The Power Index’s Matthew Knott presents what Australia’s most powerful Megaphones (including Alan Jones, Miranda Devine and Piers Akerman) have been up to over the silly season.
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10 most memorable Megaphone moments of 2011
In 2011, Australia’s Megaphones have been louder than ever. Jones, Bolt, Hadley and co. have had a say in how this country’s run – and caused plenty of controversy in the process. Here are their 10 most memorable moments.
Crikey Says: Three golden radio moments
Three golden moments from radio that have hit the news in the past 24 hours. Take a bow Kyle Sandilands, Ray Hadley and Alan Jones.
Political snippets: Gillard’s run to continue
I felt cheated this morning. No Dennis Shanahan explaining the mysteries of Newspoll’s latest ups and down
Media briefs: Jones highlights … angry Coast paper … bleak outlook for Hungry Beast …
Despite claims The Times now has 110,000 paying customers, News International confirmed overnight that around 120 journalists jobs would go from the paper. Plus other media news of the day.
Video The National Press Club Audience Highlights Reel: #1 — Alan Jones
Crikey presents: “A Penny For Your Thoughts”. A highlight reel of the audience’s reaction to Alan Jones’ National Press Club address from October 19.
Alan Jones turns up the heat on fracking
Alan Jones’s rhetoric on coal seam gas is indistinguishable from that coming from the Occupy movement.
Political snippets: An interest rate reduction on Cup Day?
For my Melbourne Cup Day bet I’ll be having a dollar on a reduction in the Reserve Bank’s official interest rate.
Alan Jones: The talkback titan who’s stood the test of time
Alan Jones is not a man; he’s a force of nature. Cyclone Alan has been written off as a spent force many times, but he keeps spinning, wreaking havoc and destroying anyone who stands in his way, writes Matthew Knott.
Media briefs: 4 Corners on NotW … Mamamia context …
Last night’s Four Corners revealed further details on the widespread nature of the phone hacking at News of the World. Plus, Mia Freedman’s latest column misses some crucial facts…
What motivates the Parl house rallies?
Do the right-wing rallies that have proliferated here this year have anything to do with protest movements elsewhere? Well, one in particular…
Maley: I got bullied publicly by Alan Jones
When Sydney Morning Herald journalist Jacqueline Maley asked shock jock Alan Jones whether he’d received any payment for attending the Convoy of No Confidence rally, Jones went feral, revving up the crowd against Maley.
Media briefs: Jones v Media Watch … emails deleted in NotW scandal …
Who watches Media Watch? More Sydney viewers than listen to Alan Jones. Plus, the front page of the day and other media news.
Sideshow Alley: Sideshow Alley: let them eat cake
We salute these valid contributions to dumbing down and deliberately misleading the public and commend them to the public — with extra points to Scullion for simultaneously making politics more stupid and slightly threatening with the wave of a piping bag.
podcast Canberra Calling: The chaff bag in the Tasman Sea podcast
This week, Crikey’s Canberra Correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey deputy editor Jason Whittaker talk about extremism in public debate; such as Republicans taking US to brink of default, wild claims about the carbon price, why Gillard gets so much abuse and the declining trust in media.
James Packer shows off his Labor Right pulling power
The James Packer ALP advisory team of Graham Richardson, Karl Bitar and former Kim Beazley chief-of-staff Gary O’Neill, today have played one of their trump cards in the campaign to head off Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reform agenda.
PR outfit behind Monckton backers a company ‘beyond ideology’
Last week, it was duly noted by august journals like the Australian Conservative that something called the ‘Galileo Movement’ had launched a website to dispute the scientific consensus behind climate change.
Radio ratings: ABC makes ground as Mitchell slumps
The ABC was the big winner in Sydney and Melbourne in the latest radio ratings, while the biggest loser was Fairfax radio.
Sydney’s sparkling elite gather to hear Julia kick the bludgers
Let’s get those horrible dole-bludgers back to work! That was theme from Julia Gillard’s address at the Sydney Institute’s annual dinner lecture, where Sydney’s business and political elite gathered.
ADF into the heat of battle
Stephen Smith could be described as a brave man — even a hero — in the real sense of the words rather than the debased usage much of the media and many militaristic politicos have adopted.
Coorey: A shock(jock)ing lack of respect
Shock jocks aren’t journalists, but they should have the decency to treat the political leaders of this country with a little bit of respect, because the recent rudeness just lowers the — already low — standard of public debate, declares Phillip Coorey.
Why Andrew Bolt wants Julia for PM
Uh oh. Conservative journos — heres looking at you Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones — are already pushing at Julia Gillard taking over the Labor leadership. But their aims aren’t exactly honourable.
Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who’s Andrew Bolt?
Crikey / Jason Whittaker / Monday, 5 September 2011
We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.