The term post-truth has been around for a couple of decades, during which time it has had several meanings. However, it exploded into common parlance following the Oxford English Dictionary’s decision to name it the 2016 word of the year. The OED defines post-truth as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 344 2 December 2016 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published [...]
It’s a tale of two newspapers that tells a story about the Left. Fidel Castro died on the morning of Saturday, November 26 (Australian time). Consequently, the first opportunity for the former Cuban leader’s death to be covered in print newspapers occurred the following day. In Melbourne, News Corp Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun reported the [...]
Thank God for Tom Switzer. Without him how could the likes of the ABC and the United States Studies Centre even attempt to rationalise the acute lack of political diversity within these two taxpayer-funded organisations? On November 16, ABC radio announced what were claimed to be “key changes to its content and presenter line-up for [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 343 25 November 2016 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published [...]
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has copped considerable criticism for his comment on Sky News’ The Bolt Report last Monday that one-time Coalition prime minister “Malcolm Fraser did make mistakes” in bringing some refugees into Australia in the 1970s. Yet the authority for this claim is none other than Fraser himself. Here is the story. Soon [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 342 18 November 2016 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published [...]
When Paul Keating entered the House of Representatives in October 1969, about a third of the Labor caucus was opposed to the Australian-American alliance. They belonged to the ALP’s Left faction, or what BA Santamaria termed the pro-communist Left. Keating was the product of the powerful right-wing faction in the NSW Labor Party, many of [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 341 11 November 2016 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published [...]
So the Republican Donald Trump comfortably defeated the Democrat Hillary Clinton in the big US political match. But the curtain-raiser was equally fascinating. As was its scoreboard, which read: Deplorables 3; Media Zip. Never in the history of US politics has the media supported one presidential candidate to such an extent. Clinton had the backing [...]
