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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
How the 'reality-distorting machinery' of the federal election campaign delivered sub-par journalismWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

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,...

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