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Should online commenters register with a credit card?
I’ve lodged a comment today on Greg Jericho’s latest interesting piece at The Drum about privacy and freedom to comment. My reason for doing so is the confusion that seems to have arisen about whether...
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Is the media consumer always right?
And so, with the demise of 6.30 with George Negus, Australia’s dirtiest secret has been exposed. There’s no longer any point denying it, now the courageous programming innovation featuring the...
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Is an unfaithful politician fit for office?
“While it’s all very well to say political private lives should stay private, we need to stop glossing over the fact that infidelity involves a great deal of lying and the breaking of a profound...
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Political media, cure thyself – it can’t be that hard
In retrospect, it seemed a little weird. Twitter reported on Friday night that people were queued almost down to Darling Harbour for a sold-out Sydney Writers’ Festival event in the Town Hall titled...
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The big business bogeyman
It might come as a surprise to anyone who hasn’t done so, to learn that people who run major companies are not always the equivalent of Darth Vader or Ebenezer Scrooge. Not all CEOs of major...
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Did I miss the zombie apocalypse?
Here’s my latest piece at The King’s Tribune I must have missed that moment when we relinquished our brains. You know, that moment when we scooped out the gelatinous orbs that give us independent...
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Truth, opinion and Australian journalism
My life has always involved words: I was a bookish adolescent, a competitive high school public speaker, did an English double major at uni, worked as a public relations consultant, a media adviser, a...
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One more time (with feeling)
I’ve written before about the Canberra Press Gallery’s changes of heart when it comes to Tony Abbott. Back in October last year, I pondered whether the tide was beginning to turn when a slew of serious...
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Patsys, players and the future of Australia’s political media
Here’s my latest post for the AusVotes 2013 federal election blog… The most significant thing that emerged from the mea culpas and post mortems that littered the coup-that-wasn’t battlefield was the...
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Boston news coverage – first is not best
Here’s my latest at AusVotes 2013… Modern journalism is impoverished by the anachronistic need to be first. Once upon a time, in the pre-internet days of the mechanical printing press and morning...
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Coalition needs a better budget, not better PR
Slick media strategies and strong narratives are of no help to a flailing government if its political decisions are flawed and its policies untenable. Weekly column for The Drum.Filed under: Politics...
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Sorry Clive, honeymoon’s over
With any luck, the unedifying display of Clive Palmer attempting to bully journalists at the National Press Club yesterday will end his year-long honeymoon with the Canberra press gallery. Weekly...
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Are pollies’ kids fair game in political journalism?
It’s time to end the use of kids as political props, and for campaign strategists to concede the value of doing so is outweighed by the additional burden it places on politicians’ families. Column for...
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Iraq: troops stay, media kept out
Obama’s doing it. So’s Abbott. Repackaging their PR as “news” to avoid media scrutiny. Weekly column for The Hoopla.Filed under: Politics Tagged: democracy, Iraq, Laurie Oakes, media, scrutiny, The...
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Why the PM’s overseas mission was a PR failure
Abbott’s deliberate or accidental shunning of South Australia for Iraq at a time of heightened community anxiety has exacerbated his credibility problem. Article for The New Daily.Filed under: Politics...
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When propaganda becomes news
Politicians have been trying for years to get their message out to voters without it first being filtered by the media. Now they can bypass traditional media altogether by becoming independent...
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Peta Credlin: more Miley Cyrus than Greta Garbo
The Political Weekly: Peta Credlin takes the Miley Cyrus approach, Scott Morrison’s new three-word slogan and Turnbull’s warning to Leigh Sales.
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