The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
Get Carter!
All sorts of dark conspiracies are alleged at Quadrant. Quadrant Online previously reported that the ABC had invited Bob Carter to contribute to an online debate on The Drum following their publication of a series of five articles by Clive [...]
Lead buried
Drum Editor Jonathan Green appears to have capitulated to braying demands for a false balance. Next week: The Drum-Unleashed will feature a series of pieces commissioned from noted writers on the sceptic side of the climate science debate. Included will [...]
To the beat of a different drum
With a fair bit of ado, the ABC launched its new opinion website, The Drum, on Monday. It’s edited by Jonathan Green, formerly of Crikey, to whom congratulations are due, as they are to Sophie Black who’s had a very [...]
The future of the ABC and of journalism
I made some observations a little while ago about Mark Scott’s A. N. Smith memorial lecture, principally concerned with his intervention in the debate about News Limited’s paywall strategy. Much of what Scott said has been discussed in a frame [...]
Women in/and political blogging Redux
The Crikey inspired revival of that hardy perennial – pace Jonathan Green – “where are teh wimminz?” – was discussed by Anna Winter in a post here at LP. It also sparked wide discussion all over the tubes. Notable is [...]
The Monthly, Robert Manne and Sally Warhaft
There’s some very good coverage in Crikey today of the dispute which led to the resignation of Sally Warhaft as editor of The Monthly. Jonathan Green traces the ins and outs of the argument – which came to a crux, [...]
The Wilson/Windschuttle Quadrant hoax: the washup continued
There’s an interesting debate proceeding on a post by Jason Wilson at gatewatching on Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant [previous LP posts here]. I think there’s some useful clarification of some of the ethical issues in the [...]
The ABC of Drumming up some online opinion analysis
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
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