Last week’s negative Newspoll results in The Oz about Rudd’s leadership demonstrates how it’s not merely politicians who try to sell us narratives.
Greg Sheridan
Rundle: The last grouper lost at sea
Greg Sheridan’s attacking piece in today’s Oz mentions treacherous leftie Stephen Smith. What, members of the government have differing opinions? gasps Guy Rundle.
Media briefs: Executive moves at NBC and Greg Sheridan, film buff
In today’s media briefs: Hearst invests in credit ratings not newspapers; The Australian’s Greg Sheridan takes to reviewing in-flight movies and changes in the NBC executive suite.
Guy Rundle: Sheridan unfairly attacks Loewenstein
Should Antony Loewenstein sue Greg Sheridan for libel? asks Guy Rundle.
Guy Rundle: Stick to the colonial script
Week three of the Indian students crisis, and the racialists are at it again, says Guy Rundle.
Guy Rundle: Europe post-politics is a Brown study
Gordon Brown appears to have retained his death-like grip on Number 10, but little else concrete has emerged from the European elections.
Greg Sheridan wants to be UN secretary general. No, really
Greg Sheridan isn’t handling the Rudd Government too well, writes Bernard Keane.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s Friday drive-bys: Cut and Paste monkeys, Spectator watermelons, Boris…
Guy Rundle’s new sort-of column containing all the bits too long-winded and obscure for media briefs.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd, Manning Clark, Mata Hari and Greg Sheridan
The Australian media sees a good spy story as only slightly less jeans-creaming than a good leadership story, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Bushfire battler story is more complex than it looks
Greg Sheridan’s piece in the most recent Weekend Australian exemplifies how problematic the unquestioning rehashing of items in the news cycle can be, writes Eleri Harris.
The Australian’s fuel reduction obsession
With the embers still burning, The Australian’s obsessive, one-sided attempt to paint the fires as basically down to evil greenies continues apace, writes Guy Rundle.
Terrorism and politics in Australia: an absurd farce
Meantime, Greg Sheridan, who has only recently been surgically removed from Alexander Downer, weighed in today to laud our success in the War Against Stuff, writes Bernard Keane.
News Ltd love Sarah Palin’s scaly bits
Ms Barracuda thinks that God Himself endorsed the invasion, just as, from His great Halliburton office in the sky, He gave the thumbs-up to $30 billion natural gas pipeline in Alaska, writes Jeff Sparrow.
We need to have a chat about the camel spider
There is a solpugid in Iraq…
Sheridan, Bolt and Co: the real butchers of Iraq
In 2003, many, many people forecast the coming disaster in Iraq with a fair degree of accuracy. Andrew Bolt and Greg Sheridan weren’t among them, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Flint: Rudd should embrace the Anglosphere
There is one international organisation with standards – the Commonwealth. But that is not one of Mr. Rudd’s foreign policy pillars – the US alliance, Asia, and the UN.
Perhaps someone does read Greg Sheridan
In this morning’s Australian the man modestly billed as “the most influential foreign affairs commentator in Australia” turned his attention to Australia’s gun boat diplomacy over Japanese whaling, writes Richard Farmer.
Sheridan to Musharraf: More massacres, please
The breakdown of democracy in Pakistan has led most normal people to question Western support for General Musharraf. The Australian’s Greg Sheridan is worried, too, but for quite different reasons. He thinks that Musharraf might be insufficiently dictatorial, writes Jeff Sparrow.
How the pundits got it oh so wrong on Afghanistan
Crikey / Jeff Sparrow / Monday, 7 September 2009
Given the almost universal recognition that the Afghanistan campaign has become a bloody mess, it’s worth revisiting some of the pundits who initially sold us the war.