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Ex-editors and journalists of the national broadsheet decry attack on Sally Neighbour and Louise Milligan. Plus: Des Houghton’s roving days are over
Did the Sky News host cross a line with her latest commentary on Daniel Andrews? Plus: accreditation for agitator with criminal record sparks a review
But new research shows the public did not share the negative view of Andrews portrayed by the media. Isentia has found that when the media discussed Andrewsâ handling of Covid-19, 75% of coverage was critical and 29% openly positioned him as incompetent. However, when the Australian public was asked what they thought of Andrewsâ leadership, 42% said heâd been a good leader. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAP Inside the state itself the picture was even rosier, with 53% believing he had done a good job as leader. The premierâs satisfaction rating n...
Stokes hired Cronin as editor-in-chief of West Australian Newspapers after he bought the paper in 2008. After the interview aired – and Weekly Beast heard it in full – we noticed it had been deleted from the 6PR website. A few days later Cronin returned to the airways to clarify, correct and apologise to Stokes. The original interview was reposted with the offending material edited out. We can’t repeat the potentially defamatory part of Cronin’s interview but we can tell you he said he was worried about concentration of media ownership, pointing to Stokes owning the West Australian, t...
Clive Palmer and Kerry Stokes paper rapped for spreading Covid vaccine misinformation Amanda Meade © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP The mining magnate Clive Palmer has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on newspaper ads attacking his opponents and making false claims about Australia’s Covid-19 vaccination program. The Australian Press Council, which monitors newspaper standards, has so far been silent about this potentially dangerous spreading of misinformation. But now the Independent Media Council, a press-council equivalent for Kerry Stokes’ s...