{"podcast":{"title":"We Used to be Journos","slug":"we-used-to-be-journos-7394133","podcast_index_feed_id":7394133,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/we-used-to-be-journos","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a/1751505615853-67cfacfc-636e-425d-b032-ec78908b1150.jpeg","author":"Ette Media","episode_count":83,"summary":"We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) We also break down broken news. Episodes drop Wednesday and Saturday. Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, We Used to Be Journos pulls apart the week in media from people who know exactly how the machine runs because they worked inside it for decades. Every Wednesday, the pair sift through the headlines you saw and the forces you did not. Expect blunt media analysis, zooming in on dodgy editorial calls, anonymous sources doing gymnastics, and the occasional whiff of bigotry dressed up as balance. Consider it a guided tour of the newsroom sausage factory so you know what ended up on your plate. On Saturdays, the spin-off segment Only Jan hands the microphone to Walkley Award winner Jan Fran. One issue, one sharp monologue, foresincally researched, tightly argued, and, inconveniently for the powerful, quite funny. Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here . If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here. Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acas…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T18:19:21.304938+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133"},"episode":{"title":"ONLY FRAN: The online bots backing One Nation","slug":"only-fran-the-online-bots-backing-one-nation","published_at":"2026-07-03T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/only-fran-the-online-bots-backing-one-nation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133","url":"https://shows.acast.com/we-used-to-be-journos/episodes/only-fran-the-online-bots-backing-one-nation","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a/e/6a47b4bbbf6c02d54c78970f/media.mp3","summary":"If you think Pauline Hanson is popular in real life you should see how popular she is online. Pages have sprung up all over Facebook this year in support of One Nation. One small problem - they’re run out of Indonesia and half the stuff they post isn’t real! It’s AI slop yet one post by one page can rack up thousands of reactions from genuine Australian accounts.  Jan Fran asks whether Pauline’s Hanson is really as popular online as she seems to be or if there are other factors at play and what this means for her popularity IRL.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"If you think Pauline Hanson is popular in real life you should see how popular she is online. Pages have sprung up all over Facebook this year in support…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":983,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/episodes/only-fran-the-online-bots-backing-one-nation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/only-fran-the-online-bots-backing-one-nation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}