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Kerr: Rattled Rudd stops tweeting, starts talking

House Rules / Thursday, 5 November 2009

That crappy Newspoll rating must have really scared Kevin Rudd, because he’s gone on a media rampage. But none of that normal tweeting stuff for our PM 2.0, it’s back to traditional media and a television interview blitz, notes Christian Kerr.

Political snippets: An election coming on

Crikey / Richard Farmer / Tuesday, 13 October 2009

When a State Attorney General starts talking of a group of young, predominantly Aboriginal, people as “pure evil” you are reminded that there is an election coming on.

If ABC presenters were cakes

The Enthusiast / Friday, 2 October 2009

Auntie has released a cookbook of cakes shaped like its kids’ TV show characters — but what about the grown-up programs? asks Mel Campbell. Kerry O’Brien, Margaret and David, Ali Moore and more, imagined as cakes.

The charms of Spring

Crikey / Firstdog / Thursday, 3 September 2009

Even the media elite are not immune

Broadcast politics part 2: after the interview

Crikey / Bernard Keane / Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Political broadcast journalism is not in a particularly healthy state in Australia. Still, says Bernard Keane. We should probably be careful dishing out criticism … we don’t want to lose what we’ve got.

Newsreader fashion: a Crikey field guide

Crikey / Mel Campbell / Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Have you ever sent forlorn tweets about Ali Moore’s cravat into the ether? Well, feel alone no longer. Mel Campbellprovides a semi-definitive guide to the sartorial language of news and current affairs.

Tips and rumours: 7:30 Report set for a new look?

Crikey / Wednesday, 22 July 2009

In today’s tips: “With The 7.30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien on yet another of his extended vacations, ABC News bosses have begun tinkering with the idea of wholesale change to the program next year.”

Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog: In which George Negus sucks up to Lord Stern

Crikey / Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Negus does the full fawn; Leigh Sales on Martin Luther’s Doubt and more in this week’s Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog

Shock, horror: Kerry O’Brien has political views

Crikey Blogs / Monday, 25 May 2009

While Gerard Henderson is perturbed, is it terribly troubling news to learn that Kerry O’Brien might have certain political opinions?

Tonight on the 7.30 report

Crikey / Firstdog / Monday, 23 March 2009

Kerry O’Brien’s Hair speaks with Julia Gillard…

A prime time flop from Kerry and Kevin

Crikey / Friday, 10 October 2008

How could a 10-minute exchange between Kerry O’Brien and Kevin Rudd not once bring in the key issue of Australia’s free-falling currency, asks Stephen Mayne.

Australian media: economic panic mongers

Crikey / Bernard Keane / Friday, 10 October 2008

There’s an air of panic creeping into media coverage of the financial crisis, and it’s not helping anything, writes Bernard Keane.

The horrid and gritty truth about the Republic – An Essay

Crikey / Firstdog / Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Nature abhors a vacuum…