The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Quick link: Why isn’t the Afghanistan War a major election issue?
That’s a question worth posing, and it’s posed by Jacinda Woodhead of Overland at The Drum this morning.
Rudd’s words won’t hurt Labor, but it’s about more than hurt feelings
From today’s Crikey email: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night gave an interview to Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. This morning, Brisbane’s sole metropolitan newspaper characterised his successor Julia Gillard’s response as an apology to Queenslanders for hurting [...]
LP on TV
I’ll be appearing tonight on the tv version of The Drum at 6.30pm on ABC News 24. Update: I’ll also be interviewed on ABC News Radio drive time at around 5.45pm.
Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
Week 2 of the campaign: The week that wasn’t
Please consider this a roundtable to reflect on the second week of the campaign in toto. Specific comments on particular issues in the campaign, or recent developments, should appropriately be placed on posts devoted to those issues.
The view from Channel Nine V: The disappearing campaign
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. On Channel Nine in Brisbane tonight, the sole election story was the seventh [...]
Blanche D'Alpuget's Bob Hawke PM
I’ve had a review of Blanche D’Alpuget’s new book, Hawke: The Prime Minister, published at The Drum. You can read it here.
The Labor leadership legitimacy post we had to have
There is no doubt that the removal last week of a first term Prime Minister, elected through a largely personal campaign (and I defy anyone to assert that the Kevin07 branding paled into insignificance beside Labor’s party image), caused some [...]
Quick link: Matthew Ricketson on how the 24/7 media cycle helped overthrow Rudd
By Kim on July 1, 2010
Mark’s article in The Drum last week honed in on the role of the media in Rudd’s downfall (among other issues raised). Now Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra, has written an excellent essay for Crikey [...]
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