old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
What’s piqued your media interests lately? As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for items covering any current sociopolitical issue (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes – all current news items are on topic!).
Does the media reporting of the opening of a new bulk-billing IVF clinic in Melbourne suggest that only those who can pay should have access to IVF treatment? If so, is that classist?
Although isn’t it lovely that we do at least now have a Queen of the Sport of Kings? Kudelka nails the much more important announcement that this week’s distractions have successfully pushed off the media cycle’s agenda.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
The PM has announced his new Cabinet.
Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, a strong anti-austerity activist, has been elected leader of the Labour Party by a landslide.
Meanwhile, the Australian Labor Party is still led by Bill Shorten.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
So this week most of the mass media is purporting to believe that it is possible to produce alchohol from brewers yeast extract.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Feeling so much rage right now against the troglodytes showing their arses all over the internet and mass media this week.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Link of the day: as of 29 June 2015, 457 seperate referenced items of Abbott’s Wreckage –
What media story has caught your attention lately?
So this week marks a big round number anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. I’m expecting our Prime Minister will say something especially cringeworthy to mark the occasion.
What news items have caught your interest lately?
The very idea is undoubtedly an Abomination unto Nuggan, and Ed Milliband would probably make a mess of eating any. Bill Shorten will say something graceless, and the teaser for the SBS documentary will be epic.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Hoyden About Town 