By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2010
I’ve been wondering myself, recently, about the significance of Labor’s unbroken lead in the polls, which if memory serves, has persisted for over three years now. There’s little doubt that it’s Rudd’s election to lose, but, conversely, big Labor victories [...]
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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 April 8, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
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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 [...]
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