The end of the Media Watch season in particular is close to a scandal, a mega public broadcaster fail.
Four Corners
Rupert hangs up on 4 Corners and all his own business journos
As the world’s largest employer of journalists, Rupert Murdoch sure doesn’t like to answer their questions.
Has Four Corners fallen for the gambling industry’s tactics?
Like with tobacco reform, there are numerous Liberal MPs who privately agree with their conservative allies that something has got to be done on pokies reform. But tonight’s Four Corners missed the point.
The appallingly violent, painful, and torturous treatment of our cattle
After Four Corners last night aired evidence of Australian cattle being brutally treated, Melissa Parke, the federal member for Fremantle and opponent of ive exports, delivered a 10-minute speech to the house. Here is a transcript.
Political snippets: Determination showed through
The thing that came across to me from last night’s Four Corners profile of Julia Gillard is just what a determined and dedicated player she is of the political game.
Four Corners: we stand by our story
Wendy Carlisle, of the ABC’s Four Corners responds to Crikey’s Bernard Keane. Facts weren’t cherry picked and ignored in the “Lethal Miscalculation” story.
PODCAST: How to uncover a scandal
Journos Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie uncovered a big international scandal involving a company half-owned by the Reserve Bank. They spill on how the story came about.
Four Corners saving the RSPT 1 million viewers at a time
It is now clear the government made a major blunder not releasing the entire Henry Report in February and allowing a major sweeping debate on tax reform to unfold before it unveiled the RSPT.
ABC gets into bed with Fairfax … and news is the winner
Once, journalists guarded their stories fiercely, and the idea of competing with another media outlet, let alone doing a joint operation, would have been anathema. Things have changed.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: BHP wonders who its real friends are
Who are BHP’s real buddies in Canberra? Is NSW’s welfare quarantining being extended? Why is Four Corners sniffing around Melbourne Storm?
Political snippets: Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The rot has stopped. The new Premier of NSW Kristina Keneally might be a long way from steering her party to a win at the next state election but she has at least stopped the rot. The Newspoll accumulation of data from its past two months of national polls shows a modest, and probably significant, […]
Watch the now-classic 4 Corners report: Malcolm and the malcontents
Watch the ABC’s 4 Corners report that exposed the Coalition’s deep divisions over the issue of climate change and caused further rifts within the party.
Climate change: the Coalition’s new Hansonism
There’s a number of similarities between Howard-era Hansonism and climate denialism, but the biggest similarity is that both mean big trouble for the Coalition.
Expansive James Packer goes the full half hour
The man who used to like two-minute chairman addresses went on for half-an-hour at yesterday’s Crown AGM, boasting of PBL’s recent performance and making some pre-emptive attacks against the anti-pokies lobby.
Crikey Says: AFP get a lesson in cause and effect
Cause and Effect, brought to you by Four Corners.
Undercover Four Corners reporter bashed
A reporter for ABC’s Four Corners has reportedly been attacked and beaten while working undercover on a story about dodgy migration and education schemes for international students.
Ikin a victim as A Current Affair and Nine sport go to war
Channel Nine’s A Current Affair and its sports department, Wide World of Sports, are at 10 paces, throwing meat pies at each other..
Sport and sex: rogue players, predatory women and power
Why do sportspeople feature regularly in reports of sexual shenanigans? Social scientists explain.
Four Corners responds to “Code of Silence” backlash
ABC’s Four Corners have issued a statement to “set the record straight” on their recent episode “Code of Silence”, which explored sexual misconduct within the NRL.
Matthew Johns: what happened and what people are saying about it
The NRL has been marred by bad press over players’ sexual misconduct for years, but the issue is perhaps only now getting the scrutiny it deserves. Ruth Brown canvasses the history — and reaction.
Four Corners fails to tell the full NRL story
One day there will be a worthwhile documentary made about rugby league players and their interactions with women. Four Corners’ highly-anticipated program last night, “The Code of Silence”, was not it, writes Michael Winkler
