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Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by neumann on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:18AM (#24183918)
There is no Fairfax since 2018, and even then Gina Reinhart owned 20% then. Now, it's channel 9, and having Peter Costello at the helm. So... Yeah, we don't really have a balanced or neutral media landscape. The ABC, The Guardian and a small selection of boutique papers and websites are alone in putting journalism before explicit political narratives now. And well, even the first two in that list heavily rely on clickbait and lazy opinion pieces to pad of the content.
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by BLKNSLVR on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:28AM (#24183991)
I feel obliged to mention Crikey here, mainly because it's quite low-key but deserving of wider readership.
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by stirlo on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:53AM (#24184121)
Fairfax still produces daily newspapers with a large readership in Australia's 2 largest cities. To say they don't exist just because their ownership changed is a misnomer.
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by spacehunt on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:16AM (#24184215)
There's been a very noticeable drop in quality in The Age's reporting though. And then there was this back in June:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/14/journalists-at...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/18/age-editor-ale...