Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Saturday, August 17, 2019

MEDIA: ‘Someone who gets into people’s faces’: Spotlight journalist Walter Robinson speaks in Sydney

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On June 4 2018, at an event hosted by the US Studies Centre at Sydney University, Robinson shared his insights on the Spotlight expose...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

RELIGION: Great, polygamy-promoting Keysar Trad now ‘representing’ Australian Muslims

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Keysar Trad has finally hit the big time. Are his PR skills up to the challenge? Chicago comic Azhar Usman tells a story of...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

MEDIA: The Australian's Opinion Page editor explains ...

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Some years back, I made a pitch to the THEN Opinion Page editor of The Australian . I was proposing to write an article criticising the pros...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

CRIKEY: News Corp encouraged Zaky Mallah’s extremism: judge

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News Corp is in no place to take the moral high ground on giving Zaky Mallah a media platform, write lawyer and author Irfan Yusuf and s...
Monday, March 30, 2015

CRIKEY: How the Western media supports terrorism ...

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Daesh supporters post gruesome photographs on social media to spread propaganda. And the Western media have been very willing to help out wi...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

CRIKEY: As we chuckle at the ‘cali-fatties’, real questions remain unanswered

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Western young men travelling to the Middle East to become jihadis is a serious problem that demands serious coverage. But all the tabloid...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

CRIKEY: Emma Alberici (and the West) doesn’t understand anything about Muslims

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Emma Alberici’s drawn praise for her heated interview with the head of a radical Islam group, but her conduct was not exemplary . ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

MEDIA: Dr John Hewson on the perils of compliant media

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Germany’s Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, once remarked: “Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Neve...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

REFLECTION: On the desire to write ...

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It feels like ages since I last visited this blog. I haven't had anything published since late 2011 when I ventured into the contentiou...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

MEDIA: The Bolt decision

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It must have been an awful feeling for one of Australia’s most loved and hated columnist, a rare moment when he did not enjoy the limelight....
Sunday, September 18, 2011

MEDIA: American-owned newspaper plays the Manne

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It was bound to happen. That American-owned newspaper that likes to call itself The Australian has shown itself to be the 'Heart of the...
Friday, July 22, 2011

MEDIA: Numbered paragraphs on scandalous tapping ...

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Far be it from me to revel in someone else's sorry. But seriously, the Murdoch press has caused sorrow to so many people that it'...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

QUOTE: Nir Rosen on media fraud ...

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Here is Nir Rosen, a senior writer for the New York Times Magazine . Too often consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

VIDEO: A step-by-step guide to television news reporting

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Friday, February 18, 2011

CRIKEY: The media pigeonholing Muslims is not helping any cause

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Scribes used to talk about “the Muslim community” and ascribe to this monolithic blob the views of several religious talking heads from ...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

MEDIA: Andrew Bolt's anti-racism poetry

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The January 2011 edition of the notoriously left-wing magazine IPA Review includes a lengthy profile piece on Andrew Bolt by one Tony Ba...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

CRIKEY: Al Jazeera English’s Cairo performance: it’s the new CNN

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Last night, ABC24’s coverage turned from cyclone Yasi to Egypt at about 7.45. ABC correspondent  Ben Knight  was interviewed as he stood in...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

MEDIA: WikiLeaks hysteria ...

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This post will be a running tally of updates on WikiLeaks developments. I can't guarantee it will be updated regularly. If only I had th...
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