{"id":192808,"date":"2021-06-05T22:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T22:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=280313"},"modified":"2021-06-05T22:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T22:36:44","slug":"propaganda-machine-deloitte-skews-fact-on-economy-media-laps-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/05\/propaganda-machine-deloitte-skews-fact-on-economy-media-laps-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Machine: Deloitte skews fact on economy, media laps it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dodgy-data.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Deloitte&#039;s dodgy data\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dodgy-data.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dodgy-data-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Deloitte Access Economics\u2019 claims about Australia\u2019s economic recovery were repeated verbatim by media outlets, even though many of the claims were based on cherrypicked data and mixed verified GDP figures with unverified data in a classic apples with oranges comparison. Alan Austin takes a closer look.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/propaganda-machine-deloitte-skews-fact-on-economy-media-laps-it-up\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deloitte Access Economics\u2019 claims about Australia\u2019s economic recovery were repeated verbatim by media outlets, even though many of the claims were based on cherrypicked data and mixed verified GDP figures with unverified data in a classic apples with o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192809,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192808\/revisions\/192809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}