Are daily COVID press conferences doing their job?

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Analysis: Is a news conference lasting for hours, much of it antagonistic between journalists and politicians, the best way to communicate public health messages? | liammannix

suggests leaders urge on the side of alarmism. But communication that lacks absolute accuracy risks undermining trust.At its most basic, a daily news conference allows journalists to scrutinise elected officials. This is important.

More fundamentally, how should the press balance scrutiny of health policy and communication of health policy?“Sometimes rather than asking performatively aggressive questions at the presser, reporters would be better off spending their time on the phone or even just reading publicly available documents,” she says.

“When we looked at the 10 leading media profiles in Australia in 2019 there wasn’t a single premier in the list. Last year there were four,” says Streem media analyst Conal Hanna.

 

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liammannix Might help if journalists knew enough science to understand the questions they were asking.

liammannix NOT asking the right questions TWO months ago was the media doing their job............badly

liammannix Transparency. The public have the right to know everything. Stop hiding underlying conditions & making excuses for hiding them. auspol

liammannix In short, no. The premiers have already made the pandemic too much about them. Anna even personally tweets out all covid information with her branding attached. It should be as apolotical as possible.

liammannix Due to media bias, Vic have no choice but to watch them and I'm very glad there is no plans to stop them.

liammannix Protection for Gladys, Attacks for Dan, ignored Jodi McKay. boycottfairfax

liammannix Depends on the quality of the leader. Gladys is hopeless. Andrews is superb

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