It was a common assumption during the darkest days of the US’ war on Vietnam that support for the war would dwindle once the body bags began coming home along “the low road” to small rural communities. (more…)
Category: Media
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Message from the editor
Many of you would have heard P&I publisher, founder and editor-in-chief John Menadue in conversation with David Marr on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live last Wednesday evening. If not you can catch it any time. We will publish a transcript. (more…)
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The smart home energy burden: How AI is driving up power bills globally
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword – it’s part of our daily lives. (more…)
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The governance crisis in Australia’s universities
Recent media reports that Julie Bishop might have bullied an academic staff representative on the ANU council are alarming. (more…)
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Pay up, shut up, speak up against China, or we won’t get the subs (some wise Americans demand)
Australia’s $368 billion submarine program is apparently wobbling again, not because US shipyards can’t keep up, or because a future president could cancel the deal with the flick of a pen. (more…)
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Understanding Donald J. Trump
I think I am in a bad dream and soon I will wake and find Donald J. Trump didn’t happen. (more…)
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Open letter to journalists on the vast undercount of deaths and serious injuries in Gaza
Ralph Nader urges prominent journalists [listed below] to reject deliberate undercounting, and accurately report the number of Palestinian killed in the genocide. (more…)
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You aren’t laughing now, are you?
The British media has always been populated by larger than life figures – from Northcliffe to Maxwell, Beaverbrook to Harmsworth, Barclay to Lebedev and, of course Rupert Murdoch. (more…)
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Message from the editor
Last Monday night I was part of a panel discussion on the future of Palestine with a fascinating group. (more…)
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Our bravest journalists today are all working and dying in Gaza
Palestinian reporters are being murdered before their own cameras to expose true horrors to an indifferent or even pro-genocidal world. (more…)
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Restaurant reviews benefit restaurants
The question burns: What are Nine Publishing’s restaurant reviews in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald trying to do? What is their purpose? (more…)
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Why Trump lashes India but holds back on China – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: US hopes Beijing might lean on Putin. Plus: Work starts on Xi-Trump summit in China; Former first lady jailed on gifts-for-influence charges; Japan looks to become regional weapons supplier; Indonesia deploys ballistic missile system; Hong Kong “suffering climate whiplash”. (more…)
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Where is the outrage? Israel’s systematic mass assassination of journalists
The killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif is shocking but that it is a culmination of planned mass assassination of journalists by the Israeli Government is an outrage. (more…)
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Breaking: Chilling ‘News Virus’ sweeps Australia
Chikungunya is a virus first identified in 1952 in what is now Tanzania, carried by mosquitoes, long since a globetrotter. (more…)
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Tributes, condemnation pour in over slain Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability. (more…)
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‘I entrust you with Palestine’: The final testament of Anas al-Sharif
Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, left behind a powerful farewell message – his final testament to his people, his family and the world. (more…)
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Recognition of the State of Palestine must be combined with principled action to stop Israel’s intensifying genocide in Gaza
The Jewish Council of Australia affirms the Palestinian people’s fundamental right to self-determination – a right that has been systematically denied by the Israeli state. (more…)
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Stand with Mary
It’s a privilege to join you today concerning Mary’s court case which is about the most fundamental issues of truth, justice and free speech in a decent society. (more…)
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We need media literacy programs for children, not a ban on social media
Western countries are searching for reasons why the anxiety, neuroticism and introversion of young people are increasing. Social media is being targeted as the major cause. So, Australia has decided to ban social media usage for children under age 16. (more…)
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Message from the editor
It has been difficult to focus on much other than the terrible events in Palestine in recent weeks. It is beyond comprehension that the Israeli Government could have made the war even worse, but with the announcement that it will attempt full occupation of Gaza it has done just that. (more…)
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When war criminals are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, what does ‘peace’ even mean?
In 1939, a member of the Swedish parliament nominated Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize. (more…)
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Australia needs better China coverage. This ABC story just gave us less
The South China Sea is complicated. The ABC made it simple – and not in a good way. When public media reduces regional disputes to black-and-white, it risks turning policy into performance. (more…)
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‘Israel doesn’t want journalists on the ground’: CNN’s Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling — unsuccessfully — since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanitarian situation there from the ground. (more…)
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The shabby and ludicrous politics of provocation, self-defence and divine right
As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025. (more…)
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Israel activates its cells – the Kostakidis case
The conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is the test in the Zionist lobby case against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis for her Gaza reporting and the outcome will be of great international significance, says Joe Lauria. (more…)
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Why every China watcher must be on WeChat
None of this is to glorify WeChat itself – it’s simply the reality of China’s digital ecosystem today. (more…)
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Message from the editor
I spent some time in Parliament House last week and it was a delight to see the increased diversity of elected members. (more…)
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Palestinians have a history of oppression long before 7 October, 2023
It would seem that most journalists and political commentators remain stuck on the terrible attack by the Hamas brigades (formally Islamic Resistance Movement) into Israel on 7 October 2023. (more…)
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Trump trashes India, boosts Pakistan over oil – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: India and Russian are “dead economies”. Plus: Border clash ceasefire a test for ASEAN; Populist Right rising in Japan; Jakarta wants all nations to follow France’s Palestine lead; Pyongyang “not interested” in easing tensions; Kashmir pilgrimage a “river of humanity” (more…)
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Australian media persists with a misguided and tragically ineffectual strategy – the way to prevent suicide is not to talk about it
Statistics are cold-hearted methods to gauge the “success” of suicide prevention strategies, yet they are the only tool available to measure the number of Australians who take their lives each year. (more…)