The Sky News presenter’s ‘interview’ with Israel’s prime minister — a ‘wartime leader’ she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as ‘not journalism’.
Mark Sharri’s words: Bibi/Churchill peas in a pod
The Sky News presenter’s ‘interview’ with Israel’s prime minister — a ‘wartime leader’ she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as ‘not journalism’.
Making her Markson ... the Sky News presenter with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mark Sharri’s words: Bibi/Churchill peas in a pod
The Sky News presenter’s ‘interview’ with Israel’s prime minister — a ‘wartime leader’ she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as ‘not journalism’.
LNP flirts with loony far-right sovereign risk
As anti-immigrant zealots plot the weekend’s national marches and the pro-gun lobby rejoices in the boom in guns in the country, right-wing MPs should start worrying.
Brittany Higgins, courage personified
She was the traumatised victim of rape, and then her character and integrity were raped as well. But she has shown she has guts and immense inner strength.
Mark Sharri’s words: Bibi/Churchill peas in a pod
The Sky News presenter’s ‘interview’ with Israel’s prime minister — a ‘wartime leader’ she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as ‘not journalism’.
Labor rejoices in the Barnaby rubble of net zero
The Nats MP’s anti-climate action dictums describe impoverished small businesses and people living in their cars but not the fires and floods devastating regional Australia.
God giveth and Judeo-Christianity taketh away
As outraged and heartbroken Australians marched around Australia at the weekend, just whose ‘values’ are propelling the Israel-Hamas humanitarian nightmare in Gaza?
Advance warfare faces defeat in Greens skirmish
A Senate inquiry will be out for blood as it seeks climate and energy truth, a subject often misinformed by far-right anti-net zero, anti-renewables rabble rousers.
Trump’s as happy as Larry with CBS shakedown
The US president’s billionaire tech-bro Larry Ellison will do to the formerly highly respected network what Trump has done to America: rape, pillage and plunder it.
Do you want the good news — or the bad news?
The media ain’t what it used to be, but then the times aren’t what they used to be either.
Trump, Epstein and the Rupert enigma
As the plot thickens, the nonagenarian media mogul has on one hand left Teflon Don out in the cold, but on the other kept him warm in the smoodging BS of Fox.
Letter of the law: the Don vs Rupe
The US president is suing the media mogul over a salacious birthday note to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein published by Murdoch. Get your hot and salty popcorn ready.
Time to pulp Jillian Segal’s antisemitism plan?
The special envoy has produced a report which is shocking in its authoritarian overreach and if approved could damage Australia’s democracy.
Trust the ABC’s news? We need one major change.
Truth be told, trust in the national broadcaster and other media is fragile, and Australians are entitled to know what journalists are paid for outside gigs, for what, and how much?
R U OK, ABC? You’re not looking all that great
The national broadcaster’s flagship Four Corners last night didn’t dig deep into the Coalition’s entrails, scarcely scraping the surface. And its execs need some friendly advice.
The dark cloud of Murdoch has no silver lining
News Corp, Sky after dark, Fox News … they spew lies and propaganda around the globe, and the evil empire’s tentacles keep wrapping around the fearful and the ignorant.
ABC chair is ostentatious over old-hat comic
Kim Williams damaged not only his role but also his and the national broadcaster’s reputations when he went into bat for a pushy, passé pub act.
ABC holds its breath over Dutton’s death threats
Here we go again, sighs the national broadcaster, as faux outrage over its journalism once again puts it in front of a Coalition firing squad.
Writing wrongs gets a bad press in Trump land
Threats, public ridicule and weaponised lawsuits hammer down on journalists (and world leaders) who try to hold the US president to account.
Foxy Lara, the newest star in Trump’s galaxy
The president’s daughter-in-law has the big names lining up for their time in the sun with the highly skilled interviewer hired by Rupert purely for her talent.
Hell of a week — and the heat is on us
Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Vladimir Putin: three stooges, but no-one’s laughing.
Bad blood and bitterness in Rupert’s broken clan
The Murdoch family is ripping itself apart, and the non-Fox media is having a ball with the ignominious car crash.
Reporter loses his bottle. My end-of-year ennui laid bare
When the bad and the ugly leave the good in the dust, even the most hardened journo loses heart.
ABC: ‘A major and brutal new strategy is needed’
In this week’s The Scrum — dedicated to all things media — readers take the gloves off as we publish more of your thoughts and comments about how to save the ABC.
Message to Kim Williams: this is how to save the ABC
Bring back The Drum. Stand up to Murdoch. The Politics readers want their ABC to do much, much better.
The ABC in crisis: blunders, cutbacks and sabotage
The national broadcaster is under sustained fire from inside and out. Do you have a solution? Send it to thepoliticsau@protonmail.com and we will publish a selection.
It’s past time to regulate – and protect – our media
Standards have slipped, trust has plummeted. Could a new professional body that holds members accountable to a transparent code of conduct stop the slide?
Democracy dies — and News Corp has a laugh
The Scrum, our weekly look at Australia’s media, is back. And what a time, with man of the people Donald J. Trump sweeping all before him.
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Or else say it is
Once again ‘anonymous sources’ have created a political crisis that has elevated Joe Aston’s new book into the stratosphere. But it’s taken integrity into the toilet.
