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Wednesday, 20 January 2021

Lenore Taylor on why truth, facts and journalism are more important to democracy than ever.

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In 2020 the media was faced with the dual challenge of covering a pandemic and an avalanche of misinformation. In this episode of Full Story, Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor discusses how Australia’s response compared with other countries and the challenges ahead for journalism

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/jan/20/lenore-taylor-on-why-truth-facts-and-journalism-are-more-important-to-democracy-than-ever

Wed 20 Jan 2021 03.30 AEDT

This interview with Lenore Taylor is based on an essay she has written for the Fire, Flood and Plague anthology series. You can read it here or buy it in an anthology published by Penguin Random House.

Guardian Australia Editor, Lenore Taylor. Photograph by Carly Earl. Guardian Staff byline. October. 2018. Australia.

Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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