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The effect of Right-wing bias in Australia's media (independentaustralia.net)
submitted 1 year ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Old, but unfortunately more relevant than ever

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m assuming we can agree there is a progressive bias in the commentary, and types of content shared here, otherwise the story makes no sense.

I agree that the majority of users tend to swing in that direction. But - that's it. There is no site-wide agenda to align with any specific political party. That "progressive" tug may lead those users to vote for Green, Teal, Labor or independant. That does nothing to suggest that people should not vote LNP, nor do we tell people how that should vote. This is what I mean by not being politically aligned. I suspect that if we were somehow able to get an accurate poll of users, sorted by party that LNP would middle of the pack. Behind Greens/Labor but ahead of the others.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe i should have made the assumption comment more clear by specifying 'Note:'. But this was an addendum to the above story. Because i realised if we don't agree on the bias, then the story makes little sense. And i'd need to explain it more.

In terms of a site wide political agenda, i never said there was. Telling people how to vote. I haven't. Please don't insinuate that i have.

We all have our biases and interests, mine probably come across fairly strongly due to my fairly high activity. But a lot of what I post is just to keep c/Perth relatively interesting and active.

For your last comment. Its an interesting hypothetical. I'd be surprised with a poll result where the LNP landed in the middle of the pack for aussie-zone, especially the Nationals in that. It would actually gratify me, as Nationals are generally more popular in rural areas, and i've tried to incorporate more than just Perth articles in my run of base posts for c/Perth.