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.
Let’s all forget about 2007
Monday, 1 February 2010 Media analysis 11 comments
Hartcher is doing the same thing that Antony Green did in his piece in The Drum undermining current polling – belittling the significance of the 2007 election
In knots over nothing
Sunday, 11 November 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The campaign has become focused on exactly the issue that media commentators have said it needed to for the coalition to win, the economy, and it is a mess.
Maybe Keating was right after all
Thursday, 8 November 2007 Tactics Comments Off
Has the Mandarin lost control of his own campaign?
Rate rise re-writing
Friday, 26 October 2007 Media analysis Comments Off
It is not the government’s support that has been falling away this year but the media’s confidence in it’s survival.
The pretend campaign, and the real one
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The Liberals are less campaigning for government than their political survival.
The phoney real campaign
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
Media interest over when the PM will call the election seems to assume that something will change when he does.
Mood swings
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 Tactics Comments Off
Not as much has changed from 2004 as perhaps Labor likes to think.
Let’s all forget about 2004
Thursday, 23 August 2007 State of the parties Comments Off
Although Rudd is now re-making the ALP to make what will turn out to be a very different Labor government than what has gone before, so far the Labor party going to this election under Rudd is not really that different than the one that followed Latham. But the immediate news of this election will be to see exposed federally what has already happened in the states, the crisis of the Liberal party.
Politics is not just polls
Wednesday, 11 July 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The NT intervention has altered the dynamic of this campaign.
