News in Australia is a joke.

Just observing the way the media in different countries are reporting on the candidates, it's so clear that their is a worldwide conspiracy to 'bring forward' certain candidates.

Democracy in the western world is indeed an illusion. Unfortunately, the majority have been fooled.

Well said.

Sorry about what happened to your child unfortunately it is very difficult for many people to think for themselves and question what they see and hear in the media. Television is the best brainwashing tool there is.
What makes me sickest is the news "program" on the ABC channel showing current news stories and events in a simplified format for school children. I remember seeing it one day and they were talking about 9/11 - I was so angry I wanted to punch the television.

holy shit OP, just was about to post a very similar topic.

just tonight on the 7pm project on channel ten they had a story about conspiracy theories, the conversation went along these lines

Reporter:"(lady who is expert on conspiracies), can you tell us why people belive these crazy conspiracies?

Expert: "most of the time it's because the truth is boring and people want something more exciting, do they reach out to conspiracies"

Reporter: "ok, what is your favorite theory?"

Expert: "my favorite is probably the NWO and illuminati conspiracy. The people who believe this think that a one world government controls the world, and they think that lizard people control us all.

We really are going down under.

I'm amazed that you actually 'expected' to see real news on the television or even hear it on the radio. Ninety percent of news time is taken up either by sport or a lightweight local event. I get all my real news from the internet... which doesn't include the fluffy rubbish you get on ninemsn.
As for other countries having better news. I was in the UK and Ireland last year and was amazed that their news was actually WORSE than it is here.

Who is Ron Paul?

my favorite media meme at the moment is the global economic situation. they wait for the finance section so most of us wander off and put the jug on and then lead with something like "experts today say that we are fucked.really fucked.look a kitten.

Yeah, when I make it home early, I catch some 'news' and it always seems to be some 'news story' about something that they have to promote.

E.g. Channel 9 will have 20 minutes devoted to cricket when it's on their channel and now Channel 7 have shit on about the tennis for 25 minutes.

What a fucking joke. I don't watch tv much that's how I can pick up on the ridiculous shit they pump out each evening.

This is summed up as thus:
Half hour 'news'. Minus 12 minutes for ads. Leaves 18 minutes of 'news'. Minus 2 minutes for weather, minus 4 minutes for sports (longer for major events). This leaves 12 minutes for 'news' which can be summed up as:

Opening
1 major story for 3 minutes (this is replaced by a 'major sport story' when they are screening the respective event)
A summary of the 5 car crashes that have happend on the day for 2 minutes
Some health thing for 2 minutes.
'Overseas News' for a couple minutes.
The other 2 minutes leftover is the introduction, banter and the playout.

My goodness.

Also, please confirm as I have noticed that Channel 9 now has 'breaking news' on the two nights that I caught it this week. Is this EVERY night? I feel that this is shit that they haven't had time for a full report (or just want people to glue their eyes to the tv) as one night it was a breaking report on a fire, yet they were able to say that the fire was undercontrol and that all the suvivours left the building and were taken to hospital for treatent. Um, if it was breaking news, wouldn't it slot somewhere at the beginning of the play of events?? lol

The journalism on the websites isn't any better.

Whoops, forget finance and lotto. Put that within the 2 minutes that were left over!

Right on all accords. They allow us a small timeframe to address the real issues and that window of opportunity is stained with their muck. I feel as if we are locked in a 2x2 room with a tiny little window to the outside world, except that the background behind that window is a crude wallpaper version of the truth.

Lol! I can't stand David Koch either, his voice is shocking and he must be the most boring man alive.

I quite often watch ABC News 24 and that is the most believable out of all the news presented. I often read things here regarding the Hormuz Strait and Iran, etc, and they are the only ones reporting on it!

As for bloody current affair, that has to be the most mindless bit of TV.

The 7pm Report is a bit of fluff but at least you get a laugh when you watch it.

A member of my family is a manager at a commercial channel, and you know what? He knows what's happening in the world, but as long as he gets his 6 figure salary, he doesn't give a shit , best way to deal with them, boycott their channels, complain to their advertisers, that will hit them where it hurts, right in the pocket.

Maybe we should begin a campaign to bombard their FB pages with 'our' theories.

So many of us Americans would give an arm and a leg to live in Australia, so stop whining. Your immigration laws are very restrictive, so moving there isn't an option for most.

The Chasers summed it up best:

SHOCKING! con-man builder who’s kitchen germs are making our kids obese. Now he wants welfare. Plus! Fat kids ripping off the system, first they spread kitchen germs, now they’re Lebanese. And the miracle diet that’s turning our fat kids into dole-cheats and why these Lebanese builders dont want to know. A shocking story no parent can afford to miss!

I think that most of the ACs on here are from msm. Where else do they get their real news!

Too fucking right mate

Interesting they had Jeb Bush in there, 2016 is his turn, teaming up with the immortal Dick Cheney after Obama gets re-elected this year.

news in australia is a joke. especially the more 'awake' one is...

the other day i heard about a boat crash on the swan river. at first i thought, 'how sad'. but then i soon thought, 'why the hell do we need to know about it?'

this is not in any way trying to offend the families of victims on news bulletins. its just my opinion that we do not need to know how many people died on the roads this weekend. it is not a necessary piece of data that i need to know.

why not do a story on the 'sun dog' that was out that same day in perth. there was a beautiful full circle halo around the sun which is usually a sign that severe weather is on its way. and severe it was! beats hearing about people killing themselves.

It sounds to me like Australia is just as screwed up as everywhere else.

I like the fact that msm thought that it was important to let us know that Oprah thought that Obamy could win the next election, all the way from India no less!

OP eats babies

traded his sock australian account in 2012 for korean and kiwi IPs in 2013

Australians are lucky. You could be living in Merica.