Denis Muller
Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but there’s a change he needs to make to fix it
ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices. Williams has taken issue with...
Antoinette Lattouf sacking shows damage to ABC by Coalition governments
The dispute between the ABC and Antoinette Lattouf, the stand-in radio presenter it recently sacked ostensibly for disobeying a managerial directive, encapsulates...
Money, power, influence: How ‘media monsters’ used journalism to cement their empires
Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force...
Murdoch v Crikey highlights how Australia’s defamation laws protect the rich and powerful
There is no better example of how Australia’s defamation laws enable the rich and powerful to intimidate their critics than Lachlan Murdoch...
How the ‘reality-distorting machinery’ of the election campaign delivered sub-par journalism
The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years. Given that...
The last squawk? Alan Jones finally seems to have nowhere to go
So the Parrot, as H.G. Nelson called him, has been pushed off his perch, Sky News having refused to renew his contract....
From Alan Jones to Gladys Berejiklian, News Corp walks a delicate line on COVID politics
Elements within News Corporation are now fighting among themselves over how its platforms should position themselves in response to the worsening COVID...
Contrasting NSW and Victoria lockdown coverage reveals much about the politics of COVID – and the media
Media coverage of the first few days of the COVID-19 Delta variant outbreak in New South Wales has been markedly different from...
The mounting evidence the tide is turning on Rupert Murdoch and News Corp
There is mounting evidence that Australia is sick of Rupert Murdoch and the political propaganda machine he runs in the guise of...