By Kim on August 19, 2010
… though although I’m nodding to Robert Frost’s famous poem, read at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, I don’t think Mr Abbott is going without sleep because he has promises to keep: on his own admission, we have leave to doubt [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on May 19, 2010
Tony Abbott’s 7.30 Report interview has prompted some bizarre reactions – not least Barnaby Joyce’s particularly unhelpful comments. The Coalition spin appeared to be that Abbott was somehow demonstrating his authenticity and honesty by telling viewers that his word isn’t [...]
Posted in Ethics, Life, Media, Politics, Relationships, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, Barnaby Joyce, Coalition, confessional, CPRS. backdown, Ethics, ets, great big new tax, interview, Jonathan Green, Kerry O'Brien, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, lies, lying, morality, Neil Mitchell, paid parental leave, personal attacks, phoney tony, promises, Still Life With cat, Tony Abbott, trust, truth |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2010
The other day, I mentioned Clive Hamilton’s series of posts on climate change denialism at The Drum. In today’s edition, Hamilton comments: Indeed, those who study the climate itself rather than the bogus debate in the newspapers and the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Disasters, Ethics, Language, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bayesian probability, cartesian rationality, Climate change, climate change denialists, Clive Hamilton, Descartes, discourse, Enlightenment, EU, European Union, IPCC, IPCC 4th Report, Max Weber, Media, methodology, regimes of truth, Science, science as a vocation, science communication, science studies, scientific method, skepticism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, truth, truth statements |
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 [...]
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Economics, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Charlton, BCA, commentariat, confession, Culture, cyber-utopianism, discourse, economic policy, economics journalism, ideology, Kevin Rudd, March of Patriots, marketing, Michael Sutchbury, michel foucault, Monthly Essay, narrative, narratology, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, policy narrative, productivity commission, reason, Rudd government, Sociology, therapeutic cultures, truth |
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 [...]
Posted in Advertising, Culture, Economics, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Charlton, BCA, commentariat, confession, Culture, cyber-utopianism, discourse, economic policy, economics journalism, ideology, Kevin Rudd, March of Patriots, marketing, Michael Sutchbury, michel foucault, Monthly Essay, narrative, narratology, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, policy narrative, productivity commission, reason, Rudd government, Sociology, therapeutic cultures, truth | 46 Responses