Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Assessing the national mood has become much more difficult, but the media have continued reporting them as though nothing has changed.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the main newspaper groups.
Opinion polls have been...