Book review: Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
Friday, 28 October 2011 Media analysis 7 comments
Far from wishing to undermine it, the Australian media is joined at the hip to the current political system and is getting caught up in its problems.
Ideology and lunatics
Wednesday, 27 July 2011 Media analysis 43 comments
Whatever madmen do, no matter how horrific, has no political meaning. End of story.
Rats get caught in the same mess – London edition
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 Media analysis 40 comments
Wikileaks’ very inability to differentiate illustrates, it’s not that such press freedom really means that much these days anyway.
Ad Watch – Say Yes Australia
Thursday, 2 June 2011 Media analysis 24 comments
At least Murdoch recognises a political fight when he sees it.
Where the problem lies
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Media analysis 15 comments
Tanner and Megalogenis may take pot shots across the media-political divide but ultimately it comes down to voters as the problem.
Review: George Megalogenis’s Trivial Pursuit
Thursday, 10 February 2011 Media analysis, State of the parties 10 comments
Megalogenis may lament the passing of reform, and the privileged role the media had in it, even if he cannot quite put his finger on what it was.
Book review: Barrie Cassidy’s The Party Thieves
Friday, 31 December 2010 Media analysis 29 comments
Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as press secretary for Bob Hawke, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack.
We’re all journalists now
Monday, 20 December 2010 Media analysis 11 comments
Calls to support Wikileaks and uphold the public’s need to get access to information is a moot point, because there is little sign of anything that would know what to do with it.
Ozileaks
Friday, 10 December 2010 Media analysis 7 comments
Like the US State Department, the press were being fed by Labor power brokers.
Labor signs away its left
Saturday, 30 October 2010 Media analysis, State of the parties 19 comments
Something unusual is happening. Labor is not getting the boost that usually comes to parties after being endorsed in an election.
