Crikey readers have their say.
Right to know coalition
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: FOI: to know what’s right to know
Hunger for a story v right to privacy: can the media balance both?
Am I wrong in thinking that there is a change coming in attitudes to the thing that so many in the community regard as an oxymoron: journalism ethics? Paul Keating offered an unassailable argument for sensible privacy legislation.
Disney lands some grunt for the Press Council
The Press Council is surely one of Australia’s lowest profile self-regulation bodies, but it may actually be on the way to becoming relevant.
Mark Scott: The trouble with reporting the truth
Today is World Press Freedom Day. ABC boss Mark Scott reflects on the lack of free speech, government censorship and media control in countries — Fiji, Sri Lanka etc — less fortunate than our own.
Right to Know coalition alive and kicking despite narrow focus
Is the Right to Know coalition running dead? Apprently not: it just doesn’t want anyone to know what is going on. Oh, the irony.
Chairman of Australian Press Council calls for accountability
Ken McKinnon, the departing boss of the Press Council, is criticising the media for failing to live up to its own rhetoric on ethics, privacy and independence. Namely, the Utegate scandal and fake Pauline Hanson nude photos.
Hanson photo affair undermines the right to know
The editors of the tabloids that ran the ‘Hanson’ photographs knew exactly why they were publishing these pics and I am certain the reason had nothing to do with serving the public interest, writes Michael Gawenda.
