Journalists don’t always tell us everything they know, and sometimes a big story will be repressed just because that’s the way things work in Canberra, writes Margaret Simons.
Journalists
Newspapers need strong proprietors to survive
When ABC Managing Director Mark Scott was in senior management at Fairfax, his critics – of whom there were many - generally wrote him off as a creature of the CEO, Fred Hilmer, who was reviled almost as much when he was there as he has been since his departure.
The precious prattling of journalists
Now here’s a question for pollsters: “Lawyers, Journalists or Real Estate Agents – who do you least like?”
Tiwi lease gives the lie to Aboriginal permit policy
A document has fallen into the hands of Crikey that clearly reveals that, if Aboriginal communities tow the line, they can retain the permit system—irregardless of the national emergency over child abuse on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, writes Henry Ivrey.
The Oz, the AFP and the Haneef leak: What is going on?
What’s going on with the editor of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, and the Australian Federal Police?
Media briefs and TV ratings
Journalists stand up for Kessing, finally … Nine throws money at itself — and it works for now … The beginning of the end … Last night’s TV ratings.
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.
