Darwin is poorly served by reporters (not journalists) working at the only paper (not newspaper) on clickbait churnalism. Not NT, not news. Every other media outlet in town follows the only daily paper, leaving locals with a diminishing pool of real news in a sea of nonsense cut-n-paste clickbait churnalism, designed to satisfy the juvenile short attention span of lazy online readers, while ignoring the fourth estate's responsibilities inherent in their privileged role in society.

American mogul Rupert Murdoch presides over a media empire that has undue influence and control over Australian media. This influence and control has been abused to reduce the fourth estate in Darwin to a pitiful semblence of news, that reflects badly on the esteme to which other tabloid journalism once aspired. The paper, while endorsing the war-and-pollution agenda of its owner's adopted USA home, trivialises real local issues, actively seeks to nurture racist hatred and class division in the local community, and drowns any useful information in a sea of trivia cut and paste from the dullest dives of the internet.