By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2009
It would be interesting to study the role of the economics editor. In Australia, at least, those papers and media outlets which employ such a person appear to see the role as enforcing the BCA line on liberal economics, even [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on August 27, 2008
The Fin Review reported yesterday that a host of resource company execs are descending on Canberra on Friday for a pow wow with Martin Ferguson. Initially this meeting was being presented as a way of circumventing the BCA, who released [...]
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By Robert Merkel on August 23, 2008
You might have seen a lot of news coverage about a report by the Business Council of Australia that claims that Australia’s EITE industries – shorthand for “emissions-intensive, trade-exposed”, incidentally – are doomed unless the government hands out far more [...]
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Of media narratives, truth and narratologies
By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2009
It would be interesting to study the role of the economics editor. In Australia, at least, those papers and media outlets which employ such a person appear to see the role as enforcing the BCA line on liberal economics, even [...]
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Economics, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Charlton, BCA, commentariat, confession, Culture, cyber-utopianism, discourse, economic policy, economics journalism, ideology, Kevin Rudd, March of Patriots, marketing, Michael Sutchbury, michel foucault, Monthly Essay, narrative, narratology, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, policy narrative, productivity commission, reason, Rudd government, Sociology, therapeutic cultures, truth | 46 Responses