Journalist and media watcher

Russian propaganda talking points would be very familiar to News Corp audiences

Christopher Warren — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:33:14 +0000

The Murdoch media has an enormous impact on Australian political discourse. But where are its ideas coming from?

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The certain death of local news is dragging democracy down

Christopher Warren — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:36:56 +0000

In most of regional Australia, local news has vanished from the community narrative. And local democracy is being gutted as a result.

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Kim Williams’ ABC is moving on from bland stability — and that’s a good thing

Christopher Warren — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:24:47 +0000

The past few years at the ABC have been a disaster: bland, uncontroversial, lightweight and in a permanent defensive crouch. Can the national broadcaster turn things around.

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Dutton brings the populist war home with anti-Muslim talking points

Christopher Warren — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:38:33 +0000

Peter Dutton's call to ban Palestinians coming from Gaza was perfectly pitched to echo through the national news cycle. And the media took it up with gusto.

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For sale: Murdoch’s grand dream, barely used. Available by subscription only

Christopher Warren — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:24:22 +0000

News Corp's sale of Foxtel represents the dying embers of Rupert Murdoch's grand plan for a global television subscription network.

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No, you shouldn’t give two shits about the Murdoch succession drama — it’s just swapping billionaires

Christopher Warren — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:50:31 +0000

'Despite the frisson of excitement over a few stray comments from James Murdoch over the climate emergency, there’s no reason to assume he’d be significantly different from his father or brother.'

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Why do journalists love the narrative that premier Neville Wran was ‘corrupt’?

Christopher Warren — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:43:19 +0000

What counts as journalism has changed a lot over the past four decades.

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Watch Hong Kong (not Reno) to understand what News Corp is really up to

Christopher Warren — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:11:53 +0000

News Corp's Wall Street Journal has sacked a reporter who was elected head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. In doing so, the company has shown once and for all just which side it's on.

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Are Fox and News Corp the only viable business models?

Christopher Warren — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:57:56 +0000

The legal case currently enveloping the Murdochs is about much more than a family spat.

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Nobody knows what will happen next — and certainly not journalists

Christopher Warren — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:57:40 +0000

The business model for struggling media outlets is to peddle in stargazing predictions rather than offer context and explanation.

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