September, 2009

Catherine Deveny this week ventures out to view a performance by Australia’s own Manpower in suburban Doncaster. The question that doesn’t ever seem to be answered is why? Deveny clearly holds both the performers the rest of the audience in contempt and the entire article drips with sneering classism. It is interesting to compare the [...]

Today on The Punch, Simone McDonnell outlines her position on abortion in Australia. The abortion debate is one that polarises opinion whenever it is raised, with strongly held beliefs held on either side and very little middle ground. McDonnell’s position is that life begins at conception and aims to emphasise this with the following statement, [...]

The title of a Piers Akerman blog post on Monday: Former NSW ICAC Commissioner on Heiner DRINK!

We love having you comment here at Pure Poison but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So each day we’ll launch an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts. [...]

Today’s column from Gerard Henderson: Rudd not so special. Media compliant. “[M]ost journalists prefer Labor or the Greens to the Coalition.” ABC bias. In the interests of responsible consumption of alcohol, please don’t attempt to play a Gerard Henderson drinking game. But to be fair to the embittered columnist, we should note that: He does [...]

We love having you comment here at Pure Poison but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So each day we’ll launch an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts. [...]

The use of user generated content by traditional news organisations is growing as digital media becomes dominant in people’s lives, as does the culture of sharing it online on sites like flickr, twitpic and youtube. A good example of this was last week’s dust storms on the east coast of Australia, when news sites were [...]

Your comments are always welcome here at Pure Poison, but to avoid the discussion going off on a tangent we post an open thread each day where you can discuss anything you like. As the title of this post accurately points out (today at least), this is today’s open thread. Go to it. You can [...]

Here’s a thread for discussing the weekend festivities – I understand there’s some type of football being played, and there’s plenty of politics on the TV. Among this weekend’s line-up: Lateline (ABC1, Friday 10:30 pm) has David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers. Meet the Press (Ten, Sunday 8:00 am) has Wayne Swan and the [...]

In Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog post on September 4th he took aim at a recently released study conducted by Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh examining political slant in the Australian media. Toby briefly mentioned Henderson’s criticism at the time The Gans and Leigh “Media slant” study is useless because it has mathematical equations in [...]