Category Articles - Media
Tasmanian Times: A Rage Against the Dying of the Light ...
Grant Broadcasters acquire new commercial radio licence in Launceston
John Hartigan: We will own the agenda. All day. Every day.
Chronicle 48: A master of the written word
Chronicle 47: The Long Streak of Piss
Poll: Election Comment and the TT Portal ...
It will matter to the ABC who is elected on Aug 21
Media warned on Princess Mary's privacy
Newsprint may soon be a thing of the past
Matt's a finalist ... first on TT
Election 2010 - Issues re future of the ABC
Balance the scales, it's election time
Book Launch: ‘Standing Strong: Stories of Courage and Activism’
In case you were wondering ...
ABC fails in bid to vanish Andy
Truth gets lost in media campaign
A suggestion for local politicians
Martin Gilmour new Examiner Editor
New Matilda ... growing, but folding?
Oooh Mercury: Come in Spinner ...
Call for Edge Radio financial support
Fiona Moves On From The Examiner
Forestry Tasmania goes bush ... and hides the cost
News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
Censorship: frightened and appalled
Paywall: Is it the end for Rupe?
I'd like some news in my newspaper, please!
Gunns and TT: Making sustainability our business ...
Comments: Thank you, thank you, thank you
Floor mops and the appalling Akerman
Bentley 45: The Bag Lady, Amy and the Pigeons
When the world is nothing but extremes
Tasmanian Times Traffic Report (2)
Last drinks: Fear and Loathing in the Newsroom. Why newspaper journalism has lost its soul
CALL FOR ACTION ON INTERNET ELECTORAL LAW
Rupert tells Tasmanians how to vote
Peter Cundall, hero. Rupert Murdoch, villain
Don't You Dare Look Back, Warns Bartlett
Bartlett Launches Ploy to Shunt Greens off Debating Stage
Leaks: Suspicion, cynicism and keen interest
The leak is the beginning of the story ...
The difference betwixt B and M
Tell Mercury what you think of it ...
The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
The currency quarrel with China is a dangerous distraction
Backflips, backlash, backwash, backwards
FABC Calls on Govt to Fund ABC News 24/7
Global scenario starts at difficult, ends at Doomsday
Science must end climate confusion
Last snap of the Old Dragon's tale [sic]?
The arrogance of ordinary people
Anti-mill paper hot off the Press
The Oil and Money Straitjacket
Radiohead's Thom Yorke 'disgusted' by Copenhagen summit
Climate deal cannot ignore rainforests
Who'd Pay for Rupert Murdoch's Climate Change Skepticism?
OUR ABC – Photo Exhibition at Federation Square
Ready, set, go ... 6.30pm Strathlynn tomorrow
Chris Masters on: Investigative Journalism Endangered
You can read all about it in Tas Times on 28 Nov 2009, or catch up in the Mercury 11 days later ...
Seeking to end Conflict: Comment thread closed
US: Pulitzer Board elects Politico co-founder US Pulitzers
TT's Strathlynn celebration: What you are getting ... and what you are missing ...
Thank god the Mercury isn't like this ...
TODAY: Last chance to celebrate TT
Starving trolls is key to internet harmony
Is social media killing the web as we know it?
How the Australian Gulf Country was Settled in the 1880s
How the U.S. Funds the Taliban
Coalition Still Seeks to Stack ABC Board
Why the syrupy start to the article, Sue Neales?
We are debasing and devaluing Tasmanian Times
Republic of Fools: The Evil Empire
Pokies: Bullying has done its job
Rupe v. ABC's Mark Scott: Two visions of Media's future
Climate deal 'unlikely' this year
Honduras pact crumbles over unity government
No Merger of ABC International Services without Independence Guaranteed
A day with a hyperactive leftist leader, Bolivia’s Morales
An apology is due, 'Lady' Fiona
ABC: Distortion and hyperbole?
Examiner: moral, not legal right
Much public activity in the old days
Greens Attack Free Speech in Tasmania
Full text of my edited Letter to the Examiner
Why good bloggers are good for print
Tom Ellison: They didn't have any guidelines about not printing those they didn't like
Aids for reading Tasmanian newspapers
My complaint to the Press Council
End of The Free Ride ... pondering further thrashings of the Old Dragon
The Fall of Rome: Media after Empire
Behind the mask…picturing politicians…
Why the newspaper is copping so much flak
The thrashing of the mediasaurs
Chavez says Obama did "nothing" to deserve Nobel
Statewatch on Sunday - Some pulp protesters shredding credibility
The Future of Journalism -- Stage II?
The Future of Journalism – Blueprint for Progress
The traditional media has ignored it all. Why are the shutters down?
Death throes of the Old Dragon and the woeful state of Tasmanian mainstream media ...
Selling Papers By Accusing the Innocent
Dr Nicklason calls for a completely independent and rigorous examination of woodchip piles
Lennon: Vigilantism has been part of the tactics of anti-pulp mill activists for some time
Five key reasons why newspapers are failing
The Chronicle (44): Like a fox
Oh, dear. New technology saves Old technology
Another letter goes unpublished
The Examiner put to the test ...
Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore on the Perils of Capitalism
Brits Protest Mandatory Vaccinations
Honduras Coup Regime ups the ante
The Chronicle (42): Kunzea up yer khyber
EU in tussle over CO2 emissions
Woman Bites Dog: Unequal Affairs in Australian Politics
The Chronicle (41): Life and death at the typeface
If only we could rely on our local media
Bugger the Pulp Mill, Sponsor an Idiot!
