Guest post by Ben Eltham: Useless pack of Bankers
Earlier this week at New Matilda, I explored the growing problem of the media’s fascination with corporate-backed reports and surveys. There’s already been plenty of discussion here about the BCA report into emissions trading, and my colleage Ben Pobije put [...]




Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable
By Mark Bahnisch on June 14, 2010
By way of ‘progressing the story’ from Saturday’s round of demands for Kevin Rudd’s political execution from has been Labor figures and mining company director Keith De Lacy, The Australian‘s caravan has moved on. Over the weekend, the paper made [...]
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