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- Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief by Nicholas Gruen 20/06/2017
- Genetic diversity is good for the economy! by Nicholas Gruen 20/06/2017
- Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime by Nicholas Gruen 19/06/2017
- Dinner Party in Melbourne on the 22nd June: #WAINS? by Nicholas Gruen 16/06/2017
- Trump and the new world (dis)order by David Walker 16/06/2017
- A Good Walk Spoiled by john Walker 16/06/2017
- Australia, New Zealand, the OECD and the better life index by Nicholas Gruen 15/06/2017
- Fire and ice by Nicholas Gruen 15/06/2017
- A 50 per cent top rate makes sense by David Walker 13/06/2017
- The pervasive externalities of pro-social behaviour: who knew? by Nicholas Gruen 12/06/2017
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- Nicholas Gruen on What ails New Zealand’s economy: turning small size from a weakness to a strength
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Category Archives: Media
The death of newspapers: does it matter?
With Fairfax culling 120 journalists (in the wake of previous mass redundancies), Murdoch/News apparently contemplating more cuts, and newspapers in general losing money hand over fist, some pundits are suggesting that Fairfax at least is likely to stop publishing the … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Media, Politics - national
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Is Julian Assange about to get arrested? And what then?
Queensland boy Julian Assange seems set to walk out of the Ecuadorian embassy soon, hoping that the announcement by the UN human rights panel on the arbitrariness of his detention will protect him from being arrested. The baseline scenario is … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Ethics, History, Information, Journalism, Law, Libertarian Musings, Life, Media, Politics - international, Society
28 Comments
Don’t mention the war causation (the thoughts of Annabel Crabb)
The Twittersphere was abuzz with pointless debate a couple of weeks ago when Annabel Crabb had a televisual meal with Coalition hardman Scott Morrison on her perniciously vacuous program Kitchen Cabinet. My own views about that controversy are well encapsulated … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics - international, Uncategorized
23 Comments
Gotcha Journalism as bullshit: Propaganda v anti-propaganda
[O]ne does not go about identifying the weaknesses of what another person says in order to prove that one is always right, but one seeks instead as far as possible to strengthen the other’s viewpoint so that what the other … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Media
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Performing expertise: Getting drawn into the showbiz
In an earlier post I’ve talked about how ‘performing’ government drives a range of pathologies – in the case of the post I was suggesting it generates a kind of soft-secrecy. But it drives other pathologies – like bullshit. I put … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Economics and public policy, Media
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Calmly considering ABC cuts
The announcement by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the ABC’s budget will be cut by $50 million per year for the next five years has generated predictable kerfuffle in mainstream and social media circles. Whether it will have any real … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics - national
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Turnbull
Following David’s excellent post on the NBN, a somewhat related aside. Malcolm Turnbull was interviewed on AM yesterday about the NBN review, followed by a brief minuet around some current political dramas. What a contrast. By comparison, his colleagues still … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics - national
19 Comments
