Ok, we'll just have to stick to our points of view. Just wanted to add that Change.org gets a lot of air play because it is the largest petition platform, to my knowledge, in the English-speaking world. Also that petitions can be very useful and effective as part of broader campaigns.

I learnt a lot myself as I was responding to you, so thank you for the exchange.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago

Change.org gets a lot of air play

Sadly the landscape for journalism in the current era is kind of corrupted.

Instead of journalists doing the investigating and reporting to the public in an objective way, it's very often communications teams employed by companies that are doing a lot of the work.

Someone who works for change dot org writes the backbone of "an article" in dot points and sends it to a contact or even a publicist who puts them in touch with a journalist or presenter.

In an era where there's no money in real journalism this is how print journalists meet their quota.

Certainly that podcast episode was created in this way, change dot org comms lady had a publicist who contacted the abc presenter. They got Dr whoever on board for the episode to create balance. Boom. Easy podcast ep.

The same thing happens with retailers on free to air TV for both news and current affairs shows. If a company, retailer, or website is mentioned there's a very strong likelihood that they created a lot of the content.

They talk about this a lot on media watch on ABC.

Regardless, I wish you well in your opposition to this development.