Current Affairs

The gagging of Peter Cundall

PRESENTER Liz Jackson ended last night’s Media Watch with the “pulping of Peter Cundall”. Said Jackson: “What a relief now to get...

Read!

A FASCINATING analysis of breaking news-story-via-leak and the regurgitation of words straight from the Source’s mouth is published on the website of...

For Sale: the Fifth Estate

BACK from my combined liver-cleansing/depilation/colonic irrigation/parliamentary prayer retreat at the Zeehan spa and home entertainment emporium … And let me tell you,...

Stodgy, complacent, myopic

THE majority of Tasmanians probably don’t know it exists but those in the media and politics certainly do — and it’s won...

Little Johnny, Big Chris

Hag must say she was rather taken by that nice comedic young man Zeps at last Saturday night’s Media Ball. He did...

Rupert wakes up to Tasmanian Times

The Reader, that excellent blog-in-written-form, has done a nice encapsulation of Rupert Murdoch’s much-pored-over speech about the future of the Internet. His...

The Masquerade

The nub of Media Watch’s story was the ethical irresponsibility involved when journalists disguise opinion as news. For this professional misdemeanour, The...

One law for …

During a commercial television interview, Ruddock mentioned plans for Federal legislation to allow the awarding of personal costs against immigration advocates, such...

The Examiner eviscerated …

The Write Stuff

… read it all: Here Comment: How very decent of Garry Linnell and The Bulletin to give poor little Tassie a leg...