Media inquiry announced
So the much foreshadowed media inquiry has been announced. Here’s the press release from Stephen Conroy. Some idea of the way it’s stirred the pigeons can be gleaned from the reaction reported in New Matilda. Elsewhere: Tim Dunlop. NB: Previous [...]
End days for dead paper and “Murdochracy”?
The intensity may have reduced since James and Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks appeared before the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, but the crisis besetting News International is still burbling along in the background, bunted doggedly onwards from [...]
Tingle on Friday: Labor must decide what to do with News Limited
Laura Tingle’s Friday Fin Review column, ‘This Week in Canberra’, has caused such a stir today that someone has gone to the trouble of posting a photo of it on Flickr.
Professorial piffle
BobKat showed last night on Q&A that he could name drop De Tocqueville, Mill and Shakespeare just as well as David Burchell, but with more actual sense (and fewer allusions to Montesquieu, Rousseau and “the ancient Athenians”). Funny how political [...]
Polls, polls, polls and the campaign for another election!
This morning’s papers are full of more petulance about the lack of an election result, and about polls. The poll being talked about was trumpeted by News Limited, but curiously didn’t emanate from either Newspoll or Galaxy – pollsters of [...]
The battle for Rooty Hill
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are both fronting up at Western Sydney’s iconic (ahem) Rooty Hill RSL for an event tonight which is not quite a debate – at the Opposition Leader’s insistence, it will be two separate town hall [...]
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 [...]
Guest post by Mr Denmore: The Failed Estate IV – For Whom The Poll Tolls
Regular LP commenter, Mr Denmore, is contributing a series of posts about shifts in the media and journospheres in the context of this year’s federal election. Mr Denmore has extensive professional experience in the media, and we trust you will [...]
Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable
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 [...]
They're Here! Asylum seeker beat ups
So, it wasn’t just me that noticed a prime piece of fear mongering occupying the front page of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (now with new editor!): <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/29-03-2010-10-50-17-AM1.jpg" The image of the paper’s Sunday cover comes courtesy of Crikey:
Rudd v. Gillard: Gillard's communication problem
By Mark Bahnisch on June 24, 2010
Those whose opinion needs to be taken into account when planning a leadership challenge are broader than Labor MPs, political journalists and tragics and the Twitterverse. It’s not an insignificant thing to tear down a Prime Minister in his first [...]
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