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…
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[in response to a facebook post by the departure of veteran journalist Philippa McDonald from the ABC after $84 million budget cut] What a legend. Watch this. It is what us mere journalistic mortals aspire to have covered in our careers.. and we grieve the loss of so many of our fine colleagues to government ideological bastardry. Hope you are feeling smug Scott Morrison.
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…
Among all the vegetables in the crisper drawer of Sky After Dark (SAD), Paul Murray has a regular spot, I believe; and like all the other people there, he is…
Journalism is not stenography. It was never supposed to involve unthinkingly transcribing whatever nonsense a political leader might spout about the price of meat or takeaway pizzas without making an assessment of those claims. It was never about a reflexive positioning midway between the views of opposing parties. If someone is demonstrably lying, or talking through their hat, then that is what we should say.
The appalling Paul Kelly, who writes for Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian, has railed against almost anything progressive in Australia. Indeed, he railed against the setting up of the Royal Commission…