Dude, this article was designed purely to get this exact reaction out of you so that you would drive traffic to news.com.au.
I know, and I even predicted this response from you :) All news is like this - clickbait for a reaction. None of it is well supported by the majority of opinion, it is all cherrypicked. However, that doesn't stop it from influencing the majority of opinion, especially if there is already a preference.
hell, the author is probably doing the exact same thing.
Yes - all about attention.
Hahaha, I do like to be consistent.
You've written before about how MSM is corrupt and can't be trusted, so it does require some media literacy and mental discipline from us all to not feed into it. You've now driven traffic to news.com.au and given them exactly what they wanted.
I will say that not all news is like this. Think of Watergate or Dieselgate, investigative journalism created real consequences and societal change - it used to be that journalism was society's main defense against corruption - so those of us who don't just mindlessly follow the masses need to support good investigative journalism and be disciplined against ragebait.
For sure. but, hopefully one or two people who go there see it through a slightly different lens than they would have. That media literacy takes time and effort to build.
It has been a while since much was done. The investment it takes for the 5 minutes it will be seen. Look at how the Panama papers, which was a whistleblower dump so not as much work was needed, just disappeared.
I don't know if you remember the "Family" of pedophiles in Adelaide from the 80s. They killed children and there was evidence supposedly that incriminated some very high up people - disappeared.
The things that actually matter, don't seem to get much light of the day.