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Sheridan flouts Press Council directive on ‘illegal’ asylum seekers
The Australian Press Council has launched a fresh probe into The Australian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan over the use of the phrase “illegal” to describe asylum seekers after repeatedly flouting a recommendation to stop.
Manne and The Oz: revisiting a time when Iraq had WMD
One of the most salient yet overlooked aspects of Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay Bad News is its assessment of The Australian’s coverage of the Iraq war and its aftermath. NAJ Taylor fills this gap, discussing the debate’s many factors in this essay for This Blog Harms.
WikiLeaks points the finger at Sheridan over China story
A senior Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) official briefed the United States government alleging factual errors in an influential article published in The Australian, writes Grahame Bowland.
Actual intellectuals with passionate arguments = best Q&A ever!
I make no secret of my opinion that Q&A is the worst show on Australian television. But a politician-free panel redeemed the ABC show last night.
Rundle: a collector’s piece for the ages, The Oz on Manne
Get ye to a newsagent and see if they have not returned their copies of The Weekend Australian. Its outrageous defence of Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay is a collectors’ item.
Media briefs: No radicals at RN … Oz’s US sceptic ‘scoop’ …
ABC Radio National managers were locked in talks about the future of programming and the need to attract a younger audience. Plus, Oz exclusive from a US sceptic and other media news.
Fraser to Sheridan: ‘you’re a barracker for political memories’
Malcolm Fraser responds to The Australian: “In his hyperbole, prejudice and partiality, Greg Sheridan shows himself to be not so much a commentator as a barracker, in this case for political memories.”
Political snippets: Get ready to spend twice as much
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is predicting that Australia expenditure on long-term care (LTC) for the elderly as a share of GDP is expected to at least double, and could even triple, by 2050.
Guy Rundle: Fantasies of multiculturalism, ordinariness and Ozstalgie
The one thing the Australian public will never be presented with is the real choice — do you want genuine community control over immigration policy, levels and source (a process that would generate an answer liked by neither left nor right)?
Sheridan and Pilger punch on in Q&A brawl
The Australian’s bearded foreign editor Greg Sheridan and leftist expat John Pilger had a predictable spat on this week’s Q&A over the question of Indonesia.
Newspoll and The Oz: a predictability problem
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.
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.
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.