Category: Australian media

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…

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…

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…

TrueLocal Advertisers Deserve A Refund Oct 2009

I went looking for a house cleaner today and ended up on News.com.au’s TrueLocal site. I found someone in my area, clicked on their ad, then tried to…

Bad news for newspapers Sep 2009

Bronwen has written a great piece explaining, once again, why newspapers (and the companies behind them) are at the end of the road. Of course the argument for…