A few days ago I criticised Lisa Pryor for this line in her opinion piece: “that is what reporters do; they write news stories from a range of perspectives”. Today, she has responded with a fulsome explanation of what she means by ‘perspectives’. Lisa explains, for instance: For all the balance and objectivity, the very [...]
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Fairfax journalists don’t understand ‘reporting’
This interpretation comes from Lisa Pryor in the SMH today: As a former property reporter, I know a bit about this tax. I have written news stories about the injustice of it, because that is what reporters do; they write news stories from a range of perspectives, including those they disagree with. But with my [...]
READ MOREBalance required in media coverage of global warming
Global warming is not just a big scientific, environment, economic, political and human story, it is also an interesting case study of what the media reports and doesn’t report. On Tuesday this week, the Australian carried an op-ed from legendary botanist David Bellamy in which he claims to have been marginalised because of his global [...]
READ MORENewspaper: So, let’s pretend the Internet doesn’t exist
I don’t usually subscribe to all the ‘heritage media, death of newspapers’ stuff but when I saw the Sydney Morning Herald this morning I almost choked on my home-made, organic, wholemeal sourdough toast. Here’s the copy from the ad that caught my attention: As the race to the White House comes down to the wire, [...]
READ MORERees’ rail disaster is a class betrayal
Anyone with the slightest understanding of politics would have known that replacing a much-touted metro-link to Sydney’s grossly under-serviced north-west with a cheaper but utterly unnecessary rail link to two inner-west suburbs would be a complete PR disaster. Nathan Rees, however, is clueless. Don’t forget the bizarre ‘love and traffic’ and ‘black panther’ episodes. The [...]
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