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So You Think You Can Interpret Polls?

November 8, 2009 – 11:52 am

Last week’s Newspoll result – a 2PP of 52-48 – sent the media into a flurry of speculation about what caused the Narrowing [TM]. But it was a single, aberrant poll result – at the same time, Essential Research came out at 59-41 (unchanged from the previous week) and last Friday Morgan’s latest came out [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged polls | Comments (33)

ETS amendments – where do we go from here?

October 19, 2009 – 8:37 am

This morning’s news coverage was fairly predictable, but let’s review where things stand and open a thread for discussion about the ETS situation.
Malcolm Turnbull won (I hesitate to say ‘earned’) a reprieve yesterday – hardly surprising, since it’s best to have a (viable) new leader in mind before you chop off the old one’s head. [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged emissions trading scheme | Comments (18)

Crikey and Bolta, on the same page at last.

October 9, 2009 – 9:00 am

It’s fair to say that Andrew Bolt and the folks from Crikey haven’t always seen eye to eye, in fact at times there have been harsh words and hurt feelings on both sides. Yesterday however, they have both been able to let bygones be bygones and come together to echo at least part of one [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (10)

Hey Hey… this wasn’t what we expected.

October 8, 2009 – 10:54 am

Crikey’s Ruth Brown gives a good overview of the international reaction to Hey Hey’s Red Faces blackface.
The local reaction is divided, Andrew Bolt claims that it’s not racist, just ignorant. However Caroline Overington says that it was racist and insensitive to a guest.
Rather than getting bogged down in discussing the act itself, there’ll be plenty [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (22)

Framing the debate

September 23, 2009 – 4:00 am

You can pick just about any story of significance, in any paper, on any radio or tv network, and you’ll find within it a piece of opinion providing a slant to the story. The most obvious example of this is the competing sound bites from our political leaders addressing issues of the day, but what [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (11)

How many Iranian deaths equal one popstar death?

June 26, 2009 – 2:50 pm

With the nation’s major online news sites featuring at most one story on the ongoing crisis in Iran on their “front pages”, just how many stories are they currently devoting to the death of Michael Jackson?
At 2.20pm:

ABC.net.au/news – eleven stories (although it’s a little unclear, since several of them have multiple links on the front [...]