GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 546 18 June 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Nine’s Bevan Shields interjects into Boris Johnson press conference; Michael Rowland & Casey Briggs let ABC Australians know what ABC Australians believe re Australia Day Can You Bear It? – Michael Rowland on the long, hard [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 545 11 June 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Quelle Surprise! ABC defends ABC; Four Corners finds a QAnon conspiracy; John Ruddick’s Russia confusion Can You Bear It? – Chris Masters & Peter FitzSimons on the allegedly button-popping rage of Michael Kroger; AFR’s “Rear Window” on the lost [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 544 4 June 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Conspiracy afoot at Four Corners; La Tingle & Speersy remember to forget Can You Bear It? – Bonge can’t criticise BBC journo Martin Bashir without taking a swipe at Rupert Murdoch; All in agreement on Insiders; Samantha Maiden [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 543 28 May 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Dave Sharma vs the field re Israel; A repeated myth on Q+A Editorial – ABC management draws a line on staff tweets about the PM somewhere between fascist and ideological bastardry Can You Bear It? – Amy [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 542 21 May 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Luke McGregor dazzles the other panellists & host, cranking out speedy lines on Q+A; David Speers ignores the contributions of the Howard and Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments to renewable energy Editorial – New ABC Board appointments will not alter ABC’s [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 541 14 May 2021 * * * * Stop Press: Last night’s Q+A – a pile-on against Morrison government Minister Jane Hume; 7:30’s Leigh Sales interrupts the PM much more than she does Anthony Albanese Editorial: ABC chair Ita Buttrose’s flawed political vision for the public broadcaster [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 540 7 May 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Q&A ends with Hamish Macdonald interrupting a Liberal MP Can You Bear It? – Geoffrey Robertson QC compares his time in hotel quarantine with the plight of political prisoners; Niki Savva asks whether Josh Frydenberg would [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 539 30 April 2021 * * * * Stop Press – Hamish Macdonald lacks courtesy when interrupting Senator Bridget McKenzie on Q+A Can You Bear It? – Dr Peter Collignon struggles to get a word in with Fran Kelly; Dr Norman Swan has a whine about his [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 538 23 April 2021 * * * * Stop Press – A Turnbull-led tag team on Q+A Editorial – It took the ABC three months to issue an obvious correction re the JobKeeper scheme Can You Bear It? – Fitz flubs a John Howard quote and comes out [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 537 16 April 2021 * * * * Stop Press – A leftist Melbourne stack on Q&A – with Norman Swan cast as the hero; Malcolm Turnbull to return to Q&A with or without leather jacket Can You Bear It? – Mike Carlton misplaces the start of [...]