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			<title>Ted Turner: the devil behind cable news</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>CNN didn&#8217;t just report the news. It turned news into an endless performance.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=23980</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 09:31:32 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dangers to the Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>More than half the world now has 'difficult' or worse press freedom conditions.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=23969</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2026 07:25:46 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Experiments in futility: Australia&#8217;s teenage social media ban approaches</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>As Australia moves to ban under-16s from major social platforms, teens, regulators and civil libertarians collide in a brewing legal and political battle over digital freedom.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2025 07:21:42 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dangerous edits: the BBC&#8217;s foolish gift to Donald Trump</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>The BBC&#8217;s &#8220;error of judgment&#8221; in editing Trump footage has handed his legal team new ammunition - and raised hard questions about trust, bias, and the future of public broadcasting.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:38:17 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Digging deeper on community radio: Triple R and indispensable airwaves</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>The streaming behemoths have created an odd sense of detachment, and certain listeners are seeking grassroot comforts that only community radio can provide.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:11:22 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Death by fungi: cashing in on Erin Patterson</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Binoy Kampmark)</author>
			<description>If attempting to kill four people using fungi is a symptom of average, female ordinariness, we all best start making our own meals.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:24:18 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The age of bullshit</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Steven Schwartz)</author>
			<description>In a world of 'frameworks', 'stakeholders', and 'outcomes' public language is losing its grip on meaning.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 07:12:17 +1000</pubDate>
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