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Jacks of all, masters of none?
In The Last Days of the Polymath, Edward Carr writes about a declining species of thinker and doer in this age of specialisation. In an age of specialists, does it matter that generalists no longer thrive? The world is hardly [...]
Sydney at dawn
Sydney woke to an eerie and quite beautiful sky this morning.
Tabloid environmentalism
“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo. The website.
Punters pan the dirty diggers pay for play scheme
Yesterday saw another installment in Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to stem the tide of change…..or bend it to his will. Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good [...]
At the cutting edge of media experience
Well, I think it’s safe to say that a full scale war has broken out between News Ltd and Australian independent media operators. Posts today at Crikey, Larvatus Prodeo and The Oz’s Mark Day. Day amused me with this in [...]
Fresh OzCar thread
The Punch doubles down on OzCar with David Penberthy claiming that the email that is/isn’t is now a ‘red herring’ and that ‘Turnbull wasn’t shopping the fake email about’. Stablemate Paul Colgan says this is no longer about an email [...]
Sand in your shorts?
Ok, I’ll bite. Christian Kerr. There are the group blogs that cover politics, economics and provide platforms for protagonists in the culture wars; Club Troppo, probably the best and most balanced of them all, Catallaxy for the libertarian right and [...]
Changing times for opinion
A further sign that we may be seeing the de-coupling of opinion from the news and journalism pages. The website will replace the opinion section on news sites including theage.com.au and will feature the best of Fairfax’s opinion writing, commentary [...]
The shorter Hendo: Anonymous facts edition
Gerard Henderson’s email exchange with Amanda Meade over Kerry O’Brien’s age is one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages. All documented in his quixotic Media Watch Dog blog; Hendo goes for the throat and bites himself on the [...]
Re(a)warded
Because you’ve earned it. THE editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, has won the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper’s coverage of climate change policy. The award is presented each year by the Australian Petroleum Production [...]
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