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.
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
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
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.