This week we saw a thoroughly illuminating chat between mining magnate Clive Palmer and Lateline host Tony Jones.
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Media briefs: Aussie film v Schembri … ACMA probes 7.30 … editor reshuffle at ACP
In today’s Media Briefs: Aussie comedy takes aim at Age critic Jim Schembri (again) … ACMA to investigate 7.30 Clarke and Dawe sketch, editor reshuffle at ACP and more …
Mega Aunty failure: Media Watch break ill-timed given media inquiry
The end of the Media Watch season in particular is close to a scandal, a mega public broadcaster fail.
ABC taking care of Business
According to The Oz, management of ABC News and current affairs is reviewing its business coverage “after plummeting ratings for Lateline Business and amid management fears the reporting is “stodgy” and “boring”.
Daily Proposition: Turn the TV off at night
In a recent appearance on Lateline, Jonathan Franzen confessed he doesn’t much like to watch television at night. Instead, the lauded author favours a period of quiet, literary contemplation before resting his head, writes Alexandra Patrikios.
Media briefs: Mother gets done by media … selling the Czech farm
Media outlets f reported Kristi Abrahams, the mother of missing six-year-old Kiesha, had been taken into custody. Too bad it wasn’t true. Plus, Bitter Sweet truths and other media news of the day.
Legal action, and internal strife, over ABC Archbishop reports
Controversy continues to swirl around the recent Media Watch story that wasn’t — a planned probe into two ABC Lateline “special investigations” that suggested the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson had covered up paedophile priests. Andrew Crook investigates.
Garrett fingered over dodgy solar panels, but story ‘a beat up’
Dodgy home solar panel installations are putting lives at risk and Peter Garrett is solely responsible, if you believe the news reports doing the rounds today. Except, that’s not quite the whole story.
20 years of Lateline
The Oz looks back at two decades of Kerry, Tony, Leigh and our favourite late-night wonky pleasure, dubbed “the caviar of TV” by Maxine McKew.
Andrew Bolt, Lateline and the bias of balance
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has got the science on climate change wrong before, but that didn’t stop Lateline from giving him air time on the subject, says Sophie Black.
Guy Rundle: We don’t need new fast trains, Albo, we need new cities
When it comes to infrastructure, what we need first and foremost are not new rail lines. Not even fast rail lines. What we need are new cities.
Wong may backtrack on renewables
It looks as if the government may succumb to political pressure and withdraw its Renewable Energy Target legislation from the CPRS next week.
Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog: Tim Palmer channels Tammy Wynette
Henderson hits back at Rundle’s Murdoch/Stalin comparison, Leigh Sales’ climate change coverage, Bob Ellis’ return to ABC Unleashed and more.
Guy Rundle: Lateline and the ‘Latvian hooker’ index
Following Godwin Grech’s hospitalisation, there has been some soul-searching in the media about putting manifestly wrong people in front of the camera. Just ask Tony Jones.
Turnbull record is clear on executive pay and “merchant banker” smear
Spending four years running Goldman Sachs Australia does not make Turnbull a career investment banker in the overpaid risk-taking mould that brought down the global financial system, writes Stephen Mayne.
ABC clears ABC over Mutitjulu reports. Quelle surprise.
The Lateline scandal is a very intricate story. It’s also bloody fascinating, writes Chris Graham.
The Crikey F-ckability Index
We rate TV people on the Westacott scale.
The Monk’s not mad
Tony Abbott might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he is a decent bloke, writes Christian Kerr.
Bahnisch: Reading from the Karl Rove playbook
Maybe Australian journos don’t spend too much time following American politics. For reasons which are completely obscure, there was a bit of a “shock horror!” beat up about American pollsters advising the Labor Party, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Aunty’s digital focus continues to impress
The ABC’s latest annual report reveals some very impressive numbers on its ever increasing push into the digital world, writes Glenn Dyer.
War talk on Iran shows failure to learn from Iraq
The long-running controversy over Iran’s nuclear program flared up again this week. Superficially, it looks as if there’s no reason for conflict on the issue so a resort to war should never appear on the agenda, writes Charles Richardson.
My year at Media Watch: EP Tim Palmer tells
Tim Palmer, the outgoing executive producer of Media Watch, fully expects the press to jump to conclusions about his move to become executive producer of the current affairs program Lateline. Andrew Dodd invesitgates.
Need APEC access? Just be a Liberal candidate
Sydney-siders have been told by the PM that the lockdown of their city is the result of nasty protesters who have been banned from the no-go zone. Yet while some protestors are forced to apply to the courts for permission, my old Young Liberal pal John Ruddick and his Aussies 4 ANZUS crew have been given the kind of access other protesters can only dream of.
Peter Garrett? Who’s Peter Garrett?
Where has Shadow Environment Minister Peter Garrett been hiding? How is it that a close friend of Prime Minister John Howard is now more vocal on a major environmental issue than the man who once penned the lyrics to Blue Sky Mine?
