Ross Coulthart

It's nonsense.

And I think we're driven largely by a pack mentality.

I think there are far too many accepted truisms in mainstream media.

Legacy media is shaming itself at the moment with its paucity of coverage and long form coverage.

investigation.

And all through my career, I've been really struck by the fact that when you take a contrarian position on things like, for example, global warming, I certainly believe in anthropogenic global warming.

I think humans are playing a role in the environment, but I think the level to which humans have played that role has been grossly overstated.

And I've done stories where I've looked at the science, the pure science of global warming and

And it's absolutely undoubtable that there is a lot of overstatement in the science.

There's become a kind of a zealotry in journalism to outdo each other, to talk about apocalyptic doom and gloom and to talk about the coming end of days.

And I don't think it's the media's role to essentially trump it.

What we're told by government or by so-called experts, I think our job is to basically question and probe and analyze.

And that's what the public want.

And sadly, I don't think much investigative journalism happens anymore in mainstream media.

It's increasingly moving on to journalism.

Shows like yours and mine, where essentially you have the forum of being able to talk for often hours at a time and ask hard questions.

And I'm quite proud of the fact that what seems to be happening in media at the moment is a lot of the major mastheads, the Sevens, Nine and Ten, ABC, they're all in terminal decline, frankly.

The big newspapers are quietly dying away as their advertising revenue dwindles.

And the only way really to fund long-form investigative journalism anymore is to do what gets bums on seats, which is going online and doing podcasts.

And that's what I've discovered.