GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 530 19 February 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Steve Cannane fails to challenge Kevin Rudd’s Murdoch Media Monopoly Myth Can Your Bear It? – Nine’s Fitz still in a huff about his alleged lefty love-in; The Sydney Morning Herald’s letters:A conservative-free zone; The Saturday Paper’s [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 529 12 February 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Mark Humphries returns; Adam Creighton resurrected Can You Bear It? – CBD on the provocative Leaks; Sally Neighbour’s non-correction correction, also starring Louise Milligan; Fitz can’t laugh at himself; Insiders to start holding panellists accountable for [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 528 5 February 2021 * * * * MWD Exclusive – ABC's Nick Leys Boast that Aunty Finished Second Last in a Four-Horse Race Can You Bear It? Nine’s Peter Hartcher Reckons that Communist China is “Fascist”; The Guardian’s Katharine Murphy’s Big Time Fawn Over Mark Butler; [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 527 29 January 2021 * * * * Stop Press: Michael Rowland fires up on the Daily Telegraph’s Front Page Jackie’s Back Howler of the Week: Virginia Haussegger’s wow factor about female Australian of the Year winners in 2021 – but not in 2015 Can You Bear [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 526 11 December 2020 * * * * Stop Press – David Speers & Michael Rowland still ignorant of US election system Media Watch Dog Exclusive – An in-depth analysis of the ABC’s Blackburn Report re The Drum & Insiders MWD to take WEB Can You Bear [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 525 4 December 2020 * * * * Stop Press – The Project: News Delivered Inaccurately Can You Bear It? – Richard Ackland remembers Alan Ramsey – sort of; Fran Kelly & Laura Tingle on Australia-New Zealand relations; Cathy Wilcox’s Australia Alienation MWD Exclusive – Mark Humphries deletes [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 524 27 November 2020 * * * * STOP PRESS: CATCHING UP ON THE ABC’S DIVERSITY ISSUE – STARRING JAMES MORROW, LEIGH SALES & VIRGINIA TRIOLI EDITORIAL: ITA BUTTROSE’S ABC LECTURE – AN EXERCISE IN DENIAL CAN YOU BEAR IT? NINE NEWSPAPERS’ CBD COLUMN & HOBART DINNER [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 520 30 October 2020 * * * * 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 [...]