Introduction
The issue of trust is Australian media has a lot of variation, although most Australians trust their media. The biggest role for which Australians trust their media is holding the government to account. 60% of the Australians believe that the media plays its role of holding the government to account in an effective manner (Keane, 2013a). However, many Australians also lack trust in the media, and one of the reasons for distrusting the media is the emergence of commercialization in the media. Commercialization involves the media publishing information that lacks truth for the sake of gaining popularity. Keane (2013 Continue reading...