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News Corp does away with council reporters and replaces them with AI. The results? As you might expect.
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The octogenarian lawmaker’s absence from the Senate has become a matter of mild obsession for some online and in the press.
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News Corp has turned, of course, to artificial intelligence, entrusting it to read council papers and turn out accurate, balanced, and fair copy, which it seems is going as well as its illustration which feature a protester missing his head.
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Surely, the ACMA has better things to do than dance around on the head of a pin.
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News24 host James Macpherson issued a correction after mistaking an online comedy sketch for a Seven News report.
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But how did James Macpherson think this was anything but satire?
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Ulrich Siegmund is a pop star of the party, with a cult status online, racking up likes with nationalistic clips pining for the good old days.
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The media learning, yet again, for One Nation, the old rules just don’t seem to apply.
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The ABC runs the wrong photos of Tupac’s killer, and how Seven, Ten, (and even us) replayed images of the wrong floods.
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Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that’s not the flood in Nepal.
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