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Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment. 🗞 📺Mon 9.15pm on ABCTV. An official @ABCaustralia account. [email protected]
Joined March 2009
2GB fluffs up a scandal about children dressing up as animals. But are there any facts to substantiate the furore?. #MediaWatch
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“I have seen some rubbish in my time but the Herald Sun’s campaign coverage last week really does take the cake. It’s no wonder that a recent Roy Morgan survey found News Corp to be Australia’s most distrusted media brand.”
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“Now, we’re certainly not saying that independent candidates and Climate 200 should be immune from scrutiny. But when news reporters and columnists of one of the country’s most powerful media groups echo the Liberal Party’s concerted attack on them, something is very wrong.”
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We are pleased to announce that Jeremy Fernandez will be presenting Media Watch this week while we find a longer term fill in. It looks like Paul Barry will be off for around four weeks. Thanks for all the kind and supportive words we have received for him. #MediaWatch
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“It was shameful for the Coalition government, its ministers and their minders. But also, in my view, for many in the media, who were used by the government to run propaganda and discredit victims.” #MediaWatch
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“Over the years I have hosted Media Watch, several executives have wanted me sacked. But they left and I survived. As did the program. And I need to thank the ABC for that. It’s remarkable that any broadcaster tolerates a program that rips into it as we have done.” #MediaWatch
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“But the question for us is: is it good journalism? And in my view the answer is no. It’s cheap and nasty. And it’s done with one intent — to catch the leader out. It’s no wonder so many of the public hate the media.” #MediaWatch
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Sky News Sharri Markson’s exclusive vision of the Baltimore bridge collapse revealed to be fake news. #MediaBites #MediaWatch
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“It was shameful for the Coalition government, its ministers and their minders. But also, in my view, for many in the media, who were used by the government to run propaganda and discredit victims.”. Our story on Robodebt 'friendly media' from February #MediaWatch
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Why the media won't touch the Barilaro tapes👇. “. the New South Wales law allows for no public interest defence, so the ABC won’t let us broadcast it, even though you can listen to it in full online.” #MediaWatch
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“Rarely has there been such an all-out campaign against a sitting premier. And rarely has it looked so out of touch …. And therein lies the message for media outlets who ditch election coverage for election campaigning: voters aren't listening to you.”
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“The sad truth is that when a woman is killed by her partner her death has a much better chance of being branded a national disgrace if she is young, good looking and white. And that in itself is also a national disgrace.” #MediaWatch
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“Foxtel, not the ABC, commissioned the series, and … was responsible for the fact-checking process. The very same Foxtel, majority owned by News Corp, that puts people like Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean to air on Sky News, with little or no fact-checking to speak of.” #MediaWatch
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“For you to be even asking that question is an indictment on your level of journalism.”. John Barilaro fires up at @SkyNewsAust’s Tom Connell @tomwconnell for asking about the arrest of @friendlyjordies producer.
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Chris Kenny interviews a pilot who claims to be stranded in Perth. The problem? He’s not a pilot, his name isn’t Dean and he appears to be living with his family in Melbourne. #MediaWatch
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Hey Australian journos: have you had your work ripped off by the Daily Mail? We want strong examples to take them on. DM or email: mediawatch@abc.net.au. #MediaWatch.
