Is it the ABC or A Current Affair?
Forget the old “Is it butter or margarine? I just can’t tell!” We’ve got a new test for you. Is…
The Guardian’s begging bowl blitz
Ever since The Guardian set up shop locally Australians have been treated to the excitement of a media outlet that…
Their ABC: at it again
And here we were in the reality-based community thinking it would be hard for even the ABC to trump last…
What was that about a gun, Senator Di Natale
Greens leader Richard Di Natale and his faithful amanuenses at the ABC and Fairfax Media have been hyperventilating since George Christensen’s harmless, if…
The three most important stories in Australia this morning
According to the ABC, these were the three top news stories when your correspondent logged on this morning: It’s amazing…
The day The Sydney Morning Herald turned into New Idea
This is it. The point of no return. There’s no going back. The once-mighty Sydney Morning Herald — and its…
Where it’s silly season all year long
Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy. Sorry for being so gender specific, so emphatically binary — let alone using the…
Another triumph from The Age
Have a look at the lead story in today’s Age — then have a look at the ad at the…
The Clementine Ford mystery solved
Did some new truth in advertising law come into force on December 1? Has the Press Council issued a new…
Their ABC’s seasonal stupidity
In many ways, it’s astounding that their ABC recognises Christmas at all. It is an explicitly Christian celebration, after all,…
Bet that’s the last one
Newspapers can be shameless — think of some tabloid campaigns — but the lack of self-awareness of the dying Age…
You couldn’t make it up…
Not just their ABC, but the Uniting Church AND their ABC. An unbeatable combo: Belief in the Christian God is…
Tony Abbott is a dual citizen
Tony Abbott is a dual citizen. At least that’s what the ABC appears to be desperate to suggest. Not overtly.…
A very special day in the death of Fairfax
The regulators have approved the spin-off and separate listing of Domain. It’s now time to crash The Sydney Morning Herald…
Let the poor pay more for electricity
An outfit called the Victorian Council of Social Service, one supposes, would be concerned with the less well-off. Apparently not.…
The truly pathetic bias of Fairfax media
Clearly spurred on by Mark Powell’s excellent piece this morning on the decline of its Sydney sister, The Age has…
Their ABC: “Vote ‘no’; you’re thick”
Remember that “respectful, balanced and impartial” ABC reporting of the same-sex marriage plebiscite we were talking about yesterday? There’s an update.…
Respectful, sure — but balanced and impartial?
It was only last month that ABC staff were officially warned by editorial policy manager Mark Maley “now that the government…
Another stinker from The Age
Another day, another reminder of just how unutterably God-awful Fairfax media has become. Today, in between the wall to wall…
When fake is fine
The failing Fairfax newspapers are obsessed by evil, wicked, right-wing, racist, Trump-loving “fake news” — obsessed to RUOK? levels. Unless,…
Fairfax follies on environment leave us green about the gills
Attempts by government to push power prices down is nothing but a “distraction”, according to the genius analysis of Mark Kenny…
Rotten pollies, rotten media, the chicken and the egg
There’s general agreement nowadays. Our politics stinks. So does the media. What’s less clear, however, is if one begat the…
The Age: proud to be a global joke
It’s official. The Age is an international joke. And no. I’m not talking about that “Is this the most Melbourne…
Their ABC on Barnaby’s bother: biased and banal
So, how’s the ABC responding to Barnaby Joyce’s little spot of bother? With all the class that you’d expect. Its…
Their ABC: entirely unaccountable
It is a thesis of Media Watch Dog that no one really runs the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Not the chairman…
