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Media Watch
1989 · TV series · documentary · 15 min episodes · 18 seasons
An Australian media analysis television program currently focusing on critiquing the Australian media.
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Regrettably the big Australian miners (Rio Tinto, BHP, Fortescue, etc) want electric to work and are vocal about their efforts in that direction but the four or five stand alone fully electric trucks (Rio) trotted out for pressers aren't a good reflection of either the fleet majority or even of the current new acquisitions.
No longer online (just) the recent ABC "Media Watch -s2026e22- Monday 2026-07-06 BHP Battery Bunkum" episode had a bit to say about the curtain (media releases) not matching the carpet (purchasing).
That aside .. electric motors are as big a deal in mining as they've always been -
* bench face excavators are fully electric and drag power lines behind them as they load out trucks,
* most hundred+ tonne haul pak trucks are electrically driven .. (using power from onboard diesel generators),
* underground likes to use semi autonomous leading edge tools (up hole drilling for blasting, face shaving and loadout, etc) on powerlines, so you do see more usage there than in open CUT (I know, open cast was likely a typo)
etc.
Even super pro renewable Fortescue's Twiggy Forrest is having setbacks, although he's always been three steps forward, two and half back for much of his career, so things are still progressing.
Not if:
* they already have peer filename.nfo files with TVDB | IMDB | TMDB ID's
* not if they have scene standard names AND are not ambiguous media names (eg: Utopia - which of the 5 possible series do you mean?)
But these are issues all media libraries face.
Group series episodes in per series (or even per season) folders and include a tvshow.nfo file with any IDs.
eg:
<episodeguide>{"tmdb":"328","imdb":"tt0983200","tvdb":"82616","tvrage":"7565","wikidata":"Q6805564"}</episodeguide> <id>82616</id> <imdbid>tt0983200</imdbid> <tmdbid>328</tmdbid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tmdb">328</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="imdb">tt0983200</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="true" type="tvdb">82616</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tvrage">7565</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="wikidata">Q6805564</uniqueid> <premiered>1989-05-08</premiered> is over kill for Media Watch https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/328-media-watch
which just leaves the issue of TheMovieDB being weak on metadata for that series .. but can be completed from theTVDB https://www.thetvdb.com/series/media-watch
In this instance the person with low media literacy would be the one that prefers a reframing of a raw PR over the source PR release.
Nothing of value has been added, the "article" simply perpetuates an illusion of journalism when merely rewording content handed out for the lazy to copy and the somewhat less lazy to shuffle about.
If you're interested in media litracy you might want to watch future and past episodes of Media Watch or equivilants from other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Watch_(TV_program)
Three decades of Media Watch has upped my media literacy game.
I feel I need to do a shout-out to the publication Crikey and the TV show Media Watch. They're two Australian pillars of telling hard truths around the actual situations (as opposed to the narrative that politics or other groups are attempting to push).
It's all well and good for the papers to be in support of press freedoms, but they've been all but silent on on-going prosecutions of non-journalist whistleblowers such as Witness K (and now his lawyer Bernard Collaery is being brought up on similar charges), and the fact that journalists and Doctors aren't allowed to visit offshore detention centres.
The same newspapers redacting their front pages are those that fawn over Australia's anti-science stance on Climate Change and anti-humanitarian immigration policies. They're pro-authoritarianism except when it comes to what they consider to be their little patch.
Crikey and Media Watch are of great value in exposing the hypocrisy of the majority of Australia's mainstream media.