GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 288 25 SEPTEMBER 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Interpretations differ as to whether Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to the Lodge increased the Liberal Party vote in last Saturday’s Canning by-election. Some Turnbull supporters say the leadership change helped Andrew Hastie win the seat, whereas some backers of former prime minister Tony Abbott maintain that Hastie would have won well in any event. The truth [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 287 18 SEPTEMBER 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
There is something overwhelmingly self-indulgent when a journalist interviews other journalists about journalism. No exception to this rule occurred on Tuesday when the ABC’s 7.30 presenter Leigh Sales spoke to Phillip Coorey (The Australian Financial Review) and Sabra Lane (ABC) concerning, among other matters, the media’s role in the demise of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership. [...]
The Abbott haters are in full voice again following the drowning of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian Kurd from the town of Kobane near the Syria-Turkey border. The case against the Prime Minister was packaged by cartoonist David Pope in last Saturday’s Canberra Times. He drew a picture of the Turkish soldier carrying Aylan’s body [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 286 11 SEPTEMBER 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part of [...]
Mike Seccombe, the Sydney correspondent for The Saturday Paper, is one of Australia’s most prominent sneering secularists. Like many left-wing secularists, Seccombe’s sneering is invariably focused on Christian — and especially Catholic — believers. It’s not intellectually fashionable to sneer at Buddhists, Hindus or Muslims. Last weekend, Seccombe’s page one lead was titled “Abbott and [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 285 4 SEPTEMBER 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 284 28 AUGUST 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Mark Latham’s expletive-charged appearance at the Melbourne Writers Festival last Saturday was the most recent high-profile substitute of anger for argument in what passes for public debate in contemporary Australia. Latham’s designated topic was “Politicians and Journalists”. The MWF’s blurb framed the subject matter as follows: “Can ex-politicians write objectively about politics or are they [...]
