GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 523 20 November 2020 * * * * Can You Bear It? – Stephen Brook disappoints Comrades Millar & Kennedy with his lack of Murdoch-phobia; Crikey’s false prophet Charlie Lewis; Four Corners first out of the block for a W.E.B.; Janine Perrett’s (media) secret; Jimmy from Hesket calls into Raf [...]
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GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 522 13 November 2020 * * * * Stop Press – Jacqueline Maley & Hamish Macdonald forget Julie Bishop – but Pru Goward remembers; ABC presenter Paul Kennedy complains about taxpayer funding for (non-ABC) media Editorial – Why the ABC campaigns against Sky News Can You Bear [...]
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Perhaps the most considered comment in the wake of the US election was proffered by David Brooks. The New York Times columnist tweeted on Wednesday: “Our job in the media is to capture reality so that when reality voices itself, like last night, people aren’t surprised. Pretty massive failure. We still are not good at [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 521 6 November 2020 * * * * Stop Press – 7:30’s predictably anti-Trump US election coverage; Tom Gleeson’s Hard Point; Hamish Macdonald on his intolerant audience MWD Exclusive – The Hon Jennifer Coate AO, The COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry & Burden of Proof – A New [...]
The Hon Michael Kirby QC CMC is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President [...]
As riots and activists became the news in the US after the death of black American George Floyd at the hands of police, the issues of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia and the state of Indigenous welfare became a discussion point yet again. At a “virtual” function and discussion for The Sydney Institute on [...]
Democratic politics, which can only function within a system of representative government, turns on the successful and peaceful regulation of difference. In other words, democracy is all about debate and discussion. In contemporary Western societies, this concept is under attack, primarily from the left, by means of de-platforming individuals. This amounts to non-violent silencing, or [...]
