Every now and again, I come across an article in one of the disgraceful Murdoch rags (The Australian, The Herald Sun [the Hun], The Daily Telegraph [Daily Bellylaugh] or the…
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Editor of the Guardian, Lenore Taylor, has written a superb piece on the craft of journalism1, part of which I have quoted elsewhere on this blog2. This quote in part…
You may have noticed in recent years that the use of the epithet ‘unelected experts’ is becoming more common among the covid-19 deniers and climate change deniers. The apotheosis of…
John Kehoe is a senior writer for the Australian Financial Review and writes on economics, politics and business, and surprisingly, epidemiology. I say surprisingly in the latter case, because he…
Among all the vegetables in the crisper drawer of Sky After Dark (SAD), Paul Murray has a regular spot, I believe; and like all the other people there, he is…
Journalism is not stenography. It was never supposed to involve unthinkingly transcribing whatever nonsense a political leader might spout about the price of meat or takeaway pizzas without making an assessment of those claims. It was never about a reflexive positioning midway between the views of opposing parties. If someone is demonstrably lying, or talking through their hat, then that is what we should say.
The appalling Paul Kelly, who writes for Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian, has railed against almost anything progressive in Australia. Indeed, he railed against the setting up of the Royal Commission…
Sophie Elsworth is the ‘national personal finance writer and columnist’ for News Corp according to her own profile on Twitter1. She has published in the most egregious of the Murdoch…