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“The day after the story broke, the Nine papers and News Corp tabloids ran page after page after page of ads for Harvey Norman and Domayne. Yet none could find space for news of the court decision…”.#MediaWatch
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“Al Jazeera and Anadolu both covered Hassan Hamad’s death. As did several pro-Palestinian sites. But there has been little or nothing in the mainstream media which is remarkable. Are we now so hardened to journalists being targeted?” . #MediaWatch
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Ten’s The Project apologises for airing wrong protest footage, mischaracterising Sunday’s largely peaceful pro-Palestinian protest as a violent demonstration. #MediaBites #MediaWatch
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Kim Williams’ conduct will be seen by many as a serious breach not just of the trust of his staff but of the organisation’s integrity. #MediaWatch
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“It’s a clearcut case of chequebook journalism. And all the more grubby because of who the money was paid to and Seven’s dishonest denial.” #MediaWatch
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Palaszczuk @AnnastaciaMP snaps at Seven’s @Bianca_Stone: . “Well I’m not going to answer people who are being rude … You are being very rude”. #MediaWatch
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“We wonder how the ABC can justify having a dedicated news channel if it can’t do better on breaking stories like this.” #MediaWatch
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“It’s not just social media which is to blame for spreading division. The UK tabloids have long been whipping up anger against immigrants, asylum seekers and Muslims. Fanning fear, breeding hate, and now leading to violence.”.#MediaWatch
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The ABC reporter made redundant following a tense relationship with management over two articles on corporate tax in 2018. ". it sends a bad message to ABC viewers and ABC journalists.".#MediaWatch
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“It’s difficult to find words to describe this appalling conduct by The Telegraph … Instead of a page one scoop, Sydney’s 145-year-old tabloid newspaper has inscribed into its own annals one of its most grubby episodes.”. #MediaWatch
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“The government's ban on social media for teenagers, which looks set to become law this week, is something no one in the world has ever achieved — with experts saying it just won’t work. So why has there been so little pushback from the media?”.#MediaWatch
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"Having made the decision to hire her the ABC then owed Antionette Lattouf a fair go. Instead, it hung her out to dry." #MediaWatch
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“So why did the media get it wrong and fall for the government’s spin? Incompetence, bias or a mixture of both?”. Media fail the public by erroneously labelling the Sydney train ‘shutdown’ a ‘strike.’ #MediaWatch
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“But it’s one thing for Sky News to indulge in its orchestrated slap down of Rudd, it’s another for the rest of the media to cheer it on.” #MediaWatch
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“If it wasn’t so serious, this hypocrisy would be hilarious. But in fact News Corp has helped delay real action on climate change for well over a decade.” #MediaWatch
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“What is the point of a watchdog, with a chair paid more than half a million dollars a year, if it has no bite?. And why hasn’t the ACMA started its own investigation into Kyle & Jackie O’s latest outrage? …”. #MediaWatch
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Morrison and @aclennell clash at presser:. "Let's not all of us who sit in glass houses here start getting into that" . #MediaWatch #auspol
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“Sky News of course was around in 2000 when I first hosted Media Watch. But since News Corp took full control in 2016 it has become more and more like America’s Fox News with a primetime lineup of right-wing barkers… “. #MediaWatch
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“Dr Abramovich, 3AW and the Herald Sun need to fess up to their mistake and apologise for spreading fake news.’ #MediaWatch
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BREAKING NOW🚨. ABC wins defamation case against Peter V’landys over a @abc730 special investigation into horse racing, with the Federal Court dismissing the application with costs #MediaWatch.
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From today’s media diversity inquiry:. An exchange between @MrKRudd and @VanSenate on character assassination in the media:. via @SkyNewsAust #MediaWatch
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3AW and The Herald Sun fail to apologise after incorrectly claiming a Hamas flag was flown in Melbourne and claiming it was a ‘declaration of war’.
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“But did Labor even order these new RAAF jets? Well, no, because that was done by Scott Morrison’s government… But that fact was completely forgotten or conveniently ignored in all the Airbus Albo outrage.” #MediaWatch
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“If reporters like Leila can keep bearing witness to civilian deaths and destruction, will it make a difference? . Will this shocking first-hand reporting galvanise the public and politicians or bring justice if war crimes have been committed?”.#MediaWatch
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“So, just another Herald Sun beat-up, days ahead of an election which Dan Andrews won in a landslide. And a story the Press Council was right to slap down as misleading and unfair. Making it the sixth adjudication to go against a News Corp masthead in the last six months.”
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… but also, @AlanJones has a long history of attacking women, a brutal advertising boycott, his role in the Cronulla riots and the dark side of his political and corporate influence. Just some of the issues Media Watch has exposed over Jones’ career: (1/6).
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Chris Uhlmann joins Sky News after previously labelling conservative commentators on the network, ‘among the biggest bullies in the land’ .#MediaBites #MediaWatch
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Do the victims of the Israel Gaza war receive equal treatment in the press? Our analysis of three newspapers finds a bias towards Israeli victims over Palestinian.
