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…
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…
One desperate mother, two traumatised children, a gang of cowboy mercenaries, a celebrity 60 Minutes reporter with a six figure paycheque in her pocket and a cocked-up kidnap attempt in broad daylight on a busy Beirut street in a Hezbollah stronghold … Where do you start with a story like this? Let’s see. As of…
Startling revelations last week as the story-of-the-year-so-far flashed across our TV screens, daily news sites, Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds. Hashtag PanamaPapers quickly trended across the social media multiverse and the world was dutifully outraged by the revelations exposed by what has been sensationally referred to as “the biggest data dump in history”. And the amazing…
