Election 2013 media panel
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Such an irony: the commercial television channels, which ran a landmark free-speech case in the High Court to protect their advertising revenue during election campaigns, have now censored an advertisement…
In a decision that has stunned many observers, Leigh Sales, anchor of the ABC’s prime news and current affairs program 7.30, will not host Saturday night’s election panel on the public broadcaster. And…
Well, what has changed? The Earth’s atmosphere and oceans continue to take in heat equivalent to four Hiroshima bombs per second; humans are forcing climate change 10,000 times faster than orbital forcings…
The great challenge for the Australian political media this week will not be that of accurately predicting the outcome of Saturday’s election. Rather, it will be to maintain public interest in what has…
One of the new phenomena of the 2013 federal election campaign has been the Australian news media’s whole-hearted adoption of the idea of “fact checking”. Everyone is checking facts – PolitiFact Australia…
Updated: Includes negative reaction to Kevin Rudd’s Reddit AMA. In all four of the five weeks of the 2013 Federal election campaign the trends in memes - Twitter hashtags, image macros, viral videos, joke…
I don’t know about you, but almost a week out from the election, I’ve become quite bored with it all. It had all begun promisingly, with a newly reinstated Prime Minister polling surprisingly well among…
The fact that the arts haven’t starred in this election and its media coverage is perhaps no big surprise. But it sends a disturbing signal about the place of the arts in our public discourse. When Arts…
British MP and anti-Murdoch campaigner Tom Watson is visiting Australia. Apparently he was so incensed by the Murdoch press coverage of the election that he cleared his schedule, packed his bags, and came…