I did it, a whole week without my precious Age. For seven days I have read nothing but The Australian and Crikey, and it was a massive failure. The Australian is a little better than The Age in its omission of junk but not as much as I was expecting, it’s just national junk as opposed to Victorian junk, and the layout makes it look a little more sophisticated. A lot of the national stories were scandal pieces that wouldn’t be amiss on A Current Affair, and if I wanted any Victorian news I was ushered to the Herald Sun’s website, and there’s no way I’m going to read that without several massive grains of salt. What I have come to realise though is that a lot of the news just doesn’t interest me; Australian politics is given more coverage than it deserves - although to be informed voters I suppose we need information, but that said a lot of it is just spin – and the few issues I am interested in at the moment are getting negative, brainless coverage that is making me angry. I think the general populace, and those in parliament forget their heart when it comes to asylum seekers. We have a (closet) mildly racist population who don’t take the time to think about the situations asylum seekers are fleeing from, or to look at the tiny numbers we actually receive. This is an area where votes should be completely disregarded and the right thing done by those seeking safety. This Wednesday's Hack on Triple J showed me this week just how insensitive and uninformed some of our population are.
I’ve just realised that in all this I’ve completely forgotten the ABC; they’re good for national news, but again not great for Victorian news. Maybe from now on I can read the ABC and Crikey and just check the Victorian section of The Age. Or not read anything and submit a very informed donkey vote at the end of the year, something I’m seriously considering since both major parties seem to be made up of heartless fools.
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