Media


Why should we care about Boston?

Michael Cook | 24 April 2013 |
tags: Boston Marathon bombings, Christianity, media, solidarity
Some Australian journalists have asked why so much coverage was given to American deaths and so little to deaths in Iraq. Are they right?


“Privacy is for paedos”

Michael Cook | 04 December 2012 |
tags: journalism, Leveson Inquiry, media, privacy
At the heart of this gigantic report are unanswered questions about the nature of privacy.


Why we should be sceptical of media “fact checkers”

Robert Hutchinson | 03 September 2012 |
tags: election 2012, media
"Lies", "brazen lies", "factually challenged", "misleading", dishonest"... says who?


Free speech no fait accompli

Alex Perrottet | 03 May 2012 |
tags: freedom of speech, media
On World Press Freedom Day, it’s not just Fiji that needs to pull up its socks.


Heroes and hackers

David Alton | 28 September 2011 |
tags: heroes, media, truth
The phone-hacking scandal obscures the heroism journalists can display in pursuit of the truth.


Paper outrage

Michael Cook | 19 July 2011 |
tags: media, News of the World
Will anything better come after Rupert Murdoch?


I can’t hack any more of this

Michael Cook | 12 July 2011 |
tags: media, News of the World, UK
The public is being manipulated in the outrage over skulduggery at Britain's most notorious tabloid, the News of the World.


Boredom busters and brain boosters

Mary Cooney | 28 June 2011 |
tags: holiday, media, parenting, play
Ten tips on how to keep your kids happily busy during the summer holiday.


Crazy for Osama

Zac Alstin | 03 May 2011 |
tags: media, Osama bin Laden, war on terror
Take 1: You've got to have rocks in your head not to rejoice in the death of an unrepentant mass murderer.


Gender games

Stephen J. Heaney | 30 December 2010 |
tags: gender, media, philosophy
When a woman claims to be a man, should the university and the press play along?


The Teflon Pontiff

Alessandra Nucci | 15 October 2010 |
tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, media
Papa Ratzinger has consistently turned troubles into triumphs.


A man of endless controversy

Jack Valero | 10 September 2010 |
tags: Catholic Church, John Henry Newman, media
As ever, the philosopher, theologian, poet, priest, and saint is a towering figure who is both loved and despised.


Appearance and reality: what Plato can teach journalists and the media

David S. Oderberg | 13 May 2010 |
tags: media, philosophy
Did the Greek philosopher foresee the demise of the mainstream media?


Message to the lynch mob: the Pope is innocent

Jack Valero | 16 April 2010 |
tags: Benedict XVI, media, sex abuse
Cardinal Ratzinger was the Vatican official who acted most energetically to rid the Catholic Church of sex abuse.


Wisdom from your local zoo

Denyse O'Leary | 01 March 2010 |
tags: evolution, media, relationships
Updating Dear Abby and Ann Landers, a British newspaper has engaged an evolutionary agony aunt. 


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