For the sake of Australia’s national interest, and for journalistic integrity that will be judged by history, can mainstream media maintain independence from short-term, vulgar political and geopolitical influence and interference, especially with regard to reporting about China? At last, the relationship between Australia and China has been stabilised. One indicator is the welcome home Continue reading »
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Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation's flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation
Campaigners say press standards have barely improved with newspapers still allowed to mark their own homework
The AUS Dictionary has today announced that the word adultery has been named it’s 2023 word of the year, narrowly pipping arsehole, a word commonly used to describe real estate agents. ”It was quite a tough year this year but... Read More ›
Channel 7 has today announced that they will be ditching the kids hospital telethon in favour of a more worthy cause, male survivors of defamation lawsuits. ”What sort of World do we live in, when good wholesome chaps like Bruce... Read More ›
EXCLUSIVE: A climate group is planning legal action against the under-sale Telegraph Media Group over the outlet's climate coverage.
West Australia’s council elections seem a strange place to pinpoint a warning about American radicalising political games infiltrating the Australian landscape. While it is strange, it is nonetheless important. American conservative and commentator Andrew Breitbart declared a (contested) doctrine that “politics is downstream from culture.” According to his institutional heir, Steve Bannon, this means strategists Continue reading »
The Guardian has long promoted itself as a valiant publisher of news and analysis that holds the powerful to account. It is a thing of wonder that the Guardian appends the following comment beneath news pieces: ‘Our quality, investigative journalism is a scrutinising force at a time when the rich and powerful are getting away Continue reading »
On the day on which the Earth recorded a global average surface temperature of more than 2 degrees centigrade for the first time since records began what was the Australian Parliament and media doing? While the Australian Parliament and the media were obsessed by whether or not the Prime Minister did or did not say Continue reading »
Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a four-day ceasefire which will entail the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 150 hostages held by Israeli forces. In an article titled “Biden admin officials see proof their strategy is working in hostage deal,” Politico describes the deal as “the administration’s biggest diplomatic Continue reading »