David Sharaz

@SharazDavid

Media & campaigns @ GetUp

Melbourne, Victoria presscouncil.com.au Joined February 2021

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.@AlboMP @AnikaWells do you think it’s acceptable for a news org to be this fixated with one person’s family for so long?

Do you think that’s …. Normal?

8000+ or so articles in 5 years.

300+ opinion columns by Janet A since 2021.

David Sharaz @SharazDavid Oct 25

News24 made me ‘Wally of the Week’ for campaigning for media regulation, arguing the Guardian refused to join the Press Council. Exactly my point. Publishers can just opt out of being regulated. Call me shonky all you like @carolinemarcus for demanding a better press in Aust.

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David Sharaz @SharazDavid Oct 25

News24 made me ‘Wally of the Week’ for campaigning for media regulation, arguing the Guardian refused to join the Press Council. Exactly my point. Publishers can just opt out of being regulated. Call me shonky all you like @carolinemarcus for demanding a better press in Aust.

David Sharaz @SharazDavid Oct 21

Most people don’t realise how utterly useless the Press Council is until they have to deal with it. I’ve been trying to positively engage with it behind the scenes since Feb. Radio silence. Then again, it’s funded by the very tabloids it’s supposed to police.

GetUp! Verified account @GetUp Oct 21

The @AusPressCouncil has been working hard to get its website back after GetUp launched a campaign for a better press regulator. @SharazDavid explains...

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David Sharaz @SharazDavid Oct 20

An ABC News live blog included a 1:34 video of Dr Haines being moved from an air ambulance in Melb. Filming a seriously unwell person on a stretcher from a distance and publishing it is an intrusion into one of the most private moments a person can have. I’ve lodged a complaint.

David Sharaz @SharazDavid Sep 16

So we also now own notthepresscouncil.com.au

act.getup.org.au Time to fix Australia'sbroken media Australia's media accountability system is no longer fit for purpose.The Australian Press Council is meant to hold publishers to account. But it is funded by…

David Sharaz @SharazDavid Sep 16

Just a reminder that we own presscouncil.com.au and that GetUp is calling for an independent press regulator.

Not sure how long we'll own it, because the Press Council has put more effort into sending us legal letters than it has actually dealing with complaints.
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