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From hack to Hell and back again1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 10 months ago: Graham Johnson. (2012). Hack: Sex, drugs and scandal from inside the tabloid jungle. London: Simon … more →

Tags: Journalism ethics, Tabloid Journalism, News of the World, Graham Johnson, Hack, Book Review

Online debate - "free speech" trollworld style

ethicalmartini wrote 11 months ago: This is a classic comment, it speaks volumes about the type of free speech that’s acceptable t … more →

Tags: Tim Blair, News limited, Trolls, The Cosy Club

Talking Points: The Australian's cosy little club of groupthinkers2 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 12 months ago: If you get to the bottom there is a topical easter egg surprise for loyal readers. Over recent month … more →

Tags: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Media, Balance, Bias, conflict of interest, Conservatives, liberal bias, libertriansim, lunar right

Sleazy, nasty, dirty and wrong: Just another day at The Australian11 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: In recent days The Australian has launched a vitriolic and highly personal campaign against Margaret … more →

Tags: censorship, Australian Media, rupert murdoch, journalism education, The Australian, Margaret Simons, Conspiracy Theories

A changing of the guard: Gina Rinehart mogul-in-the-making or corporate raider?1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: James Packer, Lachlan Murdoch, Kerry Stokes, John Singleton and Gina Rinehart. While Stokes and Sing … more →

Tags: Australian Media, Future of newspapers, Fairfax Media, climate change, Gina Rinehart, Lord Monkton, "get-up"

Up in smokes: Free speech fundamentalist shows true colours and logical confusion2 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: Ah, the logic of fundamentalism. Whatever form it takes it can brook no subtlety, no fine distinctio … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, Commodity Fetishism, Civil Liberties, free speech, big tobacco, Smoking kills!, Brendan O'Neill

The good doctor needs a 'well-earned break'1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: Sorry to say this, but there’s an elephant in the room. Actually, the elephant is sitting squa … more →

Tags: Gerard Henderson

Twitterville - as the name suggests

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: There’s something very cool and satisfying about Twitter. I actually think that as a tool for … more →

Tags: Social Media, Twitter, free speech, twitter, Twitter ethics, Twiterville

This is my city - get off the streets!

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: Melbourne was recently voted the world’s most livable city. Mayor Robert Doyle wants to keep i … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, capitalism sucks, Protest, Boycott, occupy melbourne, institute of public affairs, Divestment, sanctions, Right to Resist

Thank you for your comment...now piss off back to Where-everstan!6 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: After my appearance at the government-sponsored media inquiry in Melbourne last week I was suddenly … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, Citizen Journalism, censorship, media and democracy, communism, Academic Freedom, grey collar journalism, Marxism and journalism, A job well done

'Free speech' ...the last defence of cowards and scoundrels

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: Freedom of speech is not freedom to say whatever you like, whenever you want about anything you plea … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, censorship, Australian Media, Andrew Bolt, Racial Discrimination, Aboriginal Australia

The rhetoric of chattering classes disguises anti-worker bias in limited news

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: When the ruling class feels strong and the political leadership of the labour movement is corrupt to … more →

Tags: Conservatives, commodity journalism, capitalism sucks, lunar right, liberal bias, The Australian, Michael Thompson, grey collar intellectuals, right-wing gumph

So fuckin' angry..She really should have gone to rehab

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: Amy, Amy, Amy. Addiction, talent, sex, drugs, rock-n-jazz. Fuck it. You’re dead. “You kn … more →

Tags: Martini music, Alcohol, Frank Moorhouse, Amy Winehouse, Gin Wigmore, amy winehouse dead, so sorry, dying day

Doing my bit for the Libyan revolution1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 1 year ago: 2011, August 30 update: Now that Ssafia al Gaddafi is in Algeria, do you think I’ll get my mon … more →

Tags: Gaddafi, Libya, Nigerian Scam

All a twitter over #superinjunction tweets. Advice to celebs "STFU"1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 2 years ago: So, the gloss is wearing off social media; the excitement is waning and the holy-roller experts are … more →

Tags: ethico-legal paradox, Backlash, Social Networks, Social Media, Bare Naked Ladies, celerity gossip, confidentiality agreements, Paparazzi, sex in the headlines

Saurons of cinema: Gobbits and Quislings in a tale of 'yore

ethicalmartini wrote 2 years ago: The drafty Stalinesque lecture hall underneath Auckland’s trade union headquarters in Grey Lyn … more →

Tags: Media ethics, Bias, shock jocks, New Zealand Media, Satire, A job well done, Paul Holmes, The Hobbit, Peter Jackson

April Fools continue to poison the web: Baby Herbal Soup [redux]1 comment

ethicalmartini wrote 2 years ago: I continue to be amazed and disgusted that the baby herbal soup hoax continues to circulate on the i … more →

Tags: China, folk devils, baby herbal soup, Internet Hoax, blood libel, April Fool

News 2.0 : journalism, wikileaks and beyond the fourth estate

ethicalmartini wrote 2 years ago: It’s not every day that you attend a book launch. It’s a once-or-twice moment to launch … more →

Tags: New Zealand, Freedom of Speech, Blogging, Journalism ethics, Social Networks, journalism education, journalism in the digital age, the future of journalism, News 2.0; News 2.0 can journalism survive the internet;

Of pineapple lumps, Gobbits and market economics3 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 2 years ago: Every man woman and child in New Zealand has just paid about $22.20 towards the production costs of … more →

Tags: New Zealand, media employment, media entertainment and arts alliance, The Hobbit, lord of the rings


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