Pat Wright

That's a really good question.

I think if we go back to kind of what I was saying before, often I'll think about, you know, the business model of the publication when I'm reading something.

I'm thinking, like, how do they make money?

How does this influence what they might commission or who they might feature on their platform?

But also, like personally as a journalist, I'm often thinking when I kind of, the people I interview, like what are they, like what perspectives are they going to bring?

And it's not like you can kind of remove all bias from stories because like if you're talking about the example you used about some people might prefer property investment as to other people might prefer investment in the share market.

I think what you do as a journalist is to try to find both of those perspectives or it might not even be in the same article, but it might be one of the things we do at the ABC is we talk about doing balance over time.

So if we kind of have a story that might talk about one perspective, then maybe in a different story we'll do one, you know, taking a different view or looking at a different, you know, approach.

And I guess the other thing is we can't get everything in an 800-word article or 1,000 words.

So there are going to be things that don't get into the articles or the content.

But yeah, I do think like some of it is pretty, you know, it's just about common sense.

So if you're talking about like a mortgage broker who's talking about refinancing homes,

Someone whose business is to, you know, they get paid on commissions usually to, of course, they're going to be telling people to refinance their home.

And that's something, you know, doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad advice.

It's just that it's like the barber telling you, you know, you need a haircut.

It's like you kind of discount that a little bit and you might think about someone who might not have skin in the game who, you know, might, you know, they might offer a different perspective.

I can tell you one story, which is something we published a piece about this recently.

And we were looking at some stories around cryptocurrency.

And obviously, if you look at, once you start looking into people who are studying on crypto, there's a lot of stories about people being scammed in various ways.

And I don't think it's like the scams aren't even really about crypto.