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Hey @DailyMailAU - your APEX gang pic is actually a UK rap band. Which we also we told you about last November. #mediawatch
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“… we’ve had newspaper bullies like Murdoch, Hearst and Beaverbrook meddling in politics and acting as kingmakers. And now, for the first time, a social media mogul is doing it too …” #MediaWatch
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The holy war against the ABC. “Shocking stuff, indeed. But no doubt Michael Kroger, Paul Murray, Pauline Hanson, Graham Richardson and Barnaby Joyce will all apologise for their stupid mistake this week.” #MediaWatch
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“But the huge pile onto Musk over the stabbing has at times been lazy and unfair.”. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner issues a global takedown order of the Wakeley church attack video, sparking a legal challenge by @elonmusk
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“The big Australian newspapers we looked at have failed to cover the Gaza conflict fairly, in terms of giving equal weight to the victims on each side, with the Nine papers not too bad, but The Australian failing in spectacular fashion.” #MediaWatch
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“Well, the Coalition’s huge loss was also a smack in the face for the Murdochs, whose big-city tabloids did their utmost to get ScoMo home …”. #MediaWatch #auspol
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“Hilarious, eh? Or perhaps pathetic. But also remarkable that sections of the media should give Bishop a free pass and treat her as a newly-minted celebrity with no political past.” #MediaWatch
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“… what an irresponsible media scare that was, creating outrage and confusion for no reason.”. Confected media outrage about the use of ticks and crosses to mark the referendum ballot paper.
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“It seems that Gleeson is a serial offender. We asked News Corp if it had been aware of these two new instances of plagiarism. We got no answer.”
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Two online political polls about Victoria’s lockdown are hit by a surge of fake votes leading Nine to takedown the polls. #MediaWatch
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“The Committee to Protect Journalists says the Gaza war has been the “deadliest period for journalists” since it began gathering data in 1992. And it says every time a journalist: “… is killed. we lose fragments of the truth.”” #MediaWatch
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Sky News Australia called out by French fact checkers for claiming a pro-Palestinian rally is a French election victory celebration. #MediaBites #MediaWatch
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“With this week’s Newspoll showing 62 per cent support the tax changes and believe the PM did the right thing. Yet, it was Labor’s breach of political faith that the media wanted to run hard on.” #MediaWatch
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“So, Melbourne, have you been listening?. Answer no. With the show recording a meagre 5.9 per cent share of the audience in the latest survey, leaving Kyle and Jackie O in eighth spot in their time slot.” #MediaWatch
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“That’s 2GB’s Ben Fordham expressing alarm over a violent video from the Top End which he posted on X…. But it doesn’t take long to discover it’s not true…. So, why did Fordham and co assume this had all just happened? . Simply because nobody checked…” #MediaWatch
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X owner Elon Musk is increasingly using his platform to spread misinformation and inflame social division. Can governments and regulators tame the erratic media mogul?
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NSW Bushfire Inquiry dismisses arson as a key factor in the catastrophic NSW bushfire season, debunking a popular media narrative during the 2020 coverage. #MediaWatch
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Rupert Murdoch’s $100 million gamble on TV host Piers Morgan is proving costly. #MediaWatch
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We’d like to welcome Janine Perrett @PerrettReport who’ll be hosting Media Watch next week. Janine comes with 40 plus years in journalism, including roles with Channel Nine, Sydney Morning Herald, Sky News, The Australian and Crikey. Tune in at 9.30 Monday night on @abctv.
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Thanks to everyone wishing @TheRealPBarry well after his accident ♥️. Rest assured Media Watch will still be going to air on Monday with a guest presenter. Watch this space for updates #MediaWatch.
An ABC host tweeted a picture from his hospital bed, detailing his horrible injuries after he was hit by a car while riding his bike.
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“For more than 600 episodes a wonderfully droll Tim Bowden dished up the brickbats and bouquets …. Tim was a fine journalist and a lovely man. We’ll miss him.”. #MediaWatch
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We examine how News Corp’s loudest voices denied or downplayed the role of climate change. #MediaWatch. Watch the full report on our website:.
