DeAnna Lorraine and Australian TV

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DeAnne Lorraine is a US conspiracy theorist whack job who is a self proclaimed anti-establishment, anti-mask and anti-lockdown person.
She is a failed political candidate who got 1.8% vote in a congressional primary.
She thinks the snake on the WHO icon is a symbolic representation of the evil Biblical serpent, in her ignorance not knowing that it is a symbol of healing from ancient times to present.

She was invited to speak on an Australian breakfast show where she put forward her conspiracy theory that Covid-19 is a 'planned event' of a new world order, and that the lockdown in Australia is a violation of 'freedom'.
After two minutes of her lunacy the hosts realized that they had made a big mistake and cut her off.

She then went on her own social media to complain about the violation of her free speech.
Being given the privilege to talk on TV and then being blocked is not free speech violation; she abused the privilege by spouting untruths.
It is not discrimination to not allow unpaid speech on a commercial TV channel.
Incidentally Sky News, the radical right wing channel partly owned by Rupert Murdoch then came to her rescue by offering their services to her.

Further details can be viewed on this video of the most recent episode of Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Media Watch:
Media Watch

 

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DeAnna Lorraine isn't some shocking lurch into far right extremism, it's normal broadcasting.

The Today Show has been giving right wing nutjobs a platform for a long time now. Pauline Hanson has enjoyed a regular spot on the show for a while, and that was only ended recently because she said something a little too extreme. (Media Watch covers that too.)

There's a pattern across Australian media where producers/editors invite experts to give their informed opinion on a subject, and then to give "balance" they will invite an anti-science, anti-facts hard right provocateur to spout their crazy talking points. On topics as diverse as the pandemic, economic management or climate science, we've settled into a convention where experts are representing progressive politics, and absolute fuckwits are representing conservative politics. The experts are optional.

Media Watch's back catalogue is rife with examples of Australian media bias and general lack of standards.

 

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DeAnna Lorraine isn't some shocking lurch into far right extremism, it's normal broadcasting.

The Today Show has been giving right wing nutjobs a platform for a long time now. Pauline Hanson has enjoyed a regular spot on the show for a while, and that was only ended recently because she said something a little too extreme. (Media Watch covers that too.)

There's a pattern across Australian media where producers/editors invite experts to give their informed opinion on a subject, and then to give "balance" they will invite an anti-science, anti-facts hard right provocateur to spout their crazy talking points. On topics as diverse as the pandemic, economic management or climate science, we've settled into a convention where experts are representing progressive politics, and absolute fuckwits are representing conservative politics. The experts are optional.

Media Watch's back catalogue is rife with examples of Australian media bias and general lack of standards.

You pay attention to breakfast TV in Australia?

 

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DeAnna Lorraine isn't some shocking lurch into far right extremism, it's normal broadcasting.

The Today Show has been giving right wing nutjobs a platform for a long time now. Pauline Hanson has enjoyed a regular spot on the show for a while, and that was only ended recently because she said something a little too extreme. (Media Watch covers that too.)

There's a pattern across Australian media where producers/editors invite experts to give their informed opinion on a subject, and then to give "balance" they will invite an anti-science, anti-facts hard right provocateur to spout their crazy talking points. On topics as diverse as the pandemic, economic management or climate science, we've settled into a convention where experts are representing progressive politics, and absolute fuckwits are representing conservative politics. The experts are optional.

Media Watch's back catalogue is rife with examples of Australian media bias and general lack of standards.

You pay attention to breakfast TV in Australia?

LOL, only enough to keep tabs on it. Same with the rest of the media. Popular opinion is easier to understand if you know where it's coming from. Some of the things people commonly believe are absolutely baffling unless you're aware of the source.

 

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Right wing editorial bias in action:

This is what Murdoch said re our govt when debt was $174 billion & deficit was $30 billion after the GFC. This is what Murdoch said yesterday with Lib debt reaching $850 billion - 5 times bigger than ours; & Lib deficit at $184 billion - 6 times ours. #MorrisonsGiantDebtCon

https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1286934219860500480

The Murdoch media (70% of Australia's media) has been pushing this big lie about debt and deficit for decades.

Deficit spending was sound economic policy following the global financial crisis, and deficit spending is sound economic policy during the pandemic. But the Murdoch media has had a change of heart that, strangely, coincides with a change in government.

Certainly Mathias Cormann is not worried about [the deficit].

He replied to one journalist when asked about debt: “What is the alternative? Are you suggesting that we should not have provided the support we did to boost our health system, to protect jobs, to protect livelihoods? I mean, in the circumstances what was the alternative.”

It is an excellent point, and one dripping with as much hypocrisy as any statement that has ever been uttered by a finance minister in our history.

It is exactly the same reasoning that was behind the stimulus undertaken by the Labor government during the GFC.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ents-hypocrisy-on-debt-and-deficit-is-galling