Tag: News Limited

• The Potential Radicalisation of News Limited?

  In truth, I take little interest in the activities of Islamic State. They simply are another group that uses any religion to justify any violence. And yet another group who commit violence in the main against their fellow believers. So I find myself agape and aghast at News Limited’s unmitigated obsession with them. Every single […]

  Andrew Whalan

  June 24, 2015

  Humour, Politics

  abc, australian broadcasting commission, Islamic State, News Limited, Q and A, radicalisation

• Journalism After Murdoch : What Now?

  Amazing! My inbox changed again! That hadn’t happened for at least 45 seconds. But this time the email was actually interesting. In the first place, it wasn’t spam and secondly, it concerned a subject of interest to me: journalism. While not a journalist, I’m a writer, and my keen interest came from a close observation […]

  Andrew Whalan

  May 13, 2015

  Personal, Politics, Social Media

  eliot higgins, fairfax, fleet street, hack attack, journalism, Julia Gillard, kevin mitnick, Kevin Rudd, Kevin Whalan, milly dowler, News Limited, nick davies, phone hacking scandal, rupert murdoch, sienna miller, the sun, wheeler centre, william randolph hearst

• Why the MainStream Media is Dying…

  Imagine you are a journalist in a small country town. You know everyone and they know you. Any unethical behaviour will in time be found out. Then you lose your contacts, advertisers, circulation and your newspaper’s reputation. Imagine you are a journalist in a city. You know no-one and no-one knows you. Any unethical behaviour […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 17, 2013

  Politics, Social Media

  Advertising, Australia, Ethics, Facebook, Journalist, Mainstream Media, Media, Murdoch, News Limited, Newspaper, Social media