Originally posted on Uprootedpalestinians's Blog:
? July 31, 2016 (The New Atlas) – Political developments are often emotionally charged, and even journalists who are expected to maintain an objective approach to reporting can find themselves swept away by sensational headlines and the temptation to wade into controversy without fully analysing background information that might significantly…
Originally posted on The Wall Will Fall:
24th June 2016 Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire Who are the White Helmets? This is a question that everyone should be asking themselves. A hideous murder of a rising star in UK politics, Jo Cox MP, has just sent shock waves across the world. Within hours of her…
For anyone who believes Australia’s cherished national broadcaster, the ABC, is an impartial and objective reporter of what is happening across the globe, it’s time for a rethink. Any pretence of the ABC’s journalistic objectivity and integrity have all but evaporated in the heat of the Syrian conflict of the past five years. ABC Middle…
Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, speaking on national radio all the way from Vienna this morning, called for the ouster of a sovereign nation’s leader … while at the same time cranking up the campaigning for her own government’s re-election in the upcoming federal elections on 2 July. Democracy’s fine for some, but not for…
You just know it’s going to be a long, boring, uninspiring election campaign when the major issues setting each side of the great political divide apart thus far are … wait for it … negative gearing, bracket creep and a crackdown on superannuation contributions for the rich.
Many (many) years ago, an English teacher explained to our 9th grade class that journalism was supposed to be about objectivity. After reading any news article, we should not know the journalist’s personal perspective on the story. Ditto their political beliefs. The journalist’s role is to report the various sides of any given story and…
Disembarking a British Airways plane on the tarmac at Heston Aerodrome on 30 September 1938, British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, waved a piece of paper in the air bearing the signature of Herr Hitler along with his own. Before the assembled crowd, Chamberlain read the contents of the letter to which the two leaders had inked…
