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Independent Australia also has some questionable articles too lately.
But then ABC is basically terrible and I'm debating whether or not to even bother using them as a source.
That said, I'm not posting these because I agree with it, think of me as a bot just transferring articles and summaries to a link aggregator with minor discernment.
ABC News on the air is okay.
ABC News website? Why? Just... why? Half the time you load it up, every second story is a human interest story about the struggles of being poor, disabled, a woman, or gay. And I don't mean a mix, I mean they seem to have a different theme for each day of the week. Tuesdays are Poverty Porn day, Wednesday Women's Woes, Thursdays it's a slate of disability inspiration porn that's so saccharine and maudlin that I can't read it... and I am disabled. Instead of having to pick the news stories that interest me, it's a struggle just to pick the actual news stories.
That's only the lead stories that get pushed to you by default on the front page, it's much better if you make the effort to customise your feed. In any case, cost of living is a big issue right now and those human stories are probably quite important for some readers.
A fairer critique of ABC News would be the clickbait headlines they run on the front page, that are often quite misleading compared to the secondary titles or the articles themselves. For example, there was one today with the headline 'PM warns there will be no other constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians if Voice fails', but the actual article title was '"Not focused on hypotheticals": PM not considering other forms of Indigenous recognition if Voice fails'. Those are two quite different statements. And if you actually read the article itself, or watch the Insiders interview it is based on, nowhere does Albanese directly say either of those things. That was actually a line that Speers, who co-wrote this article, asked while questioning Albanese. Somehow that question not being answered directly has been twisted into an assertion from Albanese.
Oh damn, now I'm not going to be able to resist categorising each day's articles into your Icaria-Dewey Decimal System.