The real Australia
Real Australians from the award-winning Sentence Management Unit at Wolston Correctional Centre Now that the issue of Haneef's incarceration has been resolved, attention has turned...
Panel discussions, festivals of ideas and organising a ball
A whip around a couple of sites commenting on the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and the issue of 'MSM v blogging' leads me to post...
Can you handle the truth II: does everybody lie and does it matter?
In recent weeks on clubtroppo and elsewhere, there's been a lot of attention given to untruthful journalism, media bias, and lying politicians. The situation appears...
Feeding the chooks?
Earlier today here at Troppo, Nicholas Gruen picked up on outgoing British PM Tony Blair's op-ed lament about the instatiable appetite of the modern mass...
The power of newspaper spin
It is clear to everyone with eyes that the Murdoch press, and especially The Australian, is currently campaigning actively for Howard. The editorials and opinion...
Couldn’t agree more Tony
Tony Blair on modern politics. From Crikey, but you can read more (pdf) here. The media world -- like everything else -- is becoming more...
Could publishing perish?
This post follows on from a discussion begun by Paul Fritjers and continued HERE. Most human activity has changed drastically over our lifetimes. And the...