Newspoll and climate change opinion II; partisan affiliation, gender and age
As a supplement to Paul’s post, I thought it was worthwhile posting derived tables of the breakdown by partisan affiliation, gender and age, courtesy of Possum. As he says, “Those results are pretty interesting in and of themselves!”… particularly the [...]
How (not) to do things with graphs
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
Grumpy is the new black
Jason Wilson has a spiffy piece up at New Matilda on the rise and rise (and fall?) of the “trollumnist” – the op/ed columnist who provokes for advertising’s sake. He instances Miranda Devine, David Burchell, Planet Janet and Catherine Deveny. [...]
Changing times for opinion
A further sign that we may be seeing the de-coupling of opinion from the news and journalism pages. The website will replace the opinion section on news sites including theage.com.au and will feature the best of Fairfax’s opinion writing, commentary [...]
Punched out II
There’s been an excellent discussion on a previous thread here by Phil about News Limited’s new online venture The Punch. To add to the reflections on that thread, it’s worth discussing what The Punch says about the future of big [...]
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