Tag: media

Truth Goggles Nov 2011

According to Neiman Journalism Lab: “Dan Schultz, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab (and newly named Knight-Mozilla fellow for 2012), is devoting his thesis to automatic…

Occupy Wall Street’s big win in one graph Nov 2011

  “… the use of the term ‘income inequality,’ from less than 91 instances in the week before the occupation started to almost 500 instances last week.”   … writes Dylan…

Wikipedia Not Sure If It Should Cover #Occupy Oct 2011

It looks like the moderators at Wikipedia aren’t sure whether or not the #Occupy protests are significant enough to allow into its hallowed halls. I would imagine that…

NO ILLUSIONS PODCAST 27 – ADAM SHAND Jun 2011

Veteran crime reporter Adam Shand joins me again on the show to talk about the TWO films being made based on his book KING OF THIEVES, as well…

No Illusions 23 – “Atomic” Rod Adams on Fukushima Mar 2011

As I mentioned on episode #22, Rod Adams (@atomicrod) is a self-professed nuclear energy “obsessive” since 1981. He writes at the Atomic Insights blog and has produced the…

The AG’s Letter Feb 2011

Yesterday I received this letter from the Attorney-General’s office. It was sent to my work address. It says “Thank you for your recent correspondence…” but I never sent…

Wikileaks : The Talking Points Dec 2010

This is a quick guide to the most recent Wikileaks news, for those people who can’t be bothered reading it in detail. I’ve discovered lately that a few…

Bias in Assange News Coverage Nov 2010

How many news orgs, in their coverage of the rape allegations against Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange, mention the whole story, i.e that both the Prosecution and the Defense…

Julian Assange at TED July 2010 Jul 2010

Australia’s most impressive media entrepreneur, Julian Assange, explains how Wikileaks works and provides some insight into recent events, in this recent interview with Wired’s Chris Anderson at TED.…

News Corp’s Facebook Scare Campaign Apr 2010

This morning I ran a quick experiment. I searched through News.com.au’s site for stories that mention Facebook in the title to see what percentage of those stories had…