Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: media manoeuvres and their intended effects…
Spaminator spasms
Our spam filter right now is having one of its quirky times, where it mislabels more yummy ham as nasty spam than usual. If your comment disappears entirely* when you hit the “publish” button, then the spaminator has probably sequestered it. Do not submit the same comment again!
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend?
Rudd dumping cost votes?
I’ve added a question mark to the headline Fairfax used for its report on an ANU survey, an exit poll of 2241 voters in the 2010 federal election. The Australian Election Study – a detailed ”exit survey” of voters from [...]
Sense about the self
By sheer coincidence, more on the brain for your weekend delight. Julian Baggini has an intriguing article The self: why science is not enough in the New Scientist. I have a subscription to the dead tree version, where it carries [...]
This is your brain on politics
This post is a follow-up to Political brains under the microscope from Brian. Following months of peer review, a University College London study which identified correlations between certain brain structures and political views in young adults has been published in [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Climate clippings 23
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Quick link: Beck exits, Bolt arrives in right wing tv land
Trevor Cook has some thoughts on the coincidence of Glenn Beck’s departure from Fox News and Andrew Bolt’s arrival at Channel Ten.
Cate Faehrmann on NSW Greens
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has a column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald critical of the NSW Greens’ performance in, and preparation for, the NSW State election. Not everyone will agree with Cate’s assessment, but it has the benefit of [...]
Labor’s real and fantastical problems
Much of the analysis of Labor’s crisis (a crisis of faith and of its social base), most recently in the wake of Julia Gillard’s Whitlam Oration, has been, as John Quiggin said, too much like “Inside Football”; focused on the [...]
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