July, 2010

Weird feeling on the weekend. It seems I have been temporarily rehabilitated by The Australian. Only six weeks ago, I was being portrayed in the pages of The Australian as a short-sighted and foolish media commentator who was “on the drip” from the Victoria Police and the Office of Police Integrity. This, of course, was [...]

Last night saw the launch of the ABC’s new 24 hour television news service in an environment where the politics of reporting politics is at least as bitterly contested as the election itself. Our news media organisations are beginning to resemble the purveyors of Viagra with their claims to do it deeper, longer, harder and [...]

Shameless plug coming up here. Avert your eyes if you object. Some of you will know that I am the Chair of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation established last year at Swinburne University. For more on us, look here. We’ve got a number of things coming up, but this post is about the New News [...]

No comment one hour is confirmation the next, it seems. This morning I had a story in the Crikey email tipping that the ABC was dropping the sports presenter from it’s news bulletins. While the tip was strong, I could not get confirmation from the ABC. Now it’s come.