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Another horror week for Seven West Media

Seven West Media wants to become a 'hunter', but with a falling share price and news of a restructure, will the company become a predator or remain prey?

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

It's time to ban climate denialism in the media

Climate denialists continue to hijack media platforms to erode belief in scientific consensus. The media has a responsibility to stop them.

Rupert Murdoch (Image: EPA/Andy Rain.)

Where's the News Corp front page on Murdoch's extravagant salary?

The Herald Sun loves to challenge Australia's powerful for pocketing hefty pay cheques. Unless, of course, it's the powerful people running News Corp.

US-style pharma marketing hits Australian shores

The American maker of a gynaecological surgical device is directly targeting Australian women, with a celebrity-doctor-endorsed online campaign which appears to flaunt advertising laws. 

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Australia’s other army: the government bureaucrats who spin, obscure and feed the media

Behind the scenes in Canberra, an army of taxpayer-funded media advisers pump out information that serves their parties’ agendas — and obscure information that doesn’t.

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The big muzzle: how a government turns information into political propaganda

The man who once ran media for the Immigration Department says Coalition governments are increasingly imposing regimes of silence over their departments.

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Australian media has an asylum seeker problem

Traditional media has been out of step with its audience on this issue since Tampa — and the government knows it.

Is it selfish to not read the news?

We're told we have a responsibility to remain informed of the world around us. But what if the cost is too great?

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A nice lie down: on news exhaustion and rehabilitation

Sick of political news after the federal election? You're not alone.

How The Australian has run a Holy War on trans youth

Crikey unpacks how the national broadsheet is selling anti-trans narratives as news.