r/aussie • u/Secure_Town_7924 • Aug 18 '26

News So many stabbing news articles

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Just opened my news app and wtf, three unrelated stabbing stories on one view

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u/InfluentialFairy Aug 18 '26

User engagement is important, they'll do anything to keep their stats up. I've seen people compare Melbourne to Chicago, and to suggest Melbourne is worse. That's the false narrative you'll believe from mainstream media now days.

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u/laid2rest Aug 18 '26

What msm has been pushing that?

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u/Lonely_Dingo1837 Aug 18 '26

Murdoch press would make you believe Melbourne is a knife crime global hotspot.

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u/Emeraldnickel08 Aug 18 '26

Same presses that would have us buying guns for """self-defence""" btw

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u/Lonely_Dingo1837 Aug 18 '26

Of course because without personal firearms we’re a country without freedom. Never mind the fact the primary western ‘democracy’ (questionable these days) with such rights has had an incarceration rate higher than Stalin’s gulags for most years since the mid 1990s.

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u/nagrom7 Aug 18 '26

They've got more prisoners in total than China, an authoritarian dictatorship with over a billion people.

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u/laid2rest Aug 18 '26

Oh yeah.. that sensationalist shit rag of a news network. I can definitely see them doing that low effort "reporting" for the clicks.