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 …
Actual intellectuals with passionate arguments = best Q&A ever!
I make no secret of my opinion that Q&A is the worst show on Australian television. But a politician-free panel redeemed the ABC show last night.
Q&A: intellectual Wizz Fizz or prunes for the brain?
Q&A is in fact not democratic media. It is nothing more than an adventure in autocracy, writes freelance journalist Gary Newman.
Daily Proposition: Watch television, up close
Ever wanted to ask Tony Jones about his drug use? You can at a Q&A audience taping. It’s just one of many shows that allow fans to see TV up close, says Alexandra Patrikios.
Shoe throwing does not a popular show maketh
John Howard may have had two shoes hurled at him during ABC’s Q&A, but the program - described by The Australian as a “cult hit show” - only ranked 23rd in the ratings, writes Amanda Meade.
Sue Cato spins for Gunns, not that Q&A let on
Q&A defends itself against allegations of impropriety in the wake of an appearance from Gunns spin doctor Sue Cato on Monday night’s program.
Q&A hates democracy
Q&A’s claims of being an “adventure in democracy” is true in the sense of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea being a democracy, writes John Styles. Q&A’s audience is vetted, the questions pre-chosen and conservatives get a raw deal.
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.
Guy Rundle: Stay tuned for the Argonauts
The Liberal preselection process is really fielding the A-team, with Senator Bill Heffernan making an appearance on Lateline.
Q&A with Tony Jones
Julia Gillard’s hair
Macquarie’s fee bonanza
Macquarie Bank has been a voracious buyer of securities in two of its largest satellites. Why? Adam Schwab investigates.
Direct access to the Prime Minister, Q&A style
Although politicians seem more available than ever thanks to media, the science of art and spin has given us less, writes Tom Carolan.
Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who’s Andrew Bolt?
Crikey / Jason Whittaker / Monday, 5 September 2011
We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.