How the 'reality-distorting machinery' of the federal election campaign delivered sub-par journalism
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years.
Given that about 61% of Australians get their news from television in an average week, this matters.
The pattern was set early on: unimaginative, slavish PR-stunt footage of the leaders,...