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Media Watch archives, 2005

Media Watch archives

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07 November 2005

Melissa's Stella revival
"Reliable sources"
Anti-Terror laws - part 2
Bob behind bars?
The Barra 2005
Jim Ball - believe it or not

31 October 2005

Northern Star showgirls
PC piggy or hogwash?
Weekender for sale
Fool's gold
Grand Prix online - a new twist

24 October 2005

Kiwis can be hoons too
The Age online - the great race
Seditious opinion? Lock 'em up

17 October 2005

Reporting rubbish
Brava encore
Bank customer or customer relations?
Syd spins tunnel
Anti-terrorism and media
Hall of infamy

10 October 2005

Just one Ronnie
Any bomb will do
The West - oversight not skulduggery
Mick Dodson in his place
Grumpy old men

03 October 2005

Reporters are dangerous drivers
Journos divorced from the courts
The Herald Sun and witness protection
The Tele's "exclusive" old news
The dark side of Dolly

26 September 2005

'Storm warning' on the net
Paper eats hoax
A dingo ate their ethics
Sandra Lee's phoney piano appreciation
Ray and the disaster game
The ABC of footy fun

19 September 2005

Latham strikes! (again)

12 September 2005

Finders, looters and the media
Media heroes?
Mark Steyn's defining encounter
Danger diets for the fabulously fit

05 September 2005

The Tele's sordid shame

29 August 2005

Fraser Coast Chronicle Busted!
Sunday Mail trashed!
Shock report: Media does good!
Journos to jail?
President's visit 'terminaded'

22 August 2005

A long scenic drive
Website Turks laugh on
Unkind cuts

15 August 2005

I shall return ... as a movie star
Advertiser cuffed
Cocktails or chateau cardboard?
Howard Sattler's inadvertent calls
Give Today Tonight enough rope ...
Sluggo's prize

08 August 2005

After Ten's ad break - death
Don't do that Hilly
Not so white folk
Phil Gould innocent!
Readers' letters?
Seven's knife trick

01 August 2005

The Tele's exclusive tales
Headlines jump the gun
Mark Steyn — mug?
Hatred — domestic and imported
The Sun Herald's amazing subs

25 July 2005

The Jim Ball prize
Big bang for my bucks
Gadget makers love gagdet guy
Sluggo takes the high moral ground, darling
Here comes the groom

18 July 2005

ABC's toy spy
Jailed for telling the truth?
Ozzie media abroad
Seven's terror ad
Cindy's celebrity real estate fantasy
Not that lonely Shane

11 July 2005

Sounds fast
Late news from Nine
Media bouquets for the injured
A new flower in Rupert's patch
Jim Ball cosseted by snug assumptions
George — boss cross

04 July 2005

Great before their time
ASIO gags media
60 Minutes and the mop of death
The Australian's incredible cube

27 June 2005

Monstrous marketing Batman!
Wood on Ten
The media at war on Iraq
Peter Cundall pulped

20 June 2005

Waiting for Jacko
Almost live
Media caught napping
Name withheld — views published
Free publicity — yeah yeah!

13 June 2005

The good old days at the track
Not Siev X
A marketing breakthrough
Life and death decisions

06 June 2005

The Star's Bum's rush
Rednecks rein themselves in
Sky's push for Asian subsidy
Robbie and Cosmo - at it again

30 May 2005

Capital punishment for owning a vicious dog?
The verdict on Nine
Protecting Nine's investment
Responsible or responsive?
Media trial or kangaroo court?
Feeding the beast
Feeding the xenophobia

23 May 2005

Volunteers abroad
Teles and Doggies go the biff
Media ambush
Nine's Corby rehash
Give Malcolm a microphone and away he goes

16 May 2005

Babs and someone else
The irrelevant people of the West
ABC errors: corrected or expunged?
Blogging credibility
The Advertiser's 'Maitre Des Art'
Spindoctors as journalists
Spindoctors as doctors

09 May 2005

J-O-H not J-O-E
Hostage video news
Wall Street journalism or blog?
Southern Cross news speculator
Photo 'proof'

02 May 2005

The Daily Terror
Bali 9: Ten has the evidence
Nine buys the Bali 9
Rick Ardon's plug

25 April 2005

Colonel or Cardinal?
The Bishop and the journalist
The ABC's Pommie digger
Donikian's own goal at Ten
A Ray of Sunshine

18 April 2005

The BBC's typical Aussie monarchist
Media drug dupes
Aussie's ad campaign is news?
The Australian Kwementyay

11 April 2005

Time waits for no man
Price, Smith and full disclosure
Deja Vu Kings

04 April 2005

Sunrise sheds no light in NT
Another miracle at SMH: story carefully checked
The news is not so new

28 March 2005

Queen Camilla's dastardly plans
Murder suicide - media assumes too much
The Examiner runs ads as news
Ads as news - US leads the way?
Read The New York Times feature article - 'Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News'
Review of last week's special topic: 'On' and 'Off' the Record

21 March 2005

Off and on 'the record'
Predators in Tokyo
Austereo winners are everywhere

14 March 2005

Examiner's nasty salute
Kids hospital scare in 'The West'
'West' goes crazy at council
'Herald Sun' horse's arse
'Ubit's' nasty name

07 March 2005

Welcome to Media Watch 2005
Jack of all trades?
Leunig's 'bestial' editors

01 January 2005

The Jim Ball Prize for media dupes and creative journalism
The Sluggo Files