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Australian newspaper
Can Brian Burke ever get a fair trial in WA?
Given the frentic media reporting of their activities over the past 12 months, could a jury of 12 people be found in WA today who haven’t already made up their minds about Brian Burke and Julian Grill? asks Greg Barns.
Things are getting wild at The West
The West Australian Government really dislikes the West Australian newspaper, writes Andrew Dodd.
Haneef conspiracists go tumbling down the grassy knoll
The bien-pensant pissants that provide so much of Crikey’s commentary have invested much time in tortured argument since the arrest of Mohamed Haneef demonstrating the arch-Machiavellianism of John Howard and his cronies in the ministry, let alone the over-zealousness of his Federal Police satraps.
Crikey Bias-o-meter: The newspapers
The market is too small to support newspapers that don’t play to the centre ground, so the Crikey bias-o-meter has had to be finely calibrated. In a marketplace full of bland centrist publications and carefully mixed stables of commentators, small deviations can look extreme.
