The Murdoch media is, as former prime Minister Kevin Rudd has stated several times, a cancer on democracy, especially Australia’s1. He has called for a Royal Commission into the media…
On Monday (9/11/2020) on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Four Corners program, the lid was blown off the code of silence operating within the Parliamentary press gallery over the ‘private…
The idiotic Sky News host Rowan Dean has been the source of hilarity here before, because of his inability to understand science, and particularly climate science1,2, to the point of…
Every now and again, I come across an article in one of the disgraceful Murdoch rags (The Australian, The Herald Sun [the Hun], The Daily Telegraph [Daily Bellylaugh] or the…
Editor of the Guardian, Lenore Taylor, has written a superb piece on the craft of journalism1, part of which I have quoted elsewhere on this blog2. This quote in part…
You may have noticed in recent years that the use of the epithet ‘unelected experts’ is becoming more common among the covid-19 deniers and climate change deniers. The apotheosis of…
John Kehoe is a senior writer for the Australian Financial Review and writes on economics, politics and business, and surprisingly, epidemiology. I say surprisingly in the latter case, because he…
