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…
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…
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 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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…