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By Kim on October 1, 2008
[I'm borrowing the pun from Michael Bérubé] In the absence of any more “game changing” impulsive madness from Walnuts, all eyes will probably be on the Veeps debate on Friday – although our friends in the House Republicans or more [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged Culture Wars, debates, financial markets, GOP, John McCain, mainstream media, Michael Bérubé, Paulson bailout, political strategy, postmodern politics, Rebecca Traister, sarah palin, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, vice presidential debate, Wall Street |
By Phil on August 28, 2008
Crikey’s Eric Beecher was quoted in this Sally Jackson piece as saying online media will not be able to bridge the quality gap that’s being created by the long emergency we’re seeing in the usual MSM outlets. Mr Beecher warned [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, business spectator, citizen journalism, Crikey, eric beecher, fairfax, fairfax business improvement program, fairfax downsizing, fairfax sackings, independent media, investigative journalism, mainstream media, new media, online media, political blogs, quality journalism |
By Kim on August 24, 2008
Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down: Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics | Tagged balance, Blogging, Christian Kerr, free speech, freedom of speech, journalism ethics, journalists and bloggers, journos v. bloggers, mainstream media, News Limited political columnists, political journalism, political punditry, Possum Comitatus, psephological blogging, The Australian |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2008
Yep, Christian Kerr is talking about us. Among others. Guess what, we’re smug, ill informed, prone to conspiracy theories, full of hatred for the noble profession of journalism, divorced from the real world, an echo chamber, too academic, etc, etc. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Media | Tagged balance, Blogging, Christian Kerr, free speech, freedom of speech, journalism ethics, journalists and bloggers, journos v. bloggers, mainstream media, News Limited political columnists, political journalism, political punditry, The Australian |
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Props to Peter Hartcher at the Sydney Morning Herald for actually including some vaguely sensible commentary in his column on the Nielsen preferred Liberal leader polling, and not beating it up as “Voters Want Costello!”. Perhaps the Fairfax crew are [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Nielsen Poll, Peter Costello, Peter Hartcher, political commentary, political journalism, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian |
By Phil on August 18, 2008
One of the things that has given me the $hit$ watching Channel 7s coverage of the Olympics is the adjusted medal count; this thrown up when the “real” medal count doesn’t appear to meet early morning breakfast expectations. In Mel [...]
Posted in Nationalism, Sport | Tagged beijing olympics, channel 7, channel 7 olympic coverage, mainstream media, mel and kochy, Nationalism, Sociology, yum cha club |
By Kim on August 16, 2008
I forget who first compared the breathless expectation that the News Limited meejah and the Liberal party are indulging in over Peter Costello’s non-decision making to Kremlinology, but in the wake of the thousands of words wasted on idle speculation [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, political memoirs, The Australian |
By Kim on August 9, 2008
The supposition I had – shared by Lyn at Public Opinion – that even the diehard Milnes and Shanahans of News Limited might give up on their “Costello for Saviour” campaign in the absence of anything actually happening has been [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged $weetie, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, web and politics |
By Kim on August 7, 2008
What do you do if you’re a columnist for the Opposition Organ and nothing is actually happening in the Peter Costello Leadership Story? Write about Chrissy Pyne’s Facebook status updates as if they’re news, that’s what! Score one zero for [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged $weetie, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, web and politics |
Newspaper understands poll shock! And Costello breaks silence!
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Props to Peter Hartcher at the Sydney Morning Herald for actually including some vaguely sensible commentary in his column on the Nielsen preferred Liberal leader polling, and not beating it up as “Voters Want Costello!”. Perhaps the Fairfax crew are [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Nielsen Poll, Peter Costello, Peter Hartcher, political commentary, political journalism, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian | 9 Responses