The Media in Australia
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The media in Australia is centralized and owned by a few large monopolies, and government connivance has assisted the process (Media). There is a link between the government, the great corporations, and the ôfreeö media, which has built a system of economic, political, and psychological control over the people. The media boosts politicians and academics who push the ôrightö ideas and creates sympathy for particular causes. The media is therefore acting as a propaganda organ for the government. The education system is also involved in this control of public opinion, because it teaches the ideas of cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and multiculturalism. School subjects reflect this ideology. Australia is often cited as the exemplar of the failure of media to guarantee the quality and independence of broadcasting, according to Paul Jones (Jones). British programing via Sky easily surpasses the Australian in professionalism, demonstrating that MurdochÆs institutions can produce high quality news programming, but only when put in a regulatory environment. The Australian broadcasting sector has never been subjected to the levels of regulation equivalent to its British counterpart, the BBC, nor even to the levels of the USÆs former ôfairness doctrine.ö Australian commercial broadcast journalism is effectively self-regulated. The oligopolisation and deregulation of media has left Australia with an increasingly marginalized public sector which fails to provide professiona
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