GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 340 4 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 as part [...]
If there is to be a media prize for unbalanced advocacy in journalism then last Monday’s coverage by the ABC’s 7.30 of Cardinal George Pell deserves to be short-listed at the very least. Louise Milligan reported on the submission of Gail Furness, counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which [...]
“Resign” is the increasingly popular refrain when someone prominent in society is perceived to have committed an error. Often the demand is made irrespective of the seriousness of the mistake or the impact of such an outcome on the alleged offender and his or her family. I am not calling for the resignation of Kate Warner AM, [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 339 28 October 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 [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 338 21 October 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 [...]
The decision of the Australian Human Rights Commission to investigate a complaint against The Australian cartoonist Bill Leak under sections 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act appears to be yet another step on the road to the silencing of Australia. Leak’s cartoon of August 4, which is the subject of a complaint to [...]
And so it has come to this. Ben Eltham, a Deakin University academic and national affairs editor for the left-wing newsletter New Matilda, has taken ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann to the ABC’s complaints department. On September 29, following Uhlmann’s article about the recent power blackout in South Australia, Eltham tweeted: “I’ve lodged a complaint [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 337 14 October 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 [...]
The anti-Catholic sectarianism that was so strong in Australia during the first six decades of the 20th century has scant outcomes today. However, its legacy has led to a profound misunderstanding of Catholics and Catholicism among some commentators and historians. Two examples illustrate the point: namely, the second episode of Howard on Menzies: The Making [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 336 7 October 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 [...]
