Tasmanian Times
Media
-
905Lucy’s Story: Media Manipulation
The Examiner of 23rd August, 2013 ( electronic edition: Watch our Bass candidates in action ) contained either a terrible gaffe by...
-
1.1K
Asylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
-
832
Dream over for boat people back in Sri Lanka
On a beach in the midday breeze fishermen stitch their nets and smoke, waiting for the wind and weather to turn favourable....
-
895
Dead-Tree Media continues to topple …
ABCs: Newspaper circulations quicken nosedive, compact can’t stop to rot for Fairfax Newspaper print circulation maintained its steepening decline in the June...
-
767
Are news sites restricting readers’ comments?
Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but online news sites are now less interested in giving readers’ a chance to voice it. That’s...
-
794
Edward Snowden, meet Jeff Bezos
What we do know about Snowden is something we don’t know about the new owner of the Washington Post: whether he can...
-
902
Muffled Voices
In 1914 – long before television, the internet and the 24 hour news cycle – Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó published an...
-
867
It’s on: Rudd gets the Col shoulder as Murdoch telegraphs his punches
A little over two years ago I wrote in this column that at a gathering in the US of his most senior...
-
1.2K
Screaming print media
Julia Gillard, as PM, was up against Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, News Limited, the mining industry and the coal lobby. The result...
-
882
Helen Thomas: Feisty journalist broke glass ceiling
Helen Thomas was the tenacious and feisty dean of the White House press corps who covered 10 presidents and was a trailblazer...
