Tag: Australian media

The No Illusions Podcast #56 – Wendy Bacon on Media Bias Nov 2012

Wendy Bacon is a contributing editor to NewMatilda and has reported for Crikey,  the Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation in recent times. She is an investigative journalist with a background in social activism who worked at…

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…

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…

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…

Here’s my thinking about news “paywalls” Aug 2009

Pick any mainstream news brand site – News.com.au or TheAge.com.au – and take a look at the front page. Now, tell me – if you had to pay…

UK Radio Still In Decline Five Years AFTER Digital Aug 2009

I was doing an email interview with a journo this morning about the introduction of digital radio in Australia and I was asked if I thought, as the…

Are you excited about ‘digital radio’? Aug 2009

I’m running a twtpoll today about the launch of ‘digital radio’ in Australia. Of course, as far as I’m concerned, ‘digital radio’ is a pretty silly concept. Podcasting…

This Isn’t Terrorism Aug 2009

Reports today about the AFP arresting 4 men in Melbourne who were allegedly planning to attack a military base in Victoria is being called "terrorism" by the Prime…