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EDITORIAL: Protecting sources of Cash

The Government is in a shambles, but it's the faithless media we should be really worried about ...  
AFP raids and journalists speaking truth to power

'It’s not a complicated moral argument to explain why some sources should be protected and ...  
#CashOut: Is it ever okay for journalists to protect politicians who have lied?

The Cash saga reminds that a great many journalists are content to allow politicians to repeat ...  
The Code is clear: Outing a corrupt source is a journalist’s duty

The outing of Cash's leaking staffer by Buzzfeed's Alice Workman has divided journalists, but IA ...  
Moral Panic 101: Safe Schools and the new folk devils

Many social scientists of an older generation will have felt a warm glow at the appearance of ...  
Why Barnaby Joyce’s private life is a matter of public interest

Since MPs are responsible for legislation that intrudes into Australian bedrooms, their behaviour ...  
Who is waging the 'dirty war' on Barnaby?

Noely Neate discusses the complex motivations behind the latest rumours surrounding embattled ...  
JOHN PILGER: Clinton, Assange and the ABC's war on the truth

The ABC Four Corners interview with Hillary Clinton is an outstanding example of smear and cens ...  
Turnbull's NEG is his new NBN — guaranteed

Coal is to Turnbull's new National Energy Guarantee what copper was to his lacklustre version of ...  
Hurrah! It's Section Forty-Forganza Week!

The citizenship case in the High Court this week provides a fascinating insight into the overlap ...  
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EDITORIAL: The 'puntocracy' and the political game

It is not unusual for members of the Press Gallery and punditry to get politics dead wrong.  
Dumbing down Australia: Conservative forces seek to block new media and ABC

The expansion of public media is being messed with by big business and rightwing “friends” of ...  
Keeping us safe? U.S.-led coalition not even fighting ISIS

The mainstream media narrative that Australia is “fighting ISIS” in Syria and Iraq to “keep ...  
Shorten dabs on the pundits and the haters

Forget the myopic Press Gallery and his crusty political opponents, 23-year-old Caitlin Mary says ...  
Head-butts, boys in dresses and Abbott and Bernardi's shared psychosis

Bernardi and Abbott have been exposed as homophobic extremists who exploit circumstances to ...  
'The Vietnam War': The killing of history

A new American TV documentary series is rewriting the history of the Vietnam War, says John ...  
'Competitive neutrality' inquiry pushes ABC into turbulent times

The Government's media package threatens to break the ABC — and it may never be able to be put ...  
A radioactive wolf in green clothing: Dissecting the latest pro-nuclear spin

Michael Shellenberger is a nuclear salesman posing as a new generation environmentalist with ...  

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