One of my problems with the coverage of violence against women is the media’s insistence on describing assaults committed within relationships as ‘domestic incidents’ or ‘domestic disputes’, writes journalism lecturer Julie Posetti.
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And the winner of Crikey’s Wankley Award is …
Introducing the inaugural Crikey Wankley Awards, a weekly event wherein we recognise excrescence in Australian journalism. And what a week it was, writes Jane Nethercote.
The media has lost the plot on Wayne Carey
Today’s front page story in the Herald Sun is nothing short of a disgrace and yesterday’s article, “Carey: What a mug,” on the front page of the commuter paper, MX, was as close as you can get to contemptuous while getting away with it, writes Andrew Dodd.