The Chronicle (40): Referee Turner
Methane seeps from Arctic sea-bed
U.S. must get tough to help restore democratic order in Honduras
More cracks in Old Media: James Murdoch's tirade at the BBC
Fidel - Hopefully I am mistaken
“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge
The Decline and Fall of Old Media
Swine Flu Vaccine Linked to Paralysis, Leaked Memo Reveals
Death of newspapers: it's the advertising, stupid
Gadd - Bartlett bungle could cost taxpayer $240, 000
Lovers of quality journalism ...
Agenda setting Journal of Note ...
Rupert and the death of hubris ...
Misinformation represented as genuine news stories ...
There are now less people doing the same amount of work and a LOWER wages bill
Free media versus traditional press
Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll
Queensland returning to dark corrupt past - 7:30 Report Transcript
You are right, it is troubling
Accurate, verifiable and ultimately absolutely correct
How I was muzzled at The Examiner
Crawford's tribute to Keith Welsh
An alleged campaign of covert censorship
This thread is now closed to comment ...
People's bank to break the Big Four
The Examiner: Sailing close to the wind?
Bright future for News Ltd journalism ...
Budget Response - Terry Martin
Register of GM-Free Farms, Businesses & Councils launched
The Chasers War on Sentimentality
Profile of Metiria Turei - NZ MP
Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy
Tasmanian Times needs your help
Another type of on line political publication...
Opening the door to inappropriate coastal development
A legal tussle for the right to communicate
Vindictive bail conditions axed
Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
Jenny’s Coffee House - Book Launch
Combet's attack shows Greens success
Did Sturges Fail to Seek New Rail Funding?
Conflict of interest in forest-based tourism management
Up to 80 per cent of media content is PR spin
A compliant press, a vision rooted hard into the past ...
A raving whacko, cum sex symbol ...
Stop press ... Read all About It! ... Future of quality journalism
When was the last time you heard any of the big debates in-depth on Local ABC?
More doctors needed. Not more politicians!
Major American metro goes fully online
Journalism students don't read newspapers
The American Media Misdiagnosis
Don't let snide comments and innuendo rule
Burying whales may put surfers on hook instead
The Crikey code: Ditto Tasmanian Times?
Obama's War with the Right (& Media)
It's time to end the slaughter
Arson, arseholes and the law: Part 2
You Can’t Sell News by the Slice
Forestry refuses to engage in community conversations
Young Tasmanian observes elections in El Salvador
Newspapers: slow, painful, unnecessary death
The Fat Lady is clearing her throat
Coming Out Proud Trust Announces Funding Allocations
Throw your weight behind Gaza in the PR war
Top Censored News Stories of 2008
January 5 should be the end of the road
Maybe Rupe's not such a bad guy after all ...
Armistice Day – Let’s get it right about the First World War
The Mountain and Tasmanian Times
John West, a printing press on a cart ... and TT
Bartlett congratulated on pulp mill stance
Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses
Murdoch's Golden Age of Freedom
Tasmania should be first in line for new network
The day the Mercury shot Bambi
Community calls on PM to protect native forests
Tasmania's Newest Senator to Target Education and Training
Chronicle (35): A Touch of Class
American journalism is in a crisis
Chronicle (34): The Woking Cowboy
Mass Media’s Global Monopoly and the Legal Freedom to Lie
Labor's public service blowout
The Chronicle (33): The Wheels of Ire
Negativity is not the best way forward...
The Chronicle (32): the stings!
The Chronicle (31): The Unruly Journalist
The Chronicle (30): The Tartan Terror
The Chronicle (29): The Inquest
PM backs culture of disclosure
The Chronicle (28): The naughty sub and other drunks
The Chronicle (27): The football match
The ad The Examiner wouldn't publish; the Mercury did
TT: Crackpot clearinghouse or forum of ideas?
The Chronicle (26): The Birdbath
The Chronicle (25): John Braine
Island down the plug-hole ... ABC avoids the splash!
The Chronicle (24): Herbie Taylor
The Chronicle (23). The Renault 4
The Chronicle (22): Enter Miss Norway
Cry 'God for Harry, England and St George'
How Screen Tas helped me, and Blue Rocket
Flat Earth News ... why TT has to exist!
Journalism: casualities of the Howard era
War of the Birds ... and horses
The mill, the house: Mr Lennon talks to JJJ's Steve Cannane
A telling week from Labor from your Insiders
Ah, so you were a journalist: the deceit of spin
The Chronicle (10): Diary of a hack (continued)
Is the sydney morning herald the new telegraph?
Tony Harrison: come in spinner
Glenn does Kevin, Glenn does Glenn
Media bias and double standards
MEAA: $10,000 to stop my election
The potential tragedy for John Howard
Uni journalism ... and the real thing
Scoop: Staggering times at The Walkleys
The Ex gets a makeover: Hello Illawarra Mercury
News is what someone somewhere doesn't want published
Investigative journalism: A Consumer's Perspective
Amazing Scenes: Fun in Journalism
The Barra winner cops another serve
Fox: don't believe all you read
Windschuttle, the ABC ... and Aborigines
Order of the Crusty Curmudgeon
Beaconsfield: Carleton memorial
Flanagan: The truth about spin
Four choppers, a plane and a princess
All quiet on the Wes Young front
The Nonsense! of FIAT and The Ex
Now for some new media thinking, please
Sordid pecadilloes and the media (2)
Sordid pecadilloes … and the media
Read! Is the media failing Australia?
Daft, inconsistent, nonsense, babble













