News Corp's unethical support for the fossil fuel industry is propaganda dressed as news and requires some kind of regulation.

LAST WEEK, News Corp’s newspapers The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier Mail and The Adelaide Advertiser caused controversy by publishing front page “exclusives” and “special reports” alleging that more gas is needed to avoid electricity blackouts in the future.

If readers turned the page and read the fine print, they would learn that this so-called “news” was actually not news. It was an advertorial (a fancy word for an advertisement), paid for by – you guessed it – the fossil fuel industry.

  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    14 days ago

    education system to teach all kids (because we no longer go to school ourselves)

    Why should we abandon the vast majority of our population, just because we’re not forced to attend school? Education isn’t limited to the classroom!

    As with any issue of survival, the application of effective skills are worthy solutions to the problems we face.

    It’s less a solution and more a coping mechanism. I am in support of promoting these skills, but I’m also in strong support of mitigating the commecialisation of news media as much as possible. And that includes outlawing these kind of articles.