Low rating news and opinion channel, Sky News Australia, has anointed alleged racist, Peter Dutton, as the white man to lead Australia. ”Enough of this Albanese chap,” said Sky News’ only reporter to be found guilty of breaching the racial... Read More ›
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Dan Wootton, Beverley Turner, David Vance have posted the disclaimer which legal experts have said offers no protection from the law
The challenge we face with digital technology is not just managing it; it’s about what it’s doing to us. As of 15 August 2024, mobile phones have been banned in public schools across Australia. Anecdotally, most think this is a good idea. Then, last Monday, the ABC’s Q&A had a sensible debate on controlling digital Continue reading »
The call for Bisan Owda’s nomination to be rescinded was “an incredible testament to the threat posed by a single young woman with an iPhone,” said one author. The head of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which nominated Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda for an Emmy Award for her documentary on life under Continue reading »
ABC chair Kim Williams reckons the Corporation should focus more on hard news than lifestyle fillers. While purging the pap, he might also look at how some stories get told, particularly to international audiences. This is a competitive market, with the US, Brits, French, Russians, Chinese, Qatar, South Korea, the Japanese and others telecasting in Continue reading »
Cutting ties with the controversial columnist and the magazine's Associate Editor would be bad for business – and it is hard not to conclude that it must agree with him, writes Brian Cathcart
One would’ve had to have been living in a cave not to have been aware of the recent street violence in the United Kingdom. For those of us who lived through the riots here in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, there was an extreme feeling of déjà vu as we watched attacks on police, Continue reading »
In Asian media this week: Another Shinawatra becomes PM in Thailand. Plus: Kishida ‘lost people’s trust’; Big losses as Asian Muslims shun KFC over Gaza; Manila reshapes its superpower ties; Gen Z revolution in Bangladesh; Racism a factor in Olympics row. The lawfare that afflicts government and politics in Thailand continues, with the Constitutional Court Continue reading »
Anjem Choudary was not a Muslim cleric as the media loved to present him, but the media’s cleric, a rent-a-gob, drinker and playboy turned cosplay Mullah.
Major international media outlets face a dilemma over whether to adapt newsroom practices to the World Court’s judgment last month on Israel’s illegal occupation. Major international media outlets face a dilemma over whether to adapt reporting to the World Court’s judgment last month that Israel is an apartheid state illegally occupying Palestinian territory or continue to Continue reading »