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Queen Victoria
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More asylum seekers arrived by plane under Liberal govt in 2017/18 than highest number that arrived under Labor by boat in 2012/13.

Question: how well have media done their job in reporting these basic facts?
This expert analysis by @quaedvliegs contradicts taken-for-granted media narrative that Liberals have ‘secured the borders’ and therefore blows Liberals’ over-amped AS rhetoric out of the water. I’m sure many won’t let these pesky facts get in the way of a good story nevertheless
This is the perfect example of what I found in my research - that narratives overwhelm concern for fact. The media narrative of ‘Liberals better on national security’ has overtaken journalists concern for ACTUALLY FINDING OUT THE TRUTH. So disappointing.
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⚠️ Morrison’s Liberals are starting a war on facts over the impact of medevac bill on return of people smugglers ⚠️
How will journos cover these lies? How should we respond?
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This exchange between @murpharoo and @ScottMorrisonMP is the foundation of Liberals’ rhetoric strategy in response to medevac bill passing.
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Queen Victoria
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There is class snobbery on twitter. Those inside the bubble look down their nose at us outsiders - call us names like trolls, haters, brokens - basically implying we have no right to an opinion on politics and we don’t know what we’re taking about. A thread.
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We don’t know O’Dwyer personally because we’re not in the bubble. So this is just another way of saying ‘you don’t understand politics because you’re not in the bubble’.
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Queen Victoria
@Vic_Rollison
The templated @abcnews reporting of ‘right wing activists’ ‘clashing’ with ‘African youths’ is a perfect example of how lazy journalism distorts reality and therefore fails in the basic requirement of news media to report accurately for the public good. A thread.
This article actually doesn’t do a bad job of describing what happened at St Kilda. However the repeated use of the word ‘activists’ leads the reader to think the racists have some legitimate cause they are promoting when really they’re inciting race hate
abc.net.au/news/2018-12-2…
The tweet/headline which frames the main news is awful. This gives a false equivalency to two equally responsible groups for ‘clashing’ - suggesting African youths are just as much to blame as the ‘activists’ campaigning against the Africans’ existence.
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