The government’s insistence on ignoring the Obama administration’s investigation of Julian Assange is becoming increasingly untenable as public evidence mounts of a grand jury and a continuing campaign by the US government against him.
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Mediahub takes up Oz Network … Facebook nabs Sydney student? …
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Community unites for Aurora victims
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Charges imminent for ex-Murdoch journos over hacking
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TV current affairs hack: why we’re bastards to grieving families
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On Assange, government defiant in face of reality
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‘On shaky ground’: Australians hate coal, so what do we do now?
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Commonwealth drops Hicks action, damns plea deal
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Today’s First Dog on the Moon
TOP STORIES
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The business of grubby TV
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The Oz quotes its own
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Power 50: premier Newman … minister Shorten … BHP boss Kloppers …
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Education and even Gonski is getting out of political reach
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Australia risks missing out on green energy investment
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How Iran silences the web … Kyle producer axed …
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Almost 200K turn off The Shire
Crikey Says
POLITICS, THE UNIVERSE, ETC
MEDIA/ARTS/SPORT
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The Games people play: exploring the ‘Olympic ideal’
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The plod thickens as UK papers face new hacking claims
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Market fear levels jump as euro, commodities tumble
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The ATO’s big new target: tax havens
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Will Billabong go for a bargain?
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Learning the hard lessons of education policy
BUSINESS
COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND C*CKUPS
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Could this be the beginning of a new oil boom?
A new report confounds conventional wisdom on peak oil, arguing oil supply capacity is growing at an unprecedented level — and it’s not as simple as slamming the report as a product of vested interests, writes Alan Davies.
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Should the West Wing be used to film campaign ads?
George W. Bush avoided filming campaign ads within the West Wing, but Barack Obama has taken a different approach. It has divided the commentariat, reports Jake Tapper.
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Commonwealth drops Hicks action, damns plea deal
The Commonwealth’s decision to abandon the pursuit of David Hicks for the proceeds of his book raises more questions about his treatment.
Why Romney and Obama are keeping mum about guns
Aurora shooting: what we know about 12 lives cut short-
Inside media HQ for London Games
The HQ for the London media centre is the transformed offices of the Institution of Civil Engineers — a grand building at One Great George Street, about 200 metres from Big Ben. Amanda Gearing, a freelance journalist in London, travels inside.
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Media briefs: How Iran silences the web … Kyle producer axed …
In today’s Media Briefs: inside media HQ for London Games … Kyle & Jackie O producer fired for Batman massacre gags … Harman family to not fund Daily Beast and Newsweek and more …
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TV current affairs hack: why we’re bastards to grieving families
The controversy surrounding the treatment of the family of 13-year-old Molly Lord ignites new debate on media ethics. A former TV current affairs reporter explains why they do what they do.
Why the iPad mini is going to happen
Former Murdoch nanny speaks out: ‘it’s like a war zone’
Meet Ryan Holiday, the serial liar ‘expert’ at everything-
book reviews
Forget all those stories about how material possessions can’t make you happy. Lionel Asbo is a novel about a vindictive anti-hero who is made immensely happy by money, writes Lucas Smith.
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theatre reviews
The lavish scale of Graeme Murphy’s new opera, upon which no expense seems to have been spared, is almost overwhelming, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
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Australia risks missing out on green energy investment
Australia has already been bypassed once by the world’s leading renewable energy developers, and risks doing so again if it makes more changes to its green energy policies, writes Giles Parkinson of RenewEconomy.
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Remembering Marilyn as a pre-feminism feminist
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Will Billabong go for a bargain?
We can now officially reveal the price that Billabong shareholders have paid for the stubbornness of company founder Gordon Merchant.
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Marooned on Spain’s austere coastline
As a Spanish bailout looks increasingly unavoidable, investors are worrying the country will be forced down the same austerity route as Greece, condemning its future and that of the eurozone.
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Is Rupert’s boardroom shuffle a last UK dance?
The direct influence of Rupert Murdoch on his newspapers has vanished from Britain, with the news that he resigned from several boards, cutting himself adrift from Britain for the first time since 1969.
Avoiding corporate crash out: reach out before you hit rock bottom
Healthy options spur healthy growth in fast good industry
Goldman Sachs and the missing $580 million-
A da xiang in the room: new emissions data
A fresh report on the world’s greenhouse gas emissions shows that a fundamental overhaul of international climate negotiations is needed to restrain global warming.
Social media hoaxes the new weapon in green activism-
A tiger in the sack: anatomy of breaking AFL news
Did the AFL know that player Daniel Connors had been sacked ahead of a 2pm press conference and if so did they publish information that was sensitive ahead of one of its members, Richmond, going public with the news?
