by Jim Ball | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog, Media, Media Bias
An illuminating read and a case study of selective bias that works on the principle that although all the facts are presented, they are not presented together in an “on the one hand but on the other hand” fair and balancedkind of way. Crucial facts that...
by Jim Ball | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog, Media, Media Bias, The Left |
Seriously worth a watch. Bill O’Reilly back on Fox for a one off interview with Sean Hannity.Together they traverse much the same ground and range of issues that are going on here in Australia, particularly identity politics along with the grievance mongering and...
by Jim Ball | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog, Media Bias, The ABC |
Do you ever get the impression that you’ve dropped down an Alice in Wonderland, rabbit hole? That you’re somehow caught up in one of those whacky sideshow alley hall of mirrors? The world of the concave and the convex where nothing is as it should be and...
by Jim Ball | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Media, Media Bias |
This is a great interview about a new book on what’s going on in the media and why. “Smear — How shady political operatives and fake news control what you see, what you think and how you vote” Although it’s about the media in America we...
by Jim Ball | May 18, 2017 | Blog, Media, Media Bias, Random Notes |
Talk about suck the oxygen out of the room. Scenario 1…The media says that Trump may have leaked sensitive stuff to the Russian ambassador. Putin says from their notes and recordings that he didn’t. The media becomes totally unhinged, outraged and...
by Jim Ball | Apr 21, 2017 | Blog, Fairfax, Media, Media Bias |
Interesting developments at Fauxfacts and not before time “…Newly-appointed national editor James Chessell, who is still the Australian Financial Review’s Europe editor based in London (and expounded on the snap UK election this week), contacted the chief...
