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.
Category: Media
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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.
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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.
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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. (more…)
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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 Wikipedia’s judgment, to be “ranked ‘C’ on the Quality Scale, which is the lowest ranking for an established Wikipedia page.”
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Australia continues to ignore as Assange’s trial intensifies
The relentless pursuit by the United States of Australian publisher Julian Assange continues with a legal argument last week about the scope of an appeal hearing in the UK Court of Appeal in October this year. (more…)
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How Washington co-opts Hollywood and the news media
Latest exposé of Pentagon documents show how Washington manipulates an ostensibly free and independent media industry. (more…)
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A guide for budding foreign policy journalists in Australia working for Nine Network and News Corp.
The uniform reality of our US-leaning foreign policy media experts suggests a possible template for training suitably compliant foreign policy journalists. (more…)
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Western media is destroying its own credibility
Eric Xun Li has the answer to the problem of the relentlessly negative press that China is receiving. And it’s simpler than one might expect. (more…)
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The gold medal for anti-Beijing hysteria goes to the NYT for its unhinged attack on China’s Olympic success
Not even China’s sporting excellence can pass without comment in the United States, as a highly critical article in the New York Times on Thursday demonstrated. It’s typical of the hysteria culture that’s now rife in America. -
Fibre in the Coral Sea or message in a bottle? Who’s interests are we serving?
Many have been preoccupied with the geopolitical tensions exposed by the Coral Sea Cable, continuing a longstanding – and problematic – tradition of treating the islands of the South Pacific as an empty stage on which to play out Great Power conflict. (more…)
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How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king.
Rupert Murdoch’s role in a secret project jointly financed by the US government and wealthy backers in the private sector to influence public opinion demands the attention of Australian lawmakers.
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The ABC continues to deny right-wing bias by The Drum.
It is was with some sadness that I penned an article indicating what I saw as a right-winged bias by The Drum in its selection of some panellists. Since that article, I have continued to exchange correspondence with the ABC and I believe that the thread of responses mirrors the same tactics the Government uses to conceal obvious bias on their part. The ABC’s tactics has been at first ignore, then deny and if that fails spin the story.
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Blinken’s vow to support ‘independent journalists’ does not apply to Julian Assange
Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed last Monday that the United States “will always support the indispensable work of independent journalists around the world” – a commitment that the Biden administration has refused to apply to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whom the US government is attempting to prosecute for releasing classified information that exposed war crimes in Iraq and elsewhere. (more…)
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When a picture paints a thousand words that reveal the truth- Minamata.
In the quest for truth and justice, the media holds up a mirror that reveals what is hidden from our eyes but is often done in our name. (more…)
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Poor leadership, irresponsible media and a clever virus
Despite this being the most scientific of all ages, capable of producing highly effective vaccines a year after the SARS-COV-2 virus was identified ( Russian scientists actually achieved this in six months), poor leadership, ignorance, stubbornness and irresponsible media, (broadcast and social), are making this pandemic much worse than it needs to be.
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The Drum shows continued right-wing bias in its panelist selections
Like many Australians who take an active interest in our country’s politics I have been an avid follower of the ABC’s week-day current affairs program The Drum. I find the other news outlets have a right-wing preference in their reporting and so I have relied on the ABC for a balanced interpretation of each day’s political events.
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How accurate is western media on China?
One of the most important skills a journalist needs is the skill of research. Proper research and investigation even into the most simple of stories is vitally important, news should be accurate, verified and unbiased. However, when it comes to China, Western news is often very wrong. Sometimes erroneous but given the number of errors, this seems unlikely and certainly unprofessional.
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Murdoch coverage of the pandemic – a dumping for Dan and a free ride for Gladys.
One of the advantages of COVID from a government and media perspective is that it has allowed other crucially important issues to be left aside or placed on the back bench until the pandemic is under control. As always a crises provide opportunities for ambitious politicians and their media supporters. (more…)
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Australian Media in the Asian Century.
This edition of ‘Australian Media in the Asian Century’ explores mainstream media coverage of the centenary for the Chinese Communist Party, UNESCO’s “in danger” listing of the Great Barrier Reef, abundant reports on the Miami building collapse and Australia’s Covid third wave in comparison to reports on Covid outbreaks in neighbouring countries, and ongoing tension between Australian universities and its Chinese students. (more…)
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Why do so many US intelligence chiefs become media pundits?
Retiring from being in charge of intelligence, counter-intelligence and counterterrorism to working as mainstream news commentators, this has become an established career path in the US; now you can rest assured of the objectivity and independence of the world’s greatest democratic free press…I am sure they provide objective and unbiased analyses, and their paymasters make sure they do. And pigs fly over the mountains … (more…)
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Breaking up ABC HQ suits its competitors, not the ABC
Of all the Sydney-centric notions, the idea that the ABC would better represent Australia if it moved its programmakers from Ultimo in Sydney to Parramatta in Sydney is about as Sydney-centric as you can get. -
Julian Assange and the collapse of the rule of law
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.
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Western media’s campaign to ignore the obvious
I’m not alone, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people like me posting, blogging and vlogging positively about China, many are Chinese citizens, many are not, one common factor with all of these people is that they are either ignored by Western media, or if they are considered at all, they are ridiculed and disparaged as being unreliable, accused of being paid, or as is often alleged on Twitter and YouTube, “coerced” by threats to our families to toe a certain CPC line and produce Communist propaganda. (more…)
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Why the Western narrative of China’s ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is another big lie
To work well, the lie must be introduced early, repeated often and insulated from contradiction by a narrative of “fake news” and accusations of “witch hunts”.
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Pentagon Papers failed to cure servile pro-war media
The mainstream media nowadays often show more distrust and indignation about peace than about war. (more…)
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The ABC does not have an “editor-in-chief”
Reporters continue to refer to the managing director of the ABC, David Anderson, as the “editor-in-chief”. There is no such office in the ABC.
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The Stench of COVID Coverups.
Most of us who read Pearls and Irritations are not virologists, mainstream media journalists, Americans, or Chinese. As the nasty details about the pandemic emerge, that’s just as well, if we want the truth.
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The French submarine boondoggle is Australia’s biggest defence blunder. Our tame corporate media hardly noticed.
For the first time in over five years of delay and evasion the Secretary of Defence has at last told us that the Government is looking at an alternative to the French submarine. Our corporate media has failed to hold the government to account in its scandalous handling of the $90 billion French submarine purchase. For five years, the media has failed us. It is now rewarded in the new Media Code with 90% of the tax on Google and Facebook to be handed over to the three failing monopoly media companies. (more…)
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Australian Media in the Asian Century: Bogans in a Monaro alarm business
You would not know it from the coverage of Scott Morrison’s foray to meet Jacinda Ardern in Queenstown last weekend – which was all about Anzac “family” trumping trade interests on China etc – but the government is in a sullen defensive on its handling of China relations. (more…)