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Evidence of Murdoch’s newspapers distorting news to fuel racism

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Fri, 24/06/2011 - 3:07pm

Media disinformation and negativity against non-Western cultures in Australia is a terminal disease spreading into the bloodstream of the mainstream media industry in Australia. The following incident demonstrated how easy it is to demonise a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne through the manipulation of news using the techniques of factual omission, misleading heading, misleading bullet-point-highlight, misleading bold-highlight and the editorialising of content using a series of subjective and strong wordings to sell the personal opinion of the journalist or editor as news.

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24 months on, International News Syndicate’s website still “undergoing redevelopment” – why?

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 27/04/2011 - 5:06pm

This month marks the 2nd anniversary of the Australia News and Features Services (ANFS) website and International News Syndicate (INS) website putting up a statement:

“This site is currently undergoing redevelopment. We apologise for any inconvenience. It is, however, still business as usual for us here at International News Syndicate Limited. Please, simply contact us on admin@internationalnewssyndicate.com”

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Has the Australia Press Council protected media that violated its own written principles?

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Thu, 29/07/2010 - 4:09pm

About The Australia Press Council

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More dodgy materials exposed - The Age and John Garnaut case continue

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Mon, 14/06/2010 - 12:14pm

On 24 May 2010, I posted my 2nd report in regard to The Age and John Garnaut’s dodgy journalism case under the heading: “Media Accountability - The Age must say ‘Sorry’ to Australians”. As promised in the report, I then notify The Age Newsdesk, John Garnaut, Media Watch and Walkleys Foundation the following day (25 May 2010).

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Media accountability—The Age must say ‘Sorry’ to Australians

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Mon, 24/05/2010 - 4:37pm

On the 12th May 2010, I filed a report under the heading: ‘Can we trust our media? The shocking behaviour of the Age’s Journalist, John Garnaut’. In this report, I describe how I uncovered the shocking behaviour of The Age’s Journalist John Garnaut in his report dated 9 May 2009 under the heading ‘Journey through an earthquake’.

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Can we trust our media? The shocking behaviour of The Age's journalist John Garnaut

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Wed, 12/05/2010 - 3:57pm

This year mark the 2nd anniversary of the Earthquake in Sichuan, China (12 May 2008), 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, USA (29 August 2005), and the 1st anniversary of the Black Saturday (Bush fire) in Victoria, Australia (7 February 2009).

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