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Media bias
MEAA initiated press self-regulation in 1944 when it created the MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics (see the FAQs about the Code here). You can download a .pdf of the MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics by clicking here and download a poster version here. You can download a .pdf step-by-step guide to How MEAA’s Journalist Code of Ethics complaints process works here. Under MEAA’s rules registered with the Fair Work Commission, only MEAA Media’s journalist members are bound by MEAA’s Journalist Code of Ethics – MEAA can undertake no action or investigation that involves individuals who are not MEAA members. Complaints about non-MEAA members should be taken up with the appropriate media employer and/or media industry body: The Australian Press Council has guidelines and standards for print and digital media outlets. The constituent bodies of the Australian Press Council and their publications can be viewed here. Broadcasting industry bodies also operate a complaints process: Free TV Australia; Commercial Radio Australia; the…
Learn journalism the easy way
You can save yourself three years of politically correct, left-wing indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.
Learn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
(All of the following are regularly used in media reports. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)
Sparked (the most important word in a journalist’s vocabulary), as in “sparked anger”, “sparked uproar”, “sparked outrage”, “sparked a war of words”;
rolled, as in “Caucus rolled the Prime Minister”, or “The Minister was rolled on the issue“. Political leaders never change their minds or review their decisions, they “back flip” or they are “rolled”;
caved-in; back flip; exposed; blamed; threatened; warned; sent shock waves; shattered; pummelled; taken a hit; rolled over; attacked; intimidated; undermined; killed; spinning dangerously out of control; the death toll from a tragic ….….,
It was interesting watching the former Chief Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB), Martin Dolan on 60 Minutes on Sunday night (13/5/2018). He started out at odds with the panel of aviation experts assembled by 60 Minutes by clinging to the incapacitated pilots theory. Each of the aviation experts trashed his theory by presenting evidence, particularly of the flaperon, indicating the plane was carefully ditched under pilot control. Then Dolan made an amazing claim at the end of the program that it was no longer necessary to find MH370. When asked why by interviewer Tara Brown, he said because we all have come to a conclusion on the fate of MH370. And what conclusion is that, asked Tara Brown. We all agree that that the aircraft was under pilot control when it ditched, said Dolan. I am paraphrasing, but that is essentially what was said. Incredible about-face. Tara…