commentary
The National Times
By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2009
Fairfax has revived an old masthead for its new opinion site. In some ways, that’s probably the most interesting aspect of the launch – those who remember the old National Times might well also recall the days when genuinely hard [...]
Posted in Advertising, Consumerism, Media, The Web | Tagged analysis, business models, co-creation, commentary, Darrin Goodsir, David Marr, fairfax, future of journalism, immaterial labour, Jason Whittaker, journalism, margaret simons, Media, MuMbrella, National Times, News Limited, online media, online opinion, paywall, The Punch, web 2.0, web design | 13 Responses
Campaign commentary live!
By Mark Bahnisch on March 5, 2009
I’ll be talking to John Barron about the state campaign on the ABC News radio’s Drive program this afternoon – sometime between 4.45 and 5.15 pm Queensland time. Update: Just a reminder that my election blogging is over at Pineapple [...]
Posted in Media, Notices, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged commentary, Drive, interview, John Barron, Mark Bahnisch, Queensland election 2009 | 10 Responses
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses
US election: links post
By Kim on November 4, 2008
Excitement, or maybe nerves, is building: I’ll admit it. I just can’t concentrate. How many times can I check 538, pollster, or real clear politics? Hundreds of times a day. I arrived at my office at 8AM with the best [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Polls, Religion, Sociology, USA | Tagged analysis, barack obama, blogosphere, Bradley effect, Christopher Shays, commentary, John McCain, links post, New England, sarah palin, South, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 25 Responses
Breaking the CPRS deadlock
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
Almost two weeks ago, I suggested that something positive might come of The Greens’ suggestion that Ross Garnaut’s interim measure on carbon emissions should be the circuit breaker for the CPRS impasse. In the intervening period, I’ve been surprised that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, carbon emissions, carbon tax, climate change policy, commentary, cprs, double dissolution, ets, Judith Troeth, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Media, nick xenophon, Penny Wong, political strategy, Ross Garnaaut, Rudd government, Senate, The Greens | 72 Responses