Here in Australia we've got the ABC, which is publicly funded but by law it has to be independent and non-partisan. It's basically the high watermark of journalistic integrity in our country, it takes fact-checking very seriously, and its investigations have real impact.
I also watch/read SBS News, which is our special broadcasting service dedicated to international news and news relevant to people from other cultures. If you want to know what's happening around the world without any sugar coating or political agenda, SBS News is a pretty good source.
Just about everything else is garbage here. Commercial news channels run sports reports, puff pieces, paid advertisements, and pro-right-wing propaganda. They have zero journalistic integrity, but unfortunately they're a lot more popular than the ABC or SBS.
@Sevenizz said:
I subscribe to 60 Minutes Australia
Haha!
Just FYI - 60 Minutes is like the gossip magazine version of our actual investigative journalism show, Four Corners. It pretends to be a classier version of A Current Affair, but it isn't.
60 Minutes often gets caught out for inventing stories, or paying for things to happen so that they can make a story about it. Such as that time they funded a child abduction in Lebanon, and got arrested for it. Or the time they made an outrage piece about some international sperm donor coming to Australia, only for the ABC to discover that 60 Minutes had partly funded the trip.
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