Truth, Lies and Media

A special live event with MP Georgie Purcell, Nicole Chvastek and Denis Muller.

Recorded on November 8 at the Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine.

You can find out more about Georgie and the Animal Justice Party here:
https://vic.animaljusticeparty.org/georgie_purcell_mp
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/georgie-purcell/

Our sincere thanks to all our members, the hotel staff, and to everyone who came along and made this such an enjoyable evening!
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The US midterms were the mega story of the year .. when exhausted Americans singing the songs of angry men started to reclaim their country from the brutal bullshitting Orange fascist.
But the Murdoch media lost their tiny minds, with hysterical warnings that the end of western civilisation might be upon us if a cheerful intelligent Muslim called Abdul ElSayed were elected to the US Senate. Best have a Bex and a lie down News24. He’s in.
Over in Trumpland the President was posting furiously on Truth Social that his landslide losses were all Fox News fault because of their outrageous practice of occasional interviews with Democrats .. around midnight he rang in to bag the presenters personally for Fox polls they’d broadcast that dared suggest he was unpopular.
[from 5:20]

We also investigate the toxic UK media culture that took the ratings and looked away when celebrity Russell Brand was on TV and radio and a depraved rape spree.
He’s about to start a 10 year jail sentence.
[from 14:30]

And in Victoria we unpack why Jess Wilson’s strategy of walking out of press conferences before the questions get too hot - will backfire.
[from 31:00]
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It was quite the bombshell allegation for a Senator in high office to drop during Senate Estimates - that the ABC employs Hamas terrorists as journalists in its news coverage of Gaza.
The ABC executives that Senator Sarah Henderson was monstering were polite but firm - despite her repeated claims that the ABC pushback was “outrageous” she had furnished no actual evidence that any of her incendiary claims were true.
And that’s because they were not true.
We look at the reckless right wing attack on the ABC this week .. disgraceful accusations which tried but failed to equate the national broadcaster with an abhorrent evil.
[from 4:30]

We also check out the anti semitism envoy's latest list of authoritarian demands to reshape our democracy in her preferred pro-Israel image.
[from 11:50]

And tensions have erupted at the hard right Murdoch media fun factory that is the old Sky News (now News 24) during a live-to-air dust-up over who has control of the Credlin show’s rundown and who called who a dickhead. Gold.
[from 23:35]
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It’s not often you see an accused war criminal on a PR blitz before his criminal trial but Ben Roberts-Smith has been telling his story to right wing news outlets while a“powerful formation” of billionaires, politicians and media line up behind him.
[from 5:10]

We also look at the growing calls for an end to violent political rhetoric .. Independent Monique Ryan has told the ABC it’s time for the media to stop giving hater-in-chief Pauline Hanson credence and airtime.
Even as Helen Haines fights for life after being horrifically run down, the One Nation leader is defending her party’s violent cartoons which gleefully depict politicians being hit by cars or murdered.
[from18:00]

And the unfathomably dark arts of news priorities - look over there at the hats and the horseflesh!
The Melbourne Cup gets bigger headlines than Anthropic releasing its stock market prospectus warning that its AI products may kill humanity.
[from 25:30]
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We look at the Murdoch media shamelessly weaponising the horrific attack on Helen Haines to bash the left - even as she fights for life in hospital - and ignoring the PMs call to lower the temperature on political hate.
[from 7:20]

Plus what are the electoral watchdogs doing to stop a blatantly fraudulent election ad faked up by Advance and featuring a gloating AI Dan Andrews and Ben Carroll? The far right disinformation machine is in full swing we discover.
[from 18:10]

And the ABC is about to broadcast its powerful docu-drama “Shake Down” - a searing look into Scott Morrisons cruel cash grab from the poor, notoriously branded “Robodebt”
[from 25:40]
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