Media
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In Asian media: Sri Lanka crisis gets worse by the day
Sri Lanka crisis gets worse by the day Plus: Assault scandal unfolds in Thailand; moral leadership on Ukraine; Singapore to get new leader – sometime; the greying nation. Continue reading »
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Western media have failed dismally in reporting the Ukraine war
While Western news agencies and media have been falling over each other in the rush to cover the Ukrainian side of the story the Russian side of the story has been ignored. Continue reading »
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Citizen Murdoch and Albanese
First came the puff piece in ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly’ and then the softball profile on ‘Sixty Minutes.’ One could sense Citizen Murdoch and his editors would be observing that Albanese was beginning to look a winner, and Morrison more clueless by the day. Continue reading »
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Brett Wilkins: The US arms industry, Ukraine and the media
“The people who have the most interest in influencing the direction of the media coverage of the Ukraine War are weapons-makers.” Continue reading »
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Election 2022: The journalists’ delight and the avoidance of policy
Now that the election has been called journalists-and not just those locked in the Canberra bubble–will be salivating with anticipation over what will happen over the next six weeks: all the gotcha moments, all the dirt, the denials, the photographic moments. Everything but the detailed policy statements. Continue reading »
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A sociology of Q&A: what is addressed, what is missed?
Branded as the occasion when the public asks questions and a panel of experts give answers, ABC televisions’ Q&A misses an opportunity to inform let alone inspire their audience. Continue reading »
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Labor will never appease Murdoch, and should stop trying
News.com is never shy about claiming all of the power and influence that its mortal enemies fear it has. Continue reading »
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Labor scared of the shadow of a Murdoch paper tiger
I think the power of the ranting media – News.com in particular – is on the decline. Continue reading »
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Jonathan Holmes: In real terms the ABC is still going backwards
Dave Sharma, the Liberal federal member for Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, is fighting for his political survival against independent candidate Allegra Spender, who supports a well-funded ABC. Continue reading »
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Greg Wilesmith: Who Needs the ABC? A book review
Why taking the ABC for granted is no longer an option. Continue reading »
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In Asian Media: Imran Khan hits turbulent point in Pakistan politics
In Asia Media: Blinken draws an admission from Myanmar; US has big problem in India; food security a looming concern; South Korea logs a sad COVID record; and HK food goes back to basics Continue reading »
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The wars our media would rather we forget
What is the basis of the double standards exhibited by the media? The cone of silence about the plight of the wretched of the earth in forgotten war theatres is underpinned by a maze of strategic and financial considerations. Continue reading »
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A tale of two hospitals in Iraq and Ukraine
Until lions have their own historians, their history will be that of the hunters Continue reading »
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What has gone wrong with Australian journalism’s commitment to free speech?
The decision of the National Press Club to withdraw the invitation to the Russian Ambassador to speak at the club is the latest move taking Australia to a new low in lack of commitment to free speech. Continue reading »
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Asian Media – New South Korea president closer to U.S., Japan
“Ugliest” South Korean presidential election, remembering Myanmar, Xi’s virtual tip-off and racial profiling of scientists in America Continue reading »
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The ABC’S Fog of War on Ukraine
The ABC war correspondents had a rich canvas to paint their stories. Yet they got nowhere near the scent of truth. Continue reading »
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Ross Tapsell – Australia’s Anglo-focussed Covid news coverage
Australian media continues to see itself as overwhelmingly tied to the events, policies and fortunes of those in the United States and the United Kingdom. Continue reading »
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Jeff Cohen So this is what it looks like when the Corporate Media opposes a war
Major American media outlets oppose military aggression… unless the United States is doing it. Continue reading »
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Scare-mongering on China is a threat to our democracy and responsible media must guard against it
There is a great deal more at stake than national security in Scott Morrison’s hyper-partisan and grossly dishonest accusation that Anthony Albanese and his deputy, Richard Marles, are carrying the hopes of the Chinese regime at the forthcoming election. Continue reading »
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China, the US and Nixon’s legacy
In Asian media this week: Nixon, Mao and the Taiwan question; Dutch apology for violence in colonial Indonesia; HK battling to get to COVID-zero; no room for losers in Beijing 2022; and women beating men in Japan Continue reading »
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ABC Managing Director David Anderson has released an important and ground-breaking essay on the ABC and its future.
Now More than Ever: Australia’s ABC (Monash University Publishing) is a passionate and well-argued cri de coeur from a man who has devoted his working life to the public broadcaster, from the mail room to the top office. Continue reading »
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Changes at Pearls & Irritations
From Tuesday 15 February Michael West Media and Pearls & Irritations will be going separate ways. Continue reading »
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The drums of war that are heard so loudly in Canberra beat rather more softly in Asia.
As the Winter Olympics started, China and Russia spelled out how close they have come and Australian media slipped into their default attack mode. But not so in Asia, where the media response was more varied and more muted. Continue reading »
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Cry havoc: US and UK leaders trying to con Europeans into war in Ukraine
Anglosphere media are uncritically regurgitating Washington and Downing Street propaganda and failing to recount actual Russian-Ukrainian history. Continue reading »
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Australia is more corrupt than ever, but the media stays quiet
Australia has a deteriorating global corruption ranking — and the mainstream media is ignoring it entirely. Continue reading »
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Multicultural Australia? How the mainstream media segregates us
Major media organisations have marginalised ethnic communities — for example, the Chinese community is seen through the prism of “foreign influence”. Continue reading »
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In the Asian media: worrying population numbers for China
Elsewhere, a diplomatic rift ends, the blind spot in the climate change debate, an anti-corruption mystery, and insects on the menu. Continue reading »
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The Morrison government seeks to punish the ABC for doing its job
Governments around the world are targeting public broadcasters for daring to hold the powerful to account – the Coalition here is no exception. Continue reading »
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The Australian’s non-exclusive ‘exclusive’ first published by P&I
When is an exclusive not an exclusive? When it runs in The Australian. Pearls and Irritations had the real Paul Keating exclusive over the weekend. Continue reading »
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Big Media’s diet of deceit and diversions
A small group of elites determines what ordinary people do not see or hear. Continue reading »
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