Occasionally decent, held back by preachy-ness and heavy bias
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“While entertaining, engaging, and often covering interesting and relevant subjects, I am unable to to take hack seriously, nor respect it as a source of news. For a show funded by a government agency, hack is plagued by inexcusable bias, and displays extremely overt agenda-driven story framing.
Hack seems to think that just because the show's target audience is willing to lap up any amount of hype, rhetoric, and anecdotal/emotion based evidence they feed them, that they are exempt from their duty as publicly funded journalists to provide high-quality, objective, professional content.
Hack, when low on relevant high-impact topics, also loves to generate hype and outrage about non-issues in what can only be seen as tabloid journalism.
As someone who fits into hacks target demographic, and admittedly agrees with hack's stance on a majority of issues, also being someone with a respect for unobscured rationality, reasonable debate, and a keen interest in journalism, I have difficulty seeing hack as anything more than glorified tabloid journalism, and am disgusted that it is promoted as a valid source of news by the ABC. Hack does nothing but promote masturbatory confirmation-bias in the country's youth, and encourage biased, emotional outrage, at the expense of objectivity and rational discussion.”Read full review »
Scarmask_ via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
06/17/14
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“Informative, Clear and always a great listen.”
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08/14/12
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“Poor, agenda driven journalism. Utter rubbish”
hershsahai via Apple Podcasts ·
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11/09/09
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