One Australian new media start-up is using sophisticated software to trawl tweets, and from that constructs a media outlet more or less automatically, featuring the things we are all talking about. Meet The Wall.
Mainstream media coverage
Sideshow Alley: A pair of black court shoes
Each week we’ll nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians and at the end of each month we’ll be asking Lindsay Tanner to write through his pick of the best/worst example.
The new flood emergency in Vic: ‘bigger than anyone can remember’
Much of rural Victorian is braced for floods worse than even the oldest residents can remember. Hundreds of houses across the state’s north and west are under threat, report Amber Jamieson and Jason Whittaker.
The Chronicle gets through, as Toowoomba surveys carnage
On the first day of major flash flooding in Toowoomba the 89-year-old Toowoomba Chronicle was delivered as usual.
Five great news hoaxes
From Hitler’s diaries to revolvers in Georgia, Daniel Finkelstein looks at the best news pranks.
Victorian bushfires: disaster p-rn and story telling
The Victorian bushfires could be an opportunity for new relationships between media and public. Instead, the worst of the coverage has been formulaic, writes Margaret Simons.
Gawenda: journalists move on, disaster remains
Media not only covers an event like the Victorian fires, but in a sense, creates and defines it as well, writes Michael Gawenda.
Yuendumu: the pool, the press, protocols and permits
There are real local concerns about false links between the swimming pool and Macklin’s NT Intervention and whether journalists get and write their stories in a fair, balanced way, writes Bob Gosford.
Four Corners’ sloppy sub-prime rehash
Four Corners attracted 910,000 viewers last night for a program that was a bit of a con, writes Glenn Dyer.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Daily Tele turns anti-racism protesters into racist thugs … “Ray to quit”… again? … The earth moves at Ten … Letter of the Day … Last night’s TV ratings.
