I have had dogs all my life and the dogs of my life are sort of markers to the stages of any life, from childhood to old age. Rocky, well Rocky, with some luck, will grow old with me, writes Michael Gawenda.
Media
More cost cutting on the cards for Oz papers
More news from the cost-cutting front at newspapers around the nation, writes Margaret Simons.
Media briefs: Politkovskaya accused acquitted … advice for journos … Hitchens beaten up…
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
I survived Marysville for an orgy of ocker self-love
My emotions, and the way I’ve been talking about them in order to deal with them, have been hijacked by the emotions of “the nation” and its faithful organ, the press, writes Peter Chambers.
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.
Governments should throw newspapers a life line
American-style philanthropy is all very well but, if, here in Australia, the state supports a TV and radio network, why shouldn’t it also fund a newspaper, asksJeff Sparrow?
Ten shares on the nose of brokers
The Ten Network’s attempts to raise up to $90 million in an issue of 120 million shares at 75 cents raises more questions than the announcement answers, writes Glenn Dyer.
Sokaluk’s trial by police and media
The presumption of innocence is torn to shreds by the police. And of course the media is more than willing to play the game, writes Greg Barns.
Did Miranda Devine incite violence?
There is a smell of blood in the air as well as smoke, as communities, individuals and the media look to find someone to blame for the Victorian bushfires, writes Greg Barns.
A victory for journalism, but with a pinch of salt
Macquarie Bank’s protracted defamation case against the The Australian over a 2005 article about the bank’s involvement with the Beaconsfield Mine has been dismissed with costs, writes Chris Paver.
Troubled Ten will look for a capital injection
The Ten Network has become the second major Australian media group to blink and approach the market for much needed new capital, writes Glenn Dyer.
Fires spark a new front in the culture wars
The fierce debate over the role of fuel-reduction burning in preventing bushfires has exposed a deep divide in Australia over attitudes to the natural environment, writes Clive Hamilton.
Don’t blame the greenies, blame the lack of bunkers
The flames of culture wars are burning fiercely over Black Saturday, writes Ben Sandilands.
A bumper boost: crunching the Fairfax circulation figures
The only thing that can be said about last week’s release of figures is that for Fairfax broadsheets, there is no information that can be relied upon, writes Margaret Simons.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley Award goes to…fire reporting
With a sensitive issue comes the need for great sensitivity and accuracy. And so it was with the bushfires, writes Jane Nethercote.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley Award goes to…fire reporting
With a sensitive issue comes the need for great sensitivity and accuracy. And so it was with the bushfires, writes Jane Nethercote.
Whispers at Fairfax: restructure is nigh
There are rumours that bubble away more or less constantly in the Fairfax newsrooms. But are the latest rumours true? Margaret Simons writes.
Yesterday’s news: Circulation figures make for grim reading
Magazines and newspapers are doing it tough as sales keep on declining, writes Glenn Dyer.
Tabloid fire coverage slips into grief p-rn
There are two words which immediately spring to mind over the media’s coverage of the Victorian bushfires – mawkish and disproportionate, writes Greg Barns.
News Corp raises cash as more jobs go
Rupert Murdoch’s New Corporation is continuing its cost-cutting ways, writes Glenn Dyer.
The Australian’s fuel reduction obsession
With the embers still burning, The Australian’s obsessive, one-sided attempt to paint the fires as basically down to evil greenies continues apace, writes Guy Rundle.
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.
Victoria’s bushfires: a Crikey media wrap
As Victoria’s bushfires continue and the remains of destroyed towns are revealed, local media coverage remains in overdrive, while the world watches.
Twitter: enabling the new global rubberneckers
We can watch as much bushfire disaster p-rn as we want without stirring from home, writes Stilgherrian.
