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• Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I suppose I’m guilty of a lack of awareness regarding my own habits. I listen to longer form, discussion style podcasts about complex issues and I follow the ABC’s coverage of Australian politics reasonably closely. Maybe this is having a bigger impact on my understanding of current affairs than I thought, which is why the (I assume) majority who don’t have these habits are now in a completely different world to me.

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• blind3rdeye@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I agree with that.

  Many years ago, I had a paper subscription to both The Age and The Australian; and both were respectable publications at the time… Whereas now neither of them are. There is still good journalism happening, but it is no longer the norm. And so it isn’t as easy to consume it as a routine, or talk about it casually to people in slightly different social circles.

  I feel like almost every story is like “here is what some people with obviously vested interests say about such-and-such”. Or the other flavour of story which is basically “shit’s fucked. It sucks, right?” For politics in particular, I see so many stories about whether some policy is popular, and again opinions from vested interests… but very little objective comparison. Like, people aren’t proposing policy changes because they are complete idiots. They have reasons. So I’d like the reporting on them to say what those reasons are, and look into whether or not the policy will meet the goals of those reasons.

  Ok. I feel like I’m whinging and being a bit vague. Like I said before, there is still some good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it. So I shouldn’t complain too much about what I see. I guess I’m just bit a worried about what everyone else sees too. Rage-bait emotional manipulation, mostly.

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    good journalism going on - and I don’t really put a lot of effort into looking for it

    So, I have a list I’ve been slowly adding to over the last few years of independent media in Australia with journalists doing good work. There might be some in this you might be interested in.

    List of independent media in Aus

    • Ette media
    • Lamestream
    • Independent aus
    • Michael west
    • Deep cut
    • Crikey
    • Urban wronsky
    • Friendly jordies
    • The shot
    • The Klaxton
    • John Menadue
    • Cheek media
    • Abby Dib
    • Declassified
    • Equator (monthly politics,culture, not sure if this fits.)
    • Inside Story
    • Mayne Report (Shareholder Activist Stephen Mayne)
    • Antonylowenstein.com (Palestine Laboratory)
    • Overland
    • Greenleft.org

    If anyone has any ideas of what I should do with a list like this, except sharing it occasionally like this, I’d interested to hear about it.

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    • No1@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No Betoota Advocate?

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      • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hmm, maybe thats an idea. I know theres a few pages that have Music Journalism publications of Australia both current and past. I found it pretty invaluable when it came to finding links for c/rage sidebar, it really helped me find a whole bunch of those links.

        Yeah, i did think about doing a satirical section, and that’d be a good section to have on a wikipedia page. It didn’t suit my purposes at the time for making the list, which is finding other independent journalistic voices apart from the mainstream to link to in Posts on Lemmy (non-mainstream social media). For me, theres a natural alliance between these two and it could be a real point of difference for Lemmy over other aocial media places like Reddit.

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