Pundits Blame Sydney Slaughter on Protest Slogan
The rush to blame the shooting on a pro-Palestinian slogan reflects the extent to which media serve as an echo chamber for Israeli talking points.
Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
As Julian Assange has nearly exhausted his appeals against a US extradition order, Australia has ramped up its advocacy on his behalf.
The Real Crime Isn’t Australian War Crimes—but a Chinese Political Cartoon About Australian War Crimes
Western media vilified a Chinese official for sharing a political cartoon criticizing recently reported Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
A Covid Crisis or New Normal? Depends if It’s Australia or US
While the most important lesson for US readers might be that a major Australian city is under near-total lockdown for infection rates that in the US can’t even get elected officials to require mask-wearing, virtually none of the media coverage made this comparison.
Melbourne’s ‘State of Disaster’ Is Covid as Usual in the US
While the most important lesson for US readers might be that a major Australian city is under near-total lockdown for infection rates that in the US can’t even get elected officials to require mask-wearing, virtually none of the media coverage made this comparison.
Burning Australia Gave Us Shocking Images, Few Solutions
Media have mostly remained resistant to addressing which human policies helped lead us to Australia’s fire disaster, and what will be needed to prevent matters from getting much, much worse.
Australia Wildfire Coverage Is Long on Koalas, Short on Causes
Media have mostly remained resistant to addressing which human policies helped lead us to Australia’s fire disaster, and what will be needed to prevent matters from getting much, much worse.
On the Depths of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Crass’ Roots
Taking down “Michael Wolff’s fat masterpiece of sycophancy about Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News,” Murdoch Archipelago co-author Bruce Page (CounterPunch, 5/15/09) counters Wolff’s “astigmatic lens of gossip” with “a true outline” of Fox/Wall Street Journal mogul Murdoch’s roots: Rupert’s father, Sir Keith, founded the dynasty during World War I as a dirty-tricks […]
Big Pharma’s Big Deception
Medical librarian blogger Laika Spoetnik (Laika’s MedLibLog, 5/8/09) has taken a long look at the international media “tsunami” generated by the Australian paper’s one sentence on “a fake Elsevier/Merck journal. It says: ‘The drug company also allegedly produced an entire journal–called the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine–and passed it off as an independent […]
