls showing the public oppose gambling ads is spurious, because it’s all about how you frame the question. Jesus wept. Thank heavens for Mike Bowers.

I was kinda hoping my suggestion that “an independent annual test of accuracy and fairness” would stymie the current bunch of grunts – the malignant billionaires to whom you refer – from publishing their traditional tripe … but maybe not.

Ignorance is preferable to Newscorpse lies. And looking up from your device, especially when crossing the road?

I suspect there are small facebook silos serving common interest groups, such as sporting groups, and this could possibly be expanded to be a more comprehensive community offering by amalgamation.

They have with RW MSM in the background seemingly demanding that the ABC continues its role as the ‘most trusted’ news source in the bush by avoiding contentious issues eg. global warming, climate science, immigration, indigenous etc.; see online ABC News JustIn which now resembles news com au site, but hopefully Williams can help.

As concerning and a symptom are the narratives in the bush, backgrounded by cynicism towards RW MSM, but echo same climate science denial, antipathy towards solar, wind and batteries. Also the ‘other’ especially indigenous where The Voice No campaign gave legalistic excuses not to support while most have a nuanced or no view on ‘immigration’ (maybe as local health relies on ‘immigrants’); while Sky has access to free to air in regions for more eyeballs and influence.