So how about that media narrative now?
Over the long weekend, I noted the frenzy The Australian was stirring up about the purported deadline on Rudd’s leadership, built on a foundation of a self-serving article from mining company director...
View ArticleAn August election?
Rumours persist that an early August election will be called early in July. Parliament is only sitting for two weeks, and then won’t return until September. The delivery of valedictory speeches in the...
View ArticleQuick links: What's wrong with the media this election year?
A couple of very interesting articles popped up in my rss reader today: Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on the distortions of ‘he said, she said’ journalism (with particular reference to the RSPT) and...
View ArticleRudd v. Gillard: Gillard's communication problem
Those whose opinion needs to be taken into account when planning a leadership challenge are broader than Labor MPs, political journalists and tragics and the Twitterverse. It’s not an insignificant...
View ArticleHow the coup against Kevin Rudd unfolded
Today’s comprehensive coverage in the Financial Review allows us to understand how the Labor leadership challenge was orchestrated. From reading a number of reports in the Fin Review today, including...
View ArticleLinks post: Why the Labor leadership change shows our political system is broken
In my article in The Drum on Kevin Rudd’s political execution, I wrote: … we must now ask ourselves whether politics as usual allows any leader to wrestle with the great moral challenges of our time....
View ArticleQuick link: Matthew Ricketson on how the 24/7 media cycle helped overthrow Rudd
Mark’s article in The Drum last week honed in on the role of the media in Rudd’s downfall (among other issues raised). Now Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra, has...
View ArticleLaurie Oakes claims Kevin Rudd proposed a Kirribilli style deal to Julia...
In the q&a after a fairly predictable speech by the Prime Minister on economic policy at the National Press Club today, Laurie Oakes asked her a question which implied that Kevin Rudd had...
View ArticleThe political-media death spiral [Roundtable]
The title borrowed for this post is that of Tim Dunlop’s excellent article on the deathly grip the media and politicians have each other in. Read the whole thing here. A couple of other excellent...
View ArticleTime is not on their side
I’ve been thinking a bit about the News Limited campaign for a new election, or an immediate coronation of Tony Abbott as rightful PM (see Tim Dunlop). It continues today, of course, with Treasury...
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