Channel 7’s War On Young Australians
Legacy media is an old white people’s thing. Thus, you can understand Channel 7’s war on young Australians in this context. Their viewing audience is older folk and they exploit the fears of that demographic by ramping up sensationalistic coverage of crime porn on the news. It is ‘gangs at large’ and ‘violent home invasions’ shouted to the rooftops. This despite the facts showing that these instances are rare as, especially when you factor in the millions of us that now live in Australian cities. Don’t let the facts get in the way of telling an emotive story designed to freak out oldies, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugGJEAycn0
Seven News Is Slandering The Youth Of Australia
You know, I have been writing about this stuff and the economic realities of where we find ourselves in Australia for years now. Younger people are doing it tough, whilst older propertied Aussies are on easy street, relatively speaking. I warned of crime being a very real possibility, within a grossly unfair society. Being wealthy, white and old is not a free pass to avoiding all responsibility for the state of your community. We all have to live in this nation together and in these towns and cities. You cannot expect to just ignore the economic hardships of others, as if they don’t exist.
“The Facts – Youth Crime
Overview
Crime Statistics show that Youth Crime (those under 18) in Victoria has been steadily decreasing over the last decade (between 2014 and 2023).
While there has been a recent trend upwards in the 2023 numbers which are up from the 2022 numbers, fluctuations throughout the decade are not uncommon.
We know that the cost of living and housing crisis has had a huge impact on young people, and often leads to the drivers that cause these fluctuations. “
- (https://youthlaw.asn.au/the-facts-in-youth-crime/ ) 7 TV Network News Never Asks Why
At the same time, nobody is condoning crime. However, I never hear Channel 7, ever, presenting any context or deeper reflections into what may be at the root cause of this youth crime wave they are so ready to exploit for its clickbait facility. Stirring up fear and rage seems to be their sole intention. Headlines and screen grabs about old white men getting out of Dodge/Melbourne beg the question is this OTT? What we have seen, is that as the ad revenue has dried up so has the balanced coverage of topics. Desperate times produce stories of the same nature, as producers ramp up the tone for ratings. White knuckle reporting, as crime wave grips city! If we were in Trump’s America, we would be seeing the National Guard on the streets. Oh yeah, remember Peter Dutton wanting to bring in the army to Alice Springs? Those conservatives downunder do love to shamelessly copy the Yanks.
Channel 7’s war on young Australians makes out that the youth of this nation are running amok. It never asks why, however. Perhaps, like a good percentage of well off Australia, they couldn’t give a rat’s arse why. Lock em up and throw away the key! Just keep the bastards away from my property. Feel the love Australia!
How To Really Back Australia
“News Corp, the owner of most of our capital city newspapers, could start by paying corporate tax for the first time in a decade if they really wanted to back Australia. Appealing only to the dumbest Aussies, who have no idea who owns what, News Corp is an American company. Hypocritical News Corp call for us to back Australia. The provincial backward looking campaign is but a smokescreen for an advertising feature. Legacy media is on its last legs and the world has rapidly moved on from newspapers and free to air TV. These ad revenue dependent business models are very last century.”
- (https://www.golfdom.com.au/hypocritical-news-corp-call-for-us-to-back-australia/)
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; The Stoic Golfer; Money Matters and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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