In an article way back in 2015 I noted that the faux-progressive website "Independent Australia" was independent of "Quality control, consistency, accuracy and editorial skill." Has it got better since? Well no, if a recent attempt to soothe reader concerns about the One Nation surge is any guide, it seems to have got even worse. I've decided to write a whole piece about this trainwreck to explain how abysmal IA's standards are and why nobody should be enabling their output in any way.
The most recent case is an article attributed - I have no idea whether correctly - to a Dr Jason Foster of RMIT. Even the qualifications of the claimed author are something IA cannot seem to get straight. The RMIT website states that Foster "holds a PhD in Media and Communication from RMIT, focusing on the representations of history in film and other media." IA however claimed his PhD covered "media representations, politics and national consciousness", a claim that has since, without acknowledgement of error, been removed.
Before I deal with what is uniquely bad about this article and IA's failed attempt (?) to fix it, I will pick off a number of the low-hanging fruit, many of which are common myths about elections.
