More than three-quarters of Australian news presenters are white, report finds

dorian · Guru

More than three-quarters of Australian news presenters are white, report finds

Santa · Guru

Ahh yes, very much as you would expect from our left wing ABC. biggrin

dogbox · Guru

i maybe wrong but does not the indigenious population make up approx 2% of our total population

Santa · Guru

Approx 3% in the 2016 census.

Mike Harding · Guru

What about the goldfish!?

How many bloody news reporters are goldfish!? Answer me that, if you can!

Yet consider how many goldfish there are in Australia.

Blatant fishism! And the bloody ABC is the worst - not *one* goldfish amongst it's news readers or current affairs presenters!

Not a word from Waleed Aly on this one is there - no surprise there, a fishist if ever I saw one.

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Then what is the ratio in jails, courts, Centrelink ?? Fair dinkum !! ABC !!

Santa · Guru

I foresee a thread closure coming up. wink

Mike Harding · Guru

Santa wrote:
I foresee a thread closure coming up.

Oh no! Don't tell me the website owner is fishist too!?

dorian · Guru

These are the links to the study and the press release:

https://www.mediadiversityaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Press-release_final.pdf

https://www.mediadiversityaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Who-Gets-To-Tell-Australian-Stories_LAUNCH-VERSION.pdf

I notice that NITV was specifically excluded from the study.

I also notice that there was no separate "Asian" category. Instead they were categorised as non-European. That seems unusual.

BTW, I didn't mean to stir up any trouble. I just found it odd that the ABC journo didn't appear to understand the meaning of "white".

Craig1 · Guru

dDorian, you have too much spare time, but my brief read is that these people have far too much time and are **** stirring. Maybe the quality of many supposed news/current affairs programs would be a better target. Also the " speed reading of every event" so they can rush to the next ad break, ABC included. One exception is the new Irish lady who does sport for ABC on the weekend. A bit like listening to paint dry, or treacle drip.

iana · Guru

Be careful, look what happens here, Cindy will give you "The Look". www.bing.com/videos/search%22the+look%22+tim+allen&&view=detail&mid=3EAAE138DAF35893A60E3EAAE138DAF35893A

Greg 1 · Guru

Quite frankly I have found that most Australians are very accepting of our multicultural society. I have worked with people from a variety of racial backgrounds from indigenous to Asian to middle eastern and all different beliefs and have rarely seen any racist behaviour or comment from anyone. Certainly there are racial bigots in this country with some extreme views but much of this so called racism is stirred up by the media and special interest groups who are not representative of the majority of Australians. This sounds like another beat up. Can't find something to write about so we will pull the old race card trick. Always guaranteed to get some attention. It's like the old saying, " Nationalism is the last bastion of the crooked politician "

Mike Harding · Guru

Greg 1 wrote:
Quite frankly I have found that most Australians are very accepting of our multicultural society. I have worked with people from a variety of racial backgrounds from indigenous to Asian to middle eastern and all different beliefs and have rarely seen any racist behaviour or comment from anyone. Certainly there are racial bigots in this country with some extreme views but much of this so called racism is stirred up by the media and special interest groups who are not representative of the majority of Australians. This sounds like another beat up. Can't find something to write about so we will pull the old race card trick. Always guaranteed to get some attention. It's like the old saying, " Nationalism is the last bastion of the crooked politician "

Well said Greg.

I have travelled this world extensively and have no doubt Australia is the least racist country I've visited or lived in, despite what some malcontents would wish us to believe.

If you want see endemic racism visit a middle eastern Arab country.

dorian · Guru

The ABC journo reported on a study which showed that the cultural backgrounds of news presenters were skewed toward Anglo-Celtic, yet the journo ironically headlined his report in a way which suggested that he himself had an Anglocentric bias. That's all that I meant to say.

As for the absence of Asians and other non-Europeans at the news desk, I would think that this may have cultural explanations of its own. At the risk of being accused of stereotyping, it seems to me that Asian career choices are skewed toward STEM rather than the humanities, which would mean that there would be less applicants for these positions.