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Flat White

Policy consistency: The Conversation last year, the ABC today?

26 October 2016

3:13 PM

26 October 2016

3:13 PM

Last year the government withdrew its funding from the pseudo-academic website The Conversation, saying its aggressive expansion appeared to indicate it could stand on its own two feet.

That was the official line. There was another, unstated reason: that it peddled nothing but clickbait and leftie shite in competition with the commercial media.

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