Listen to Context and the media48:3812 October 2023

Jess and Rachel are joined by Peter Lewis of Essential Media to talk about polling, given its prominence in the lead up to the Voice to Parliament referendum. What's the process how do they achieve accuracy?
The team also talk to Nasser Mashni, President of The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, to discuss the week's coverage of the Palestine-Israel conflict. How has it shown the continuing bias of perspective in mainstream media, and the lack of context provided for situations such as this?

About this program

We live in a media saturated world. The news cycle travels at lightning speed and is impossible to ignore. Spin Cycle aims to make sense of the 24/7 updates and hot takes we are bombarded with from media outlets, politicians and pundits all trying to own the narrative.