For most of the Murdoch media, running a No campaign explicitly or by the “balance” subterfuge was a foregone conclusion given their political and social alignment with the Liberal and National parties, which in turn were always going to oppose the Voice.
The balance question also features in media that don’t operate as a political party, to use Malcolm Turnbull’s description of News Corp.
“Meanwhile the Yes story has remained the same from the outset. It hasn’t changed, can’t change. You can’t invent fresh explanations of goodwill saying the same thing.”
The easy example of “balance” failure is the disproportionate coverage that has tended to be given to Indigenous No campaigners when the overwhelming majority of Indigenous Australians are in the Yes camp…
The absurdity of the MAGA-like fear-and-loathing tribe preaching American-style reverence for the constitution is clear to anyone who has basic knowledge of our constitution. It borrows ideas from the US constitution but is a very different animal.
Master of basic knowledge Pascoe is confused. Americans have amended their founding document 27 times; Australians theirs only eight times. Or, in proportional terms, 122 years after its adoption (by 1911), the American constitution had been changed 16 times. Australians are therefore twice as reverential towards the constitutional status quo as Americans.
The Yes camp has made this claim before, but haven’t presented any proof.
The Voice won’t just be “confined” just to indigenous Australians:
Mr Pascoe obviously didn’t read Mr Bramston today.
Close the Gap? No camp’s lack of vision is staggering (Oz, 3 Oct, paywalled)
I’m not a subscriber so I haven’t read Troy Bramston’s opus. But he’s pretty consistent so I don’t think I really need to.
Good to see the communist fantasist “Michael Pascoe” published in “The New Daily”.
The ‘false balance’ theory is the newest thing in left-wing talking points.
Its proponents argue that journalists should not give an equal hearing to non left-wing people, perspectives or organisations. Instead, journalists should ‘report’ the news only from the ‘true’ side of contested events. The ‘true’ side, of course, is the left-wing extremist side.
The ‘false balance’ theory is the newest thing in left-wing talking points.
That’s how “Climate Science” has always been presented.
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The Soviets were experts at ensuring the right balance was found for media coverage. The way they airbrushed Trotsky from the narrative and history of the ussr seems to be the same treatment Pascoe might mete to those inconvenient indigenes who stray from his preferred propaganda.
The disproportionate coverage of Indigenous No campaigners disturbs him.
He’d be meaning Jacinta Price, in particular.
And he can’t know that an overwhelming majority of Aboriginal people support the referendum.
It’s the “false balance” theory that’s disturbing.
‘Late change’ to Voice proposal could give Commonwealth powers to legislate
Alarming, I note the big news of the day appears to be an obviously fake masked nut job threatening Lydia Thorpe. A professor of constitutional law exposing the actual agenda, well nothing to see here.
Indigenous Doctors Will Treat You
‘Reeks of desperation’: Yes camp caught deliberately covering No side’s signage
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/reeks-of-desperation-yes-camp-caught-deliberately-covering-no-side-s-signage/ar-AA1hFNQu?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=abc9079c8aac4e3499ab1f3ce63eac1b&ei=12
I say YES! … to NO.
The other false statement from the Yes camp – the one that is for racially segregating Australians and affording different privileges on that basis – is that ‘There is no Plan B’.
Am I the only one who thinks that Plan B would obviously be to legislate whatever this ‘Voice’ is in to existence and see how it works out, whilst still retaining the ability to shut it down if it fails and/or achieves its aims and in no longer needed?
There are many obvious plan Bs, Winston, that is probably the most logical, however, they’ve kind of ruled that out.
What is obvious, is how much the Yessers have been prepared to shill for obvious lies and cover them by accusing their opponents of misinformation. That largely hasn’t worked because most of the narrative is Yes malarky opposed by statements from Yes proponents from before the campaign that put a fly in the ointment.
Vasco Da Garma with his eye on the ball
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/sports-nut-anthony-albanese-drops-the-ball-at-charity-cricket-game/video/a7af250a9a94d635a4245ca5c84a6c63