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.
Book review: Paul Howes’s Confessions of a Faceless Man
Monday, 21 February 2011 Political figures, State of the parties, Tactics 21 comments
Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?
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.
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.
Rats get caught in the same mess
Tuesday, 14 September 2010 Media analysis 41 comments
The press are hardly blameless, but is the standard of reporting really deteriorating faster than the politics it’s covering?
Becalmed, and adrift
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 State of the parties, Tactics 20 comments
Take your pick on the past you prefer.
Insecurities to the fore!
Friday, 9 July 2010 Media analysis, State of the parties 16 comments
The East Timor political class may have its problems, but compared to ours they are now looking cool enough to leave it swinging in the breeze.
Let’s all forget 2007 – ALP edition
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 Tactics, The Australian state 28 comments
Gillard claims to want to move away from political correctness on asylum seekers, but in fact her entire approach to the issue shares the assumption of the politically correct left; namely that concerns about it are such a powerful inflammatory force in the electorate that it must be indulged and made a big deal of.
The most important Newspoll ever
Monday, 21 June 2010 State of the parties 4 comments
As Labor’s base melts away, so does its program.
