Guy Rundle responds to Peter Craven’s critique of Godzone, a show he did recently with Max Gillies. Is he just jealous?
March, 2010
Come in Spinner: Exclusive! Shock! Horror! Probe reveals PR influence
When will journalists realise that PR influence is insignificant compared to other factors impacting on the media? asks Noel Turnbull.
Media briefs: State of the media? Not pretty
The annual State of the News Media Report forecasts another year of change in the world’s largest media market with newspapers continuing to bleed readers and advertisers, plus more snippets from the mediasphere.
Video of the Day: The magazine stand of the future
Is this the future of magazine purchases? A stand at the South by Southwest festival shows how you can pick your magazine from hundreds of options on a screen, drag it onto your e-reader and voila! No paper evidence that you just bought O, the Oprah magazine.
Health ID cards unleash ‘scary’ Little Brothers
The Healthcare Identifiers Bill introduced last Wednesday is sketchy at best, and Health Minister Nicola Roxon has already been forced into releasing an equally sketchy draft of the accompanying regulations on Friday.
Senators, don’t use women’s needs as an excuse for bad policy
Since when did feminism condone compulsory loss of rights for categories of women? Please don’t use women’s needs as an excuse for bad policy as it sounds a bit like Phillip Ruddock wearing his Amnesty badge while persecuting asylum seekers.
Airline safety regulatory enforcement: US shows how to get tough
The neglect of airline safety regulatory enforcement in Australia compared to the US is highlighted by the different treatment recently of safety failures in Jetstar and American Airlines.
Political snippets: Polls apart!
Today’s Newspoll gives a quite different reading of the state of public opinion to the Morgan Poll from last Friday and yesterday’s Essential Report verdict. Plus, return of the old boys and other political news.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: no hope or glory when democracy fails
To really understand the difficulties attending this UK election, you have to consider this: Australia is not a democracy. We haven’t been much of a democracy for quite a while, at least in the lower house, where government is formed.
This day in Crikey: March 16, 2009
March 16, 2009, The ETS is a dog. It will never pass, by
Bernard Keane.
Daily Proposition: So you’ve finished The Wire, what next?
Ejecting the final DVD of The Wire season 5 and knowing there’s no more can make people wonder where to turn next. The answer: The Red Riding Trilogy, a series so bleak it puts Titus Adronicus to shame, writes Emma Hawkshaw.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No wonder Fairfax has lost $15m
Anyone in real estate knows that The Age’s management — CEO Don Churchill and advertising head David Hoath — are disconnected from Melbourne’s major advertisers and power elites.
Crikey Says: Friends or foes … it’s hard to tell with media games
There’s a media campaign gathering to suggest Julia Gillard is somehow stalking, or should be stalking, Kevin Rudd.
Australia’s getting hot and bothered
Feeling a little hot under the collar over climate change? The CSIRO and Bureau of Meterology have released their findings on the state of the Australian climate, and we’re getting hotter and drier. Check out the whole data here.
Rupert’s war on Rudd
The entire stable of News Ltd papers — with The Oz at their helm — seem to be waging a war on Kevin Rudd, with relentlessly negative coverage of anything and everything the Government does, writes The Political Sword.
This is why we’re fat
When soft drink costs less to buy than a bag of oranges, is it any surprise that we’re suffering obesity issues? A fascinating graph from the US shows how fruit is 46% more expensive now than in the 70s.
Tinseltown loses its glitter
Locations around the world now offer tax breaks and incentives for film studios, and California is feeling the burn as movie production abandons the Hollywood studio set. Is Hollywood no longer the home of American blockbusters?
Seat by seat through Tasmania: Braddon
Charles Richardson heads down to Tassie to report on the upcoming election. Up first, the electorate of Braddon, the only electorate where the Greens don’t hold a seat.
Colebatch: Stop cheering the rising house prices
Homeowners might be counting their riches as house prices rise, but it’s screwing young Australians financially. Those who are down-grading win but the rest of society suffers, writes Tim Colebatch.
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Who owns the news media?
An interactive database of who owns what in the US media, profiling the companies and people who decide what you read, watch and listen to every day.
Film review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — exhausting Swedish thriller
Adapted from the first instalment of one of the most popular Swedish book series of all time, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a long, windy and impossible to figure out whodunit with a sadistic sting in its tail, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Pew’s State of the News Media 2010 report: journalism is screwed
The Pew Project For Excellence In Journalism’s annual report into the health of the news media is out, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. Nevertheless, it’s a must-read analysis, including interactive features, a database of who owns the media, and the obligatory “will readers pay for online news” section (spoiler: no).
Out of sight, out of mind: why we ship our refugees offshore
Why are Australians okay with imprisoning their refugees offshore? Psychotherapist Zoe Krupka gives a psychological analysis on the group thinking behind it: it lets us separate ourselves from the problem.
