The Media's Treatment of Flotilla Detainees is Shocking and Unprecedented
Australians are returning home with stories of abuse and mistreatment while the media is deferring to Israel by interrogating them as if they aren't reliable.
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Australian Media Boosts Israeli Propaganda After Flotilla Abuse, and Who’s Behind Anti-Budget Memes?
The media is taking it at Israel's word that Ben-Gvir is an outlier, not the norm. Lamestream can reveal that on at least one occasion, points to the contrary were edited out of reports.
How the government misread the politics of the budget (and how to fix it)
On the surface, reforming tax breaks for landlord investors should seem like a simple political win. So why is Labor's budget going down poorly?
Why is Australian Media Celebrating an Artist Being Banned From the US? Plus, the Housing Tax Explainers That Got it Wrong
An Australian musician being booted from the US allegedly because of a joke his girlfriend posted should be a major diplomatic incident, no?
Why is Australian media celebrating an artist being banned from the US? Plus, the housing tax explainers that got it wrong
An Australian musician being booted from the US allegedly because of a joke his girlfriend posted should be a major diplomatic incident, no?
Unmasking the Lobby That Fought to Block Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis
How the media ran property industry lines, a "chief economist", and blunted a once-in-a-generation chance to fix the housing crisis.
Casual racism in The Age, We Tested The Daily Aus' PR claims, and the ABC Might Re-Write a Headline After we Publish This.
In this week's column, the ABC report 8 million Australians are reliant on income support but the report's author isn't so sure, one newspaper reports that Chinese Australians live along the 'Yum Cha line' and The Daily Aus claim to advise public broadcasters.
The Bondi Royal Commission isn’t even pretending to be about Bondi anymore
Concerns that the Royal Commission will be used to marginalise the pro-Palestine movement have been validated this week, following confirmation criticism of Israel will be conflated with anti-Semitism.
