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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 83: Morrison ”hosts” the media, election campaign highlights and low lights, good news about solar panels at night
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison discuss "horse race" political journalism in light of the revelations that Morrison is "hosting drinks for the media" during the campaign and that the "cash rate gaffe" was based on a question asked after a visit to a nursing home that needed nurses but where the media wasn't interested in asking about aged care policy.
With disinformation campaigns having shaped national elections in Australia, the UK and the USA in recent years Van and Ben discuss why trust in the media is so important and how recognising the potential for bias by...