To the average punter the debate on media ownership takes little or no interest to many.Channel 10’s demise and pending purchase and the ideological and financial attacks on the worth and content of our ABC network is swinging the media menu in Australia more towards network ownership controlled by billionaires.
That’s fine if journalists are allowed to follow their oath to balance,truth, and fact, and encouraged to write accordingly.
My concern is that oath is not being respected by the owners and pressure is exerted to support the owners views over the code of ethical journalism.
If we want our country’s media to be independent the laws governing media ownership are vitally important, and we the punters deserve factual news, true investigative journalism without bias, or we will go down the road of America and get only the extremes on either side dominating and our news becomes properganda.
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