You Cannot Trust Right Wing Media

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The recent popularity of right wing media in Australia and the United States has seen the emergence of new platforms and networks. Unfortunately, these are not being staffed and fronted by actual journalists in the main. Op/eds have become the product of choice in the media over the last couple of decades. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp publications and shows have led the way in this populist approach to current affairs and the news. Sky News Australia and Fox News are chock full of former right wing political hacks and staffers. Objectivity has become an arcane idea laughed about at editorial and production meetings in search of eyeballs and ratings. Therefore, you cannot trust the right wing media.

Facts & Right Wing Media Rarely Aligned

Many of the presenters and op/ed writers working in right wing media are hell bent on appealing to anti-woke prejudices within their viewers. They do not let facts get in the way of telling an inflammatory story. Fact checking is oh so woke. The culture wars fuel their passions for sensationalism and bogus allegations about anyone on the left of Donald Trump or Peter Dutton. Fox News has been successfully sued for libel over the fake claim that Trump won the 2020 US presidential election and rigged voting machines were to blame. It cost News Corp nearly a billion dollars and there are more court actions sub judice right now.

The Right Wing Media Bubble

The truth is that many right wing viewers in Australia and America are not college educated. This means that they have not been trained in critical thinking. The right wing media and populist MAGA movement appeals to their prejudices against LGBTQI, Wokeness, immigrants, and liberal elites. Many of these folk do not wait around for actual evidence but rather gleefully embrace every claim presented by those at Fox and Sky News. The Elon Musk DOGE purges have been accompanied by allegations of fraud and corruption – however, no actual proof is ever provided for these claims. Still, the MAGA faithful eat it up, as it confirms their existing prejudices about government wastage. This is a con. Musk is sacking Inspector Generals in government agencies, removing the guardrails from the system. This will allow unfettered corruption to thrive largely unseen by the public because the monitors have been sacked. False accusations about fraud are made to clear the way for real crimes to be committed by Trump’s billionaire mates. Fox News is not checking or demanding to see actual evidence for these allegations about USAID but behaving like cheer leaders.

You cannot trust right wing media to perform the role that the fourth estate is supposed to. How many investigative journalists work in the right wing media? Bugger all!

“The findings add to a growing list of issues that have been found with DOGE’s claims of cutting government waste. The agency has struggled to back up lofty claims of fraud and appeared to have misinterpreted data from the Social Security Administration and a Department of Homeland Security contract. An Associated Press analysis found 40% of contracts cut by DOGE aren’t expected to save the government any money. The New York Times reported Tuesday that DOGE had quietly removed five of its biggest listed savings from its website.”