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“In a debate where both sides accuse the other of extremism, it’s the media’s duty to be an honest broker, treat both sides with respect, and not be scared into silence.” #MediaWatch
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“. that News Corp ‘Bush Summit’ travelled right around the country, with a shindig in each state, for the city tabloids to swoon over. And Dr Rinehart, as she is now known, was the star act. No doubt because she paid for it — or most of it …”. #MediaWatch
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“So what did go down in Amsterdam? And how should the media have reported it? . Certainly, better than they did because two angry mobs were involved — with violence on both sides — and while antisemitism was an ingredient, the claims of a Nazi pogrom were ridiculous.”
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How The Oz's headline writer got it so wrong .#MediaWatch.
News Limited better lawyer up. I suspect @jonathanvswan will think it’s defamatory to have the photo of whoever that ugly old bloke is associated with his name. I am of course not referring to Kenny who’s a fine figure of a man and so young looking for his age.
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“There’s also no evidence — according to the experts — that surveying and building offshore wind farms is causing whales to die …. But will that stop the media spreading the fears? I think you know the answer to that.” #MediaWatch
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Harvey Norman is the media’s leading advertiser so is it any wonder that a damning Federal Court ruling over one of its credit cards got scant coverage.
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A look at some of the prolific accounts behind the #DictatorDan and #DanLiedPeopleDied campaign. What is real and what is fake? #MediaWatch
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“So even when Morrison got direct questions he did not give direct answers …. So was it the media’s fault? No, Mr Morrison. It was yours.”. Scott Morrison criticises the media for not questioning him over his secret ministerial appointments.
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Daniel Andrews defies the media critics, securing a third term as Victorian Premier.
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“So, all in all, a fascinating story and one everyone in the media would surely want to cover …. But the Coalition’s media supporters have typically dismissed, trivialised or undermined the claims.” #MediaWatch
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“The ABC Ombudsman has delivered its findings. And while it finds Macca’s program did not breach impartiality standards … . It makes it clear the program would have been in breach had Holmes à Court not called in to dispute Smith and Macca’s claims…”.#MediaWatch
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Tonight on #MediaWatch:. 👋 Paul Barry’s last hoorah 👋. After eleven and half years in the Media Watch chair it’s time to say goodbye. 📺 9.30 ABC TV + iview
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One Nation called “… bumbling, idiotic, self-obsessed . nongs,” as their US gun lobby saga unfolds. #MediaWatch #MediaBites #auspol #HowToSellAMassacre
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“2500 reef scientists from all around the world say the Great Barrier Reef is facing mortal threat from climate change, Peter Ridd says it’s not. And who does The Australian and Sky After Dark prefer to showcase?” #MediaWatch
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“How any ABC reporter can voice a commercial for one of the biggest brands in Australia and not think that is a conflict is beyond us.” #MediaWatch
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“Do the media have no shame? Or simply no idea? ���. Not long ago, the media were fixed on Labor’s debt and deficit disaster. But now — with debt and deficits much higher — that urgency seems to have vanished.” #MediaWatch
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Coming up on #MediaWatch:. 🔴 Israel airstrike kills 3 journalists in Lebanon. Why is a media compound not safe?. 📺 9.15 ABC TV + iview
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'Royal experts' exposed as global media react to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's ‘bombshell’ interview with Oprah. #MediaWatch
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“They got the very house they wanted! Which, we’ve discovered, was no fluke. Because – are you sitting down – it was their home all along…” #MediaWatch
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Not secret, not modelling and not from the Victorian government. The Australian’s dodgy COVID ‘exclusive’. #Media Watch
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“Now it may be that the ABC is planning to replace Sarah Macdonald with someone the audience will like — but as Hadley told 2GB listeners, that person will wanna be good …. And sadly, however good they are, it is still a PR disaster for the ABC…”.#MediaWatch
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“When Seven eventually let him go — nine months after treating himself and, allegedly, Lehrmann to a rub on company money — he was given a glowing reference by Seven and snapped up by Sky News to be its ‘investigations producer.'" #MediaWatch
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“So why is Basil Zempilas a favourite of the Seven empire? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that for the past 30 years, barnstorming Basil has been a loyal employee of none other than Seven West Media. ". #MediaWatch
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“Well, we believe it is relevant now. And if the ABC is convinced it’s not, perhaps it should run an article explaining why that is so.”. #MediaWatch
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