Former ABC broadcast journalist, Peter Clarke (@MediaActive) cuts through the spin and propaganda with #PropagandaWatch.
Stop and consider the slogans: @MediaActive #AusVotes #PropagandaWatch
The Australian Electoral Commission (@AEC) is one of our most trusted national institutions (albeit with a couple of blots on its copy-book, including a re-run of a senate election for Western Australia). Watching the electoral shenanigans in the United States with its state-based, highly partisan voting systems for national elections, we can only give thanks […]
Get off the bus and do some journalism: @MediaActive comments on #AusVotes19 #PropagandaWatch
We frail humans, no matter how savvy we think we are, are all prey to the partisan predations of crafted propaganda. We spend our daily lives immersed in advertising logos, slogans, celebrity, branding, seductive visuals and audio lures. We have psychological scar tissue we hardly recognise. This is despite our supposedly increased awareness of and […]