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Victoria Fielding Profile picture
@DrVicFielding
Nov 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
📍I'm pleased to announce the Murdoch Referendum Accountability Project final report is now available to download here📍

Here is a short thread summarising the key findings 👇🏻 murdochroyalcommission.org.au/final-report/
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The title of the report gives quite the insight:
👉🏻Under the Facade of Journalism: How News Corp used fear, manipulation and division to campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament👈🏻
Key findings:
1) News Corp’s coverage of the Voice constituted an overt political campaign in favour of a ‘No’ vote.

2) The most frequently used ‘No’ arguments from News Corp were consistent with those of the official ‘No’ campaign.
3) News Corp’s coverage played a singular role in the broader anti-Voice misinformation ecosystem, with Sky News being responsible for the most egregious examples.
4) News Corp’s Voice coverage was extremely biased in favour of the ‘No’ campaign and this was especially egregious on Sky News and in the tabloid papers.
5) News Corp’s anti-Voice campaign appeared to have dual agendas: defeating the Voice at the referendum and using this defeat to undermine Anthony Albanese’s Prime Ministership.
What I would like people to take away from this research is that right-wing bias (in this case towards 'No' campaign) is just one part of News Corp problem. The media organisation is a campaign platform for political fear campaigns, often using manipulated information and hate.
To say this is bad for democracy is an understatement. In a nutshell, Australia's largest news media organisation is using the cover of 'news' to intervene in democracy as a campaign machine for right wing groups and causes. How long are Australians going to put up with this?
Please download the report and share widely. I promised to hang around on Twitter long enough to share the outcomes of this project, so will be here for a couple more weeks before my account will go dormant. You can find me over at Threads - DrVicFielding. Thank you! 🙏🏻

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Sep 30
I’ve been monitoring News Corp’s Voice coverage so I am sadly well versed in the ‘No’ camp’s contradictions, misrepresentations and scaremongering - by both ‘No’ voices and News Corp voices. I’ll try to summarise it into one thread to give you a sense of how bad faith they are👇🏻
First is the idea that the Voice, an advisory body, can override decisions made by parliament. Bolt regularly refers to the Voice as an Aboriginal only parliament. They constantly imply the Voice has more power and can do more than give advice which is a total bald faced lie.
They also say constitutionally enshrined Voice is more powerful than legislated one. ‘No’ campaigners like Dutton and Price say they support legislated regional Voice and call constitutional Voice risky. Constitutional experts constantly say this is false but they keep saying it.
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Jan 14
I’m surprised at how few people who are watching Harry and Meghan on Netflix, or reading Spare, are discussing the big picture. Royal gossip and relationships don’t matter. What’s important is their story is about British/Commonwealth establishment fighting progress. A thread👇🏻
When Harry happened to fall in love with Meghan Markle, the royals were given an opportunity to modernise, to be progressive, to reflect a new-British culture. Meghan is self-made, successful, articulate, describes herself as an activist, is an outspoken feminist, and is biracial
Rather than see Meghan as an opportunity for the British establishment to represent a new Britain, in the midst of a country embroiled in Brexit debates, racism versus diversity, British power, particularly media power, decided Meghan was not what Britain represents.
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Dec 4, 2022
Since we can now talk about the Bruce Lehrmann trial, can I just check if anyone in their entire lives have ever heard of someone having a big night out, and then pissed, deciding to go back to the office to do some work his boss said wasn’t needed? Impossible.
Also, if he was such a gentlemen offering Brittany to share an Uber home to make sure he got her home safely, why didn’t he do that? If he seriously wants us to believe he decided to go back to work, why did he take Brittany there and not drop her home first? Beggars belief.
Furthermore, if Bruce said he was taking Brittany home, why didn’t he do that? Why did he leave her at Parliament House and was seen on security cameras jogging from the scene? Why not go back and make sure she was ok, take her home safely? Doesn’t make sense.
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Jun 10, 2022
I need to share a story about a really worrying thing I heard a journalist say, and will explain the issue. I'm going to leave names and some details out, as it's not about the specific journalists involved, it's about a wider problem in political journalism. A thread👇🏻
So in this forum, two journalists were discussing representation of women in politics. They got onto the subject of widespread public misogyny about Julia Gillard when she was PM. They discussed the fact the media didn't call it out at the time it was happening.
One of the journalists said that the press pack recognised that Gillard was experiencing this horrible thing where she was a victim of misogyny and just couldn't get any clear air as PM. They talked about how it was so obvious to journalists at the time, they discussed it openly.
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Jun 8, 2022
This piece ignores fact that if Greens forced Labor to adopt policies Labor did not take to election, Labor would be wiped out next election. Is that what Greens want? I don't recall Greens selling their massive super-profits tax during election either!
themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…
Labor does not have a mandate to introduce the Greens’ policy platform. If you would like to argue otherwise fine, but please stick to this topic. The electorate would crucify Labor if they sprung Greens’ policies on them - how is that good for long term reform?
The Greens won three additional seats VERY NARROWLY to bring their total to 4. Labor won 77. Let’s use that as a frame for who has a mandate and who doesn’t please.
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May 26, 2022
I am sick to death of powerful people like Dutton and many journalists calling Twitter a ‘sewer’. You might not agree with us, but show some respect! Isn’t it funny how they seem to think they can denigrate us through name calling, but we’re not allowed to call them names!
A man who says this of his political opposition is not fit to serve as leader of a party. He’s not fit to represent the people who he calls names! Why is this behaviour excused by journalists? Why is Dutton allowed to be as rude as he likes to us, but we can’t complain? Power.
The good people of Twitter have shown that we are far more in touch with the concerns of voters across Australia than the mainstream news media, and the likes of Dutton. So how dare we get called a sewer. We’re constantly told to shut up and just let them rule without pushback.
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