What has piqued your media interests lately?
media circus
A (mostly) weekly thread focussed on reportage/analysis of current affairs, social media storms and the political process. Share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis or pointed twitterstorms etc in new media. Discuss any current sociopolitical issue (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes – all current news items are on topic!).
Media Circus: 1st Tuesday in November edition
Racing around the track in Melbourne and to the polls in the USA, Budget projections, the expanding Jimmy Savile investigation and more. What else has piqued your media interests lately?
Media Circus: read my memoirs edition
Memoirs, asylum seekers, hurricanes and sexual harassment. What else has piqued your media interests lately?
Media Circus: fewer horses and bayonets edition
I just had to use that in a post somewhere! What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Media Circus: personality politics edition
Yeah, I know that’s generally how the MSM coverage falls out most of the time, but it’s ratcheted up a few notches in recent weeks, hasn’t it? As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes).
Media Circus: Fauxpology Edition
A certain oxygen thief is a national disgrace, . As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
Media Circus: out of step
Our leaders are cynically dodging behind parliamentary procedure to avoid properly representing their electorates, while another damning Aboriginal death in custody report raises scarcely a blip on the national radar. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
Media Circus: “trolling” panic swamps drug law reform debate
How unsurprising. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
Media Circus: got a Gonski?
There have been many leaks and many promises: how did the promised policy response to the Gonski report actually go down today?
Media Circus: you will answer our disingenuous circumlocutions exactly how we frame them
How dare Gillard get straight to the underlying point instead of following the interviewer’s planned choreography for her anticipated flustered blustering? The nerve!
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