The Rudd effect
Monday, 1 July 2013 Media analysis, Political figures, Tactics 53 comments
The lack of a convincing reason on the source of Rudd’s popularity, is not because political commentators are thick, but because the answer is uncomfortable.
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.
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.
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.
Where the problem lies
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Media analysis 15 comments
Tanner and Megalogenis may take pot shots across the media-political divide but ultimately it comes down to voters as the problem.
Review: George Megalogenis’s Trivial Pursuit
Thursday, 10 February 2011 Media analysis, State of the parties 11 comments
Megalogenis may lament the passing of reform, and the privileged role the media had in it, even if he cannot quite put his finger on what it was.