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Windschuttle and hoaxes

January 12, 2009 – 3:00 pm

Last week’s furore over the Keith Windschuttle/Quadrant hoax seems to have died down – you can read a summary of some of the reaction here.  While Crikey and one my fellow bloggers at this site put quite a lot of focus on it, I must say I found it hard to get very worked up [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in Indigenous issues, media | Also tagged | Comments (1)

Too appalling to ignore

October 28, 2008 – 7:29 pm

I’ve tried not to get caught up in taking shots at the way The Australian newspaper interprets Newspoll findings.  There are enough other people willing to make comment any time they believe there are flaws or distortions, and there are plenty of other issues for me to focus on.
But today’s effort was just too awful [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in climate change, media | Also tagged | Comments (6)

Radio National Media Report looks at blogging &(un)civil discourse

September 23, 2008 – 10:10 pm

The main reason I was interested in blogging when I was a politician was to provide another way for people to access information about aspects of the political process, and to see if I could get useful feedback from people about some of my ideas and activities. To me, the comments are the most interesting [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in blogging, media | Also tagged | Comments (4)

Private lives of public figures

September 22, 2008 – 10:31 am

Having spent Sunday morning grumbling to myself about newspapers putting irrelevant personal gossip about a government MP’s marriage breakdown on their front pages, I unexpectedly found myself asked to appear on Sunrise this morning to talk about the topic.
There isn’t always an easy dividing line on this principle, as there a range of different and [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in media | Comments (4)