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Comment by DavidSJ | Hacker News Reader

> a particular media company that currently dominates the media landscape here

What is this company, out of curiosity? My guess is ABC, but I don't know.

No, it's newscorp. They have a 55%ish(?) readership share for print media in Australia and are very cosy with the incumbent government. Afaik it's one of the most concentrated markets in the world. (Behind Egypt and China I believe).

I'm not sure the exact online share.

It's only a cosy relationship with the incumbent government if said government does what it's told.

Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull are examples of what happens when you try and dictate terms with NewCorp and they turn on you with negative press.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/18/kevin-rudd-and...

As others have started, when looking at events in Australia, you can consider the currently-governing Liberal party (economically liberal, socially conservative) and News Corp as effectively the same organisation.

On the other hand, the Liberal party is very hostile to the public service in general and the ABC in particular.

They should be hostile to the ABC, because their journalistic standards are terrible. I've reported 3 factual inaccuracies to them and all of them took more than a month to retract. In one case, the inaccuracy affected the entire premise of the article.

ABC's standards are that it's okay to lie as long as you retract it a month later in a tiny 10pt foot note.

On the other hand, I've personally reported a similar article inaccuracy to a News Corp writer and he replied in 10 minutes, issuing a retraction.

Similarly, I reported an article inaccuracy in a Fairfax website and they retracted in less than 2 days. No reply but as long as it's corrected I don't mind.

SBS is even worse, they actually have zero accountability for online operations.

You clearly don’t watch media watch.

What are these supposed inaccuracies??

I've had retractions printed in nearly every Australian news website, and among the 3 times I've contacted the ABC about inaccurate reporting the average response time is 1.5 months. 100% of my reports resulted in retractions (extremely delayed ones).

This is not an organisation that cares about journalistic integrity. In fact they actively eschew ethics while their private sector counterparts reply in 1/50th the time or less.

Also, you're using an ABC-produced show as evidence that the ABC isn't ethically compromised? "We investigated ourselves and found we we did nothing wrong"?

Before you accuse me of being a shill, remember I've had retractions printed in News Corp outlets, too.

Murdoch’s News Corp.

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