{"id":47471,"date":"2021-02-20T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=269982"},"modified":"2021-02-20T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:44:51","slug":"laughing-stock-australias-new-media-code-rivals-our-climate-policy-for-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/20\/laughing-stock-australias-new-media-code-rivals-our-climate-policy-for-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing Stock: Australia\u2019s new media code rivals our climate policy for absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/8EDF2FF5-D7F4-4CBB-8B8F-9FE8F8D5E82E.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/8EDF2FF5-D7F4-4CBB-8B8F-9FE8F8D5E82E.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/8EDF2FF5-D7F4-4CBB-8B8F-9FE8F8D5E82E-480x300.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Google good, Facebook bad. That sums up mainstream media coverage of the Coalition government's bizarre new media code. Google paid up, Facebook decided it was extortion and called Josh Frydenberg's bluff, banning Australian news. Kim Wingerei and Michael West report on the corruption of mainstream media.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/laughing-stock-australias-new-media-code-rivals-our-climate-policy-for-absurdity\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google good, Facebook bad. That sums up mainstream media coverage of the Coalition government&#8217;s bizarre new media code. Google paid up, Facebook decided it was extortion and called Josh Frydenberg&#8217;s bluff, banning Australian news. Kim Wingerei and Mich&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471"}],"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\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47472,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471\/revisions\/47472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}