The problem of the “political cycle”
Sunday, 8 April 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 31 comments
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
It’s a political crisis, not a problem of media ethics
Monday, 19 March 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 12 comments
Some journalists might at least make at least some effort to keep the hypocrisy under check.
An (almost) classic Labor power play
Wednesday, 7 March 2012 Media analysis, Tactics 8 comments
It wasn’t a masterstroke, it was just the way the ALP works.
What IR debate?
Monday, 7 November 2011 State of the parties 22 comments
Others in the media, however, are starting to look beyong the phoney IR debate and pick up the embarrassment the reality is causing the Liberals.
Book review: Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
Friday, 28 October 2011 Media analysis 7 comments
Far from wishing to undermine it, the Australian media is joined at the hip to the current political system and is getting caught up in its problems.
Culture war bores collide
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 The Australian state 55 comments
Racial/cultural separation, or whatever you want to call it, remains embedded as ever in the centre of our body politic
What a political crisis looks like – 2011 edition
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 Key posts, State of the parties 9 comments
This Parliament has an in-built disconnect with the electorate that is no more likely to be resolved at the next election as it was at the last.
Ideology and lunatics
Wednesday, 27 July 2011 Media analysis 43 comments
Whatever madmen do, no matter how horrific, has no political meaning. End of story.
Rats get caught in the same mess – London edition
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 Media analysis 40 comments
Wikileaks’ very inability to differentiate illustrates, it’s not that such press freedom really means that much these days anyway.
Ad Watch – Say Yes Australia
Thursday, 2 June 2011 Media analysis 24 comments
At least Murdoch recognises a political fight when he sees it.