Category: media 2.0

News Corp’s unconstrained anti-Labor bias May 2019

Following on from my recent post about needing to control the media in order to have influence over the electoral process: According to Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow…

Media Is Politics May 2019

I’ve been saying it for 20 years. If you want political influence in a democracy, you need to control the media. That’s why I started TPN. That’s why…

A Decade Of Podcasting Nov 2014

Today is the tenth anniversary of my first podcast – G’Day World #1 in 2004. It wasn’t only MY first podcast, it was a milestone in a number…

Best Australian Podcasts? Sep 2014

What are the best podcasts in Australia? Of course, there is the Life Of Caesar podcast I co-host with Ray Harris, which sits in the Top 100 on…

The Further Decline Of Commercial Radio Dec 2012

The recent “Royal Prank” episode of 2DayFM in Sydney is just the most recent scandal in current spate, mostly coming out of Sydney. Kyle Sandilands, Alan Jones and…

News Corp’s Anti-Science Agenda Jun 2012

“Big Bang Theory a Bust” is the way News Corp is peddling this two-year old story about Roger Penrose’s “Conformal Cyclic Cosmology” model for explaining concentric circles of…

Fairfax Board Wants To Influence Editorial Content Jun 2012

From the Business Spectator: One of Gina Rinehart’s closest advisers has argued that the Fairfax Media board should have the right to influence the editorial direction of the…

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…

Unfortunate Imagery Mar 2011

Reading Zite on my iPad tonight and saw this headline: Drilled down into the story to discover the young guy in the photo is actually NOT a victim…

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.…