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The politics behind the competitive neutrality inquiry into ABC and SBS
The focus on the ABC raises questions about the motives behind the inquiry, and how it might benefit anti-ABC crusaders, including Pauline Hanson.
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Mixed media: how Australia’s newspapers became locked in a war of left versus right
Australia has little diversity in its traditional media sector, especially its newspapers. Social media is not helping.
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Sky News is not yet Fox News, but it has the good, the bad and the uglies
Is Sky News the Australian version of Fox News? Well, yes and no.
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When truth is the first casualty of politics and journalism
Donald Trump’s conduct throughout his campaign for President of the United States has brought into renewed focus a question made famous by Pontius Pilate: what is truth? Trump has exploited the 24/7 symbiotic news cyclone in which social media and the professional journalism of traditional media are both caught up. He first creates social media...
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'Islamisation' and other anxieties: voter attitudes to asylum seekers
Overview This research was commissioned by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and undertaken by the Centre for Advancing Journalism, both at the University of Melbourne, to discover the drivers of attitudes among Australian voters towards asylumseekers and government policies concerning them. The purpose is to contribute to public debate on an issue that has been...