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Media briefs: FitzShameless Awards … Oscars’ golden silence … Leveson latest …
In today’s Media Briefs: silence is golden in Oscar nominations … introducing The FitzShameless Awards … bottoms up at the Leveson inquiry and more …
Crikey Says: The good, the bad, and the sexy
It’s the winners of the Crikey Readers’ Choice awards! Lyn White of Animals Australia wins the Crikey Readers’ Choice Person of the Year for 2011. Plus the sexiest pollies.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Julian Assange is not a journalist
Crikey readers have their say.
Wikileaks Keane: why I signed a letter in support of Julian Assange
As an Australian citizen, Assange has a right to expect his government will seek to ensure that he is accorded due process by other countries seeking to prosecute him.
Crikey Says: Attorney-General Roxon’s to-do list
Nicola Roxon’s appointment as Australia’s first female Attorney-General presents several opportunities to address issues handled poorly by Robert McClelland.
Guy Rundle: Julian Assange given a legal lifeline, Supreme Court to hear his appeal
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange won a small battle against the push to extradite him to Sweden, with the High Court allowing him the opportunity to petition the Supreme Court to hear his appeal.
Media briefs: Leveson inquiry latest … SBS launches ethnic diversity forum …
In today’s Media Briefs: SBS launches forum, TV debate on ethnic diversity … time for New York Times staffers to rat out their colleagues … OzTAM networking coding tactics and more …
The Spy Files, where power is visible (and that’s a good thing)
Newspapers and other mainstream media organisations are incapable of guaranteeing confidentiality, no matter what claims they make to their sources.
Rundle: DSK, Assange and the intersection between conspiracy and violence
An investigation by Edward Jay Epstein in The New York Review of Books has re-opened the whole Dominic Strauss-Kahn matter dramatically and highlights the intersection between so called conspiracy theories and s-xual violence.
What the whereabouts of Julian Assange tell us about how power works
Amongst so many other things, the current whereabouts of Julian Assange tells us that ‘They’ and ‘Them’ still exist and know how to run things. Does that sound too much like conspiracy country? Peter Chambers explains.
Walkley Awards decide Julian Assange is a journalist
The awarding of WikiLeaks with the prize for contribution to journalism in last night’s Walkey awards raises once again the questions of what is a journalist and what is journalism?
Assange and Rudd: the government’s strange lack of curiosity
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd’s answers about the Julian Assange extradition case suggest a distinct lack of curiosity about what the Americans plan for the WikiLeaks founder.
Assange case: it’s time for Gillard to ask Obama some important questions
If freedom of the press and the protection of Australian citizens mean anything to our nation and our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard needs to have a meaningful discussion with Barack Obama about Julian Assange, writes Jennifer Robinson.
Media briefs: Reviving Queen Victoria… Leveson inquiry latest …
At news.com.au, the queen is dead, long live the queen. Plus, our Front Page of the Day and The Department of Corrections picks and other media news from around the glove.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Doug Cameron for PM?
Crikey readers have their say.
Rundle: Assange needs to turn his predicament into a wider cause
Sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, the appeals court dismissed all four separate arguments made by Assange’s legal team, thus committing him to extradition to Sweden, should the Supreme Court refuse to review the appeal.
Rundle: court upholds Assange
extradition
By the end of November, Julian Assange will have spent a year either in remand or bailed to house curfew, with an electronic tag – the maximum amount of time he could have been jailed were he to be charged and convicted on the accusations made.
Rundle's ruminations: The humble credit card is now a political tool
WikiLeaks has been so dependent on the business model built up during the commercialisation of the web — that all one needs to do is get people people to hit the “confirm payment” button — that the withdrawal of such became a political tool.
Crikey Says: The slow financial strangulation of WikiLeaks
The slow financial strangulation of WikiLeaks by the major credit card institutions Mastercard, Visa and online payment giant PayPal, has certainly harmed the whistleblower organisation’s capacity to embarrass the world’s governments.
Media briefs: Jacko death bed … Australia Network decision … Assange’s book fail …
In today’s Media Briefs: Michael Jackson death pic … Kwark still saving the old world … Australia Network contract decision imminent … Assange misses chart and more …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Letting the fireworks out of the bag
Crikey readers have their say.
Assange bio: not a manuscript anyone would intend to publish
They were putting copies of Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography in the window of Waterstone’s this morning when I arrived to buy a copy, which was cool — I really thought that was no more than a movie cliché, writes Guy Rundle.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Remembering Guy Fawkes Night
Kindle winners: Crikey writes: As if a subscription to Crikey isn’t inherently valuable enough, there’s a reasonable chance you could pick up your very own Amazon Kindle 3G+Wi-Fi, too. We’re giving away 10 over the next 10 days. Thursday’s winner is Lucinda Fairrie — congratulations. Four gone — six to go — get your entry in today. A Fawkes in opinion: […]
Guy Rundle: Assange denounces publication of ‘unauthorised bio’
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange’s much-talked of book is being released in Britain today, following a sudden announcement from publishers Canongate.
