The latest tabloid beat-up suggests the Australian media will grab any chance it can to condemn the authorities of our Asian neighbours, especially if it involves beer.
Articles by Andrew Dodd 
News Ltd features enter a brave new — centralised — world
The restructure of News Limited’s tabloid feature sections reveals the industry is reliant on centralisation, as well as further job cuts and the loss of local content, in its efforts to reinvent itself.
Tele’s Hanson apology laughable
Considering the extent of the defamation against Pauline Hanson by the Sunday Telegraph, the apology published by the Sydney tabloid on the weekend seems almost laughable.
Arrests as Tasmania’s old growth forest heads to the chainsaw
22 protesters were arrested in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley. Andrew Dodd was there.
Pagemasters takes on the jobs Fairfax rejects
Australian company Pagemasters is successfully doing deals with ailing media companies to provide what used to be seen as core functions for newspapers.
What would you pay for a Costello column?
Is Peter Costello a paid Fairfax contributor? Staff want to know.
Senator John Kerry’s quest to save American newspapers
John Kerry will next week open hearings of the subcommittee on communication and technology in an effort to staunch the massive losses in US newspapers.
Plimer’s Heaven and Earth: a conservative coup?
Crikey / Andrew Dodd / Monday, 20 April 2009
The attention paid to climate-change sceptic Ian Plimer’s book, Heaven and Earth, is a cute insight into the way conservative commentators are starved for shreds of evidence to support their theories.