June, 2011

As regular readers will know, reporting on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a regular part of my beat. So in the interests of transparency, I want to declare here that I am currently a Chief Investigator on an application for research funding, with the ABC as a partner organisation. The application, which went in last [...]

In that great wave of innovation that represented the early days of newspapers, there were plenty of mis-steps,and  plenty of amusement. It wasn’t until much later on that journalists started taking themselves so seriously that they appeared on programs called The Insiders, apparently blind and deaf to  the sad irony. One of the things that [...]