Media
Clickbait is as easy as ABC
Sep 22, 2017
The ABC is revealing its values to be eerily similar to any commercial media fighting the eternal battle for ratings.
Mamamia said goodbye to clickbait two years ago. You won’t believe what happened next.
Emily WatkinsSep 22, 2017
Two years since Mamamia announced it was saying goodbye to clickbait, we look at some its clickbait, all posted just this week.
The terrible history of Roger Corbett’s ‘separate but equal’ philosophy
Michael BradleySep 21, 201715 Comments
Corbett's justification for denying equal marriage rights to LGBTI people, you see, is an old, old sociological theory, one you don’t hear expounded these days outside a One Nation rally.
You can’t ask that … Oz goes Chinese … Sadness at the massage parlour
Emily WatkinsSep 21, 2017
Awards for the ABC, translators at the Oz, and more.
Has the Rebel Wilson case squeezed gossip mags out of a business model?
Emily WatkinsSep 21, 20171 Comment
Rebel Wilson's defamation payout has commentators predicting the end of gossip, but paparazzi who supply their pictures reckon the mags will be fine.
Sky journo’s jog up the hill … Snapchat bows to Saudis … reviving The Economist
Emily WatkinsSep 19, 2017
Today in Media Files, Sky News political reporter Tom Connell makes a dash for it during a live cross, and the government has announced the new head of ACMA. ‘It’s probably a miracle I wasn’t tasered or something’. The things you do for live TV. Sky’s political reporter Tom Connell was put on the spot yesterday […]
Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings
CrikeySep 19, 2017
The Block once again dominated on a flat night all round.
‘The West still loves its sharks’: how Murdoch changed The West Australian
Emily WatkinsSep 18, 20171 Comment
A year since the ACCC allowed Perth's newspapers to merge, what has changed at The West Australian?
‘He should be stripped and flogged, the bastard’ … Faine producer leaves … raising shell …
Emily WatkinsSep 18, 20173 Comments
Gerry Harvey thinks Joe Aston should be hung (he means hanged), stripped and flogged.
Xenophon’s spare change helps (a) Crikey, (b), Nick Xenophon, (c) basically no one else
Sep 18, 20172 Comments
Nick Xenophon's media reform deal helps small, Australian publishers. We can count the number of businesses that will benefit on one hand.