Media
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The ABC must not let itself be bossed around. End of story
The ABC is not just another government department. A Senate inquiry into its complaints process cannot be allowed to happen. Continue reading »
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What the Asian media are saying: ASEAN, China powers up EVs, Japan’s inequality
Our US/UK centric media largely ignores Asia. But important and interesting things are happening- Cambodia will host ASEAN later this month, security between China and the US, and a spicy controversy in Korea. Continue reading »
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Paul Keating’s speech is a teaching moment in a fraught relationship with China
Former prime minister Paul Keating’s National Press Club address showed just how badly awry Australia’s policies on Asia have gone. Continue reading »
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Journalism needs more than better protection, it needs better standards
Nearly a decade since two separate reviews recommended an overhaul of media regulation, neither recommendation has been implemented. Continue reading »
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Do the ABC’s journalistic standards matter? That’s a leading question!
The ABC’s integrity could be undermined if its journalists continue to use interview techniques that allow those in power to avoid accountability. Continue reading »
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What Asian media are saying about COP26
In the Asian media, COP26 isn’t all about net zero plans and phasing out coal — our region is just as concerned with the potential potholes. Continue reading »
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Four Corners v Julian Assange: your ABC, their sneers
Who could imagine that a revered current affairs program could stoop to peddling slanderous allegations against an award-winning Australian journalist? Continue reading »
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The media hides the information we need about Julian Assange
Our mainstream media have treated Julian Assange as the bad guy for over a decade. Which is where the virus again raises its ugly head. Continue reading »
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Expect to hear from Ita Buttrose as ABC faces uncertain funding future
It’s our ABC, but the national broadcaster remains at the whims of the government of the day, which headed by Scott Morrison is a long way from the friendly camp. Continue reading »
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The debate about our ABC needs grown-ups in the room
The national broadcaster requires structural and funding reform — but these changes must follow informed discussion and cannot be decided on a tribal battleground. Continue reading »
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Murdoch’s climate denialists must bear heavy responsibility for national failure
The insistence of denialists at The Australian that the 2050 emissions targets are beyond the world’s reach is damaging and flies in the face of science and technological progress. Continue reading »
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Australian media fails to challenge Israel lobby: Review of Dateline Jerusalem
The Australian mainstream media have been bullied into submission by the Israel lobby, considered at home to be the most effective in the world. Continue reading »
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News Corp’s climate pivot perpetrates a new fraud and draws us closer to climate catastrophe
Not only does News Corp’s new climate change campaign come after years of spreading climate misinformation, it is also simply replacing its last fraud with another. Continue reading »
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Nobel Peace Prize recipients Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have some lessons for Australia
Australian journalists should try imitating the extreme courage of Nobel Peace Price winners Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov — justice needs to be done on many issues. Continue reading »
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The plot to murder Julian Assange is being ignored by the mainstream media
The US government reportedly planned to kidnap and murder Julian Assange. And yet the Australian commentariat and media are silent. Why? Continue reading »
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Crossword clues and bullying: the almighty power of the Australian pro-Israel lobby
The influence of Colin Rubenstein and his lobby group does not just limit what mainstream media outlets dare publish, it forces self-censorship on editors and journalists alike, writes John Lyons in his latest book. Continue reading »
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Distracted by the submarine bauble, Labor and the media miss the point
Australia is about to become home to American bases, and potentially a nuclear target, and this seems to have escaped the attention of the Opposition and the media. Continue reading »
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Beware internet defamation: Australian law’s worrying turn
An Australian defamation court case has made it a whole lot more risky for publishers — or anyone, for that matter — to allow third-party comments on their social media pages. Continue reading »
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Why journalists have a trust problem
If there was a time when journalists had great credibility with audiences, it’s less so today. In this speech delivered to a university media seminar, The Sydney Morning Herald‘s economics editor Ross Gittins explores why. Continue reading »
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When politics fail: The folly in under-funding the ABC’s international services
The ABC is under such constant pressure and threats from government (as well as relentless attacks from hostile media and other organisations such as the IPA), it’s not surprising that public attention is almost exclusively on the domestic service. Continue reading »
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News Corp opts for a bet each way on climate change
News Corp’s climate change campaign allows the company to shift its public without being committed to much at all. Continue reading »
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The White Man’s Media must be challenged in the post western world
When a news network based in India or a newspaper based in Nigeria or Hong Kong can be held in the same high regard as The New York Times or the Financial Times, we will know that we have succeeded in eradicating global white privilege in the media. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media-Why cleaning up the government and media is women’s work
We let powerful global institutions control the narrative, and it’s up to women to put a stop to it. Continue reading »
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Conservative media undermine successful pandemic policy in NZ
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great pain not only for those suffering and dying from the infection. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media. A short history
Is White Man’s Media fair? Or is White Man’s Media coloured by its own prejudices? Continue reading »
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The Age demeans itself as well as the Victorian public health team
The most disturbing aspect of The Age’s disappointing editorial yesterday is its undermining of the state’s public health messaging and compliance efforts. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media: Asia’s a place you fly over
By ignoring Asia, the Australian media is contributing towards the creation of more insular and parochial but less understanding country. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media: How the Western media hegemony operates
In a formal democracy, particularly one with a global empire to uphold, public opinion is too important to be left to the people to think for themselves. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media: it’s the white person’s media
The media thunders forth from its citadel of truth against the infidels. Those chosen to comment on things Chinese are seldom people who have worked in China but hawks who spout the conservative line Continue reading »
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute rorts Wikipedia
In an important but shocking article in Michael West Media (MWM) on 21 August, journalist Marcus Reubenstein has exposed a pernicious practice by which supporters of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) have assiduously removed all negative criticism of ASPI from Wikipedia’s ASPI page, and added fawning praise of ASPI which renders the page, in Continue reading »