Rudd vs. The Australian
Some time ago, I made some observations on the significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s attacks on various News Limited papers, and on The Australian. The thrust of that commentary was that – the immediate antecedents of the stoush [...]
B… b… bounce?
Oks, there’s got to be some way to work this into a drinking game. Just to prove that political tragics are rooly cool like the kidz on West Wing and not strange nerds really. Possum has enabled a feature on [...]
Muting a generation
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Newspaper understands poll shock! And Costello breaks silence!
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 [...]
Political media FAIL
By Mark Bahnisch on October 8, 2009
Richard Farmer: No government this morning. For the first time since I have been preparing the breakfast media wrap for Crikey I could not find a story to list this morning that quoted a Federal Government Minister. The whole attention [...]
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