Archive for: mass media

Out to sea in a chaff bag

Out to sea in a chaff bag

Tweet Mass media induced group-think seems to suggest the Government is diabolical and Julia Gillard a witch — but that doesn’t mean it’s true, writes Letitia McQuade. Why we love to hate Julia Gillard We human beings are curious lot....

 

Independent Australia campaigns for Diggers…and gets bigger

Independent Australia campaigns for Diggers…and gets bigger

Tweet Independent Australia has a tradition of doing the compelling stories that the mass media miss or try to ignore. We have done this again after the Labor Government’s ill-advised scuttling of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits...

 

The celebrity royal wedding mass media swindle

The celebrity royal wedding mass media swindle

Tweet The media pay too much attention to the private lives of celebrities, says managing editor David Donovan. They do it to sell us things and to keep us ignorant. It is an unfashionable view in media circles but, like most Australians, I...

 

INVESTIGATION: Mainstream media coverage of WikiLeaks has fallen far short

INVESTIGATION: Mainstream media coverage of WikiLeaks has fallen far short

Tweet  Expert analysis has characterized news media coverage of WikiLeaks as being poor, inadequate and more akin to soap opera-style tabloid journalism rather than serious reporting, writes Andrew Kennis. War crimes, which deliberately targeted...

 
 
 
 

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