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Comment on Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner

I do have to question if that is giving her more attention, eg. “interrupted by protest banner” vs “Pauline Hanson’s press club address” really what we want?

PHON is not a problem that can just be ignored, considering that capitalist mass media is constantly promoting her and the party is regularly claiming polls and some election results of >20%. We are past the era of denying attention. If we’re lucky, we’re still in the era of education and inoculation against their propaganda.

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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

considering that capitalist mass media is constantly promoting her

Where are you seeing promotion from the mass media? Not just like reporting on what she says but actually promoting her

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- auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Gina rinehart literally bought 10% of Channel 7. Thats why it feels like every 2 posts is a “pauline is great” post on facebook
  
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  - Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Facebook has been cooker island for years now, I was sad that under 16’s got banned from Facebook but over 65’s didn’t get the same treatment
    
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    Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    This is what I’m really worried about. The Facebook feed is seriously a never ending stream of concentrated propaganda. I know my mum and one of my siblings are both slurping it up on the daily and it’s making them crazy, and they’re far from unusual cases.
    
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- eureka@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fair call, promotion wasn’t the best word. What I meant to say was, they give her airtime without criticism - I’d say that’s a form of support, for a similar reason to your concern about giving her attention. Even if we’re talking about cases where the reporting is neutral, factual and with minimal bias, it’s still selected and reported on regularly, and that shapes the worldview of the audience, especially if the heavily-flawed ideas Hanson espouses aren’t addressed in the reporting. Repeating their messages verbatim through a megaphone is spreading their ideas - outlets almost never do the same with open neo-Nazis’ speeches, for obvious reasons.
  
  And as is common knowledge, there are additionally some mass media favourably promoting PHON, like Sky News.
  
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  - Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    This was a press club address like no other. Lengthy, fiery, action-packed. Now even the police have been called in.
    
    One Nation would be thrilled with the attention.
    
    www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/…/106809434
    
    :(
    
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    eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    And to emphasise my perspective, it’s harmful to supply “airtime without criticism” - that stunt drew attention to a sharp critique. It hijacked what would have otherwise been a notable occasion regardless.
    
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  - Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    like Sky News, who have already called this event a “failed stunt” (lol)
    
    That’s kind of what I’m a bit worried about, they will use this to fuel the war they think they’re having
    
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