The Chaser's War On Everything
From Lateline: "ABC management has pulled the comedy program The Chaser's War on Everything off the air for two weeks over a skit which satirised a well-known charity for dying children. [The Make-A-Wish Foundation] [...] The Prime Minister joined public criticism of this week's program which carried the controversial 'Make a Realistic Wish
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That might be why i was confused...
causing the audience discomfort about our comfortably-held, under-scrutinised notions of what charity is and who is truly 'needy'.
That does seem to be a big thing in Australian culture; or at least, in tabloid journalism reporting on Australian culture. It's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins sometimes.
I saw a statistic that something like 80% of Australians have no confidence in the media, but i wonder, if you did surveys like the Fox News ones in the US (that revealed that a significant proportion of Fox News viewers had factually incorrect beliefs about the wars/terrorism), if it'd turn out that people are influenced without knowing it, or that the media accurately reflects some attitudes, despite this lack of confidence.
This is going almost completely off-topic, of course...
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