Victoria Fielding

• Dr Victoria Fielding has a PhD in communication and media. With a professional background in marketing and communications, Victoria is interested in political and media communication; in particular, the framing of political contestation in news media.

  She comments regularly on media and politics on her blog, mediainequality.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @DrVicFielding.

Articles written by Victoria Fielding (122)

• 3 March 2026 | Commander in cheat: Why Trump’s lies are the foundation of his power
• 13 February 2026 | Angus Taylor’s One Nationfication of the Liberal Party is Australia’s MAGA moment
• 3 February 2026 | Australia’s growing tolerance for racism a threat to democracy
• 21 January 2026 | Journalists need to resist adopting News Corp’s agenda
• 2 December 2025 | Trump’s America being destroyed by its own racism
• 18 November 2025 | Liberals and News Corp in lock-step with interests of climate denying billionaires
• 4 November 2025 | New York Times shows how media have failed American democracy
• 21 October 2025 | Republican White supremacy exposed through Trump’s agenda
• 7 October 2025 | Journalists taking Trump at face value are too gullible for words
• 23 September 2025 | Trump’s MAGA is not engaging in democracy, they are destroying it
• 16 September 2025 | From Kirk to Hortman: The media’s double standard on political violence
• 9 September 2025 | Long may Liberal Jacinta Nampijinpa Price say the quiet bits out loud
• 26 August 2025 | Democrats fight Trump's fire with fire with no end in sight
• 12 August 2025 | No matter the spots, the Liberal leopard remains the same
• 29 July 2025 | The emperor is naked: Trump’s reckoning over the Epstein scandal
• 15 July 2025 | America needs a big healthy dose of cynicism to get over Trump
• 1 July 2025 | Normalising Trump is killing the media's credibility
• 17 June 2025 | Journalists normalising Trump's racism are failing democracy
• 3 June 2025 | News Corp influenced the Election, just not the way it wanted
• 20 May 2025 | Liberal Party can't save itself from foundational flaws
• 5 May 2025 | Coalition's problems far greater than a terrible campaign
• 22 April 2025 | Peter Dutton's Trumpist playbook proves he is all talk
• 8 April 2025 | Donald Trump is the world’s most audacious liar
• 24 March 2025 | Dutton’s Trump-mania is a dumb political move
• 8 March 2025 | Trump’s overreach making the world finally see the Right
• 25 February 2025 | Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right
• 11 February 2025 | News media compliance making Trump more dangerous
• 28 January 2025 | Media coverage of Dutton’s nuclear 'plan': Scrutiny, stenography or propaganda
• 14 January 2025 | News Corp using content for conservative political advocacy
• 9 December 2024 | News Corp’s fossil fuel advertising dressed as news should be illegal
• 18 November 2024 | U.S. Election not about economic anxiety, it’s about religious identity anxiety
• 11 November 2024 | Donald Trump wins presidency thanks to lack of media scrutiny
• 29 October 2024 | Trump can be lawless — Kamala must be flawless
• 15 October 2024 | Coverage of Trump voters shows who media thinks “matters”
• 1 October 2024 | Media inflating false equivalency between Left and Right
• 17 September 2024 | Telling the truth about Trump has never been more important
• 3 September 2024 | Content creators give mainstream journalists valid competition
• 20 August 2024 | News media's lack of accountability destroying democracy
• 5 August 2024 | Blaming the Left for Trump is victim blaming
• 22 July 2024 | Media enabling Trump's mission to destroy democracy
• 9 July 2024 | ABC failing to fact-check the powerful
• 24 June 2024 | ABC gutless for not backing Laura Tingle over 'racist country' remarks
• 10 June 2024 | News Corp calls for tech giants to adhere by 'social licence' utterly hypocritical
• 28 May 2024 | How meaningful reform by Labor is killed by the mainstream media
• 13 May 2024 | Violence against women: The toxic culture of weaponised victimhood
• 29 April 2024 | Mainstream media shows social media is not alone in its problem of indecency
• 15 April 2024 | Seven's disgraceful Lehrmann interview a lowpoint for mainstream media
• 2 April 2024 | Australian journalists need to stop legitimising Murdoch and Trump
• 18 March 2024 | Murdoch media weaponises victimhood — except when convenient
• 4 March 2024 | News Corp's sinister 'leftist' label strategy
• 19 February 2024 | Murdoch media in overdrive creating cost-of-living problem for Albanese
• 5 February 2024 | News Corp’s Stage 3 tax cut coverage a deceitful political campaign
• 22 January 2024 | It's time the ABC resisted external threats and attacks
• 8 January 2024 | 'False balance': Media has a responsibility to call out lies in U.S. and UK elections
• 16 December 2023 | News Corp reaps financial rewards from Andrew Bolt’s racism
• 12 December 2023 | Media hypocrisy protecting Right-wing position takers
• 27 November 2023 | Murdoch propaganda machine catastrophic for democracy
• 14 November 2023 | Goodbye Twitter, goodbye civil discourse
• 31 October 2023 | News Corp's war on 'Albo's Voice'
• 16 October 2023 | 'Voice' lies and mistruths bolster calls for media royal commission
• 2 October 2023 | Liberal Party and News Corp Voice coverage right on script
• 19 September 2023 | Scare campaigns built on lies not policed by the media
• 4 September 2023 | 'No' campaign built on lies and misinformation
• 14 August 2023 | Murdoch's commentators poisoning Voice debate
• 5 August 2023 | News Corp bullies to be held accountable over one-sided Voice coverage
• 17 July 2023 | News Corp’s blurring of news and views damaging society
• 3 July 2023 | Media Watch faces backlash for supporting transphobia
• 19 June 2023 | Media’s weaponisation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations
• 5 June 2023 | Stan Grant spoke the truth, but the media didn't listen
• 22 May 2023 | Debate over trans people's right to exist fuelling hatred
• 8 May 2023 | Voice debate exposes a broken Australian media
• 24 April 2023 | Murdoch media manipulated by misinformation monster
• 11 April 2023 | Lack of media scrutiny helped the Liberals lose their way
• 27 March 2023 | Hate should never be given a powerful platform
• 13 March 2023 | Mainstream media fails to address the Robodebt elephant in the room
• 28 February 2023 | Liberal scare campaigns: Super lies promoted by media
• 14 February 2023 | 'Friendly' media and Coalition colluded to silence Robodebt victims
• 28 January 2023 | Politicised attacks are damaging the ABC’s editorial independence
• 17 January 2023 | The Liberal Party seems to be a bit racist
• 1 January 2023 | #2 TOP IA STORY OF 2022: Friendlyjordies allegations against Dutton met with silence
• 20 December 2022 | Morrison’s Robodebt RC grilling: Nothing to see here at 'The Australian'
• 5 December 2022 | Murdoch’s power eroded by Victorian Election cooker conspiracies
• 22 November 2022 | The rise of Trumpist Australia: a threat to democracy
• 14 November 2022 | So-called 'progressive' media show true colours over Industrial Relations Bill
• 31 October 2022 | Press punishes PM after Dutton's delusional dig
• 17 October 2022 | Mass media fails to recognise the power of Gillard’s Misogyny Speech
• 3 October 2022 | Ten years on from the Misogyny Speech, not much has changed
• 19 September 2022 | Why I am taking a break from Twitter
• 22 August 2022 | Lack of scrutiny helped Morrison scandal go unnoticed
• 8 August 2022 | Alex Jones verdict is a small victory in the war against misinformation
• 25 July 2022 | Biased reporters should lose status as 'journalists'
• 11 July 2022 | 'Just asking questions’ mantra — a poor excuse for media bias
• 27 June 2022 | Journalists need to listen to media critique before it’s too late
• 13 June 2022 | Who is PRGuy? PRGuy is all of us
• 30 May 2022 | How Morrison and the media lost Australia
• 27 May 2022 | FLASHBACK 2022: Friendlyjordies allegations against Dutton met with silence
• 16 May 2022 | Media framing of wage rises shows deep ideological bias
• 2 May 2022 | Murdoch bias is boiling Australian democracy
• 19 April 2022 | Mainstream media fails democracy in Election coverage
• 5 April 2022 | Comparing the budgets — Labor cares and Liberals spend
• 23 March 2022 | There's more to the SA Labor Election victory than you think
• 7 March 2022 | Friendlyjordies allegations against Dutton met with silence
• 21 February 2022 | Media propaganda a scourge on democracy
• 7 February 2022 | Morrison's border backflip: PM's 'Teflon miracle' appears over
• 24 January 2022 | Border controls demonised as WA effectively shuts out COVID
• 11 January 2022 | Mainstream media applauds Morrison's 'let it rip' strategy
• 13 December 2021 | Neoliberal principles guide journalism in Australia
• 29 November 2021 | Coalition Government should've already closed our borders to Omicron
• 16 November 2021 | Right-wing commentators turning journalism into public relations
• 1 November 2021 | It's not 'cancel culture', it's audience feedback
• 18 October 2021 | Media inequality shows Labor scandals covered more than Liberal
• 4 October 2021 | It's a pandemic, not Braveheart: 'Freedom day' complicates COVID fight
• 20 September 2021 | Leigh Sales, Twitter and the power of the mainstream media
• 6 September 2021 | Media bias for Berejiklian and against Andrews is clear
• 23 August 2021 | Scott Morrison shielded by Murdoch protection racket
• 10 August 2021 | Media inequality: Labor is on an uneven playing field
• 26 July 2021 | Politicised coverage: Media favours Liberal COVID response over Labor's
• 16 July 2021 | Murdoch press shows media bias towards Liberal COVID-19 strategy
• 10 June 2021 | Journalists responsible for Scott Morrison's lack of accountability
• 1 November 2017 | AFP raids and journalists speaking truth to power
• 15 December 2012 | Overlooking Australia's Watergate
• 12 November 2012 | Why the mainstream media are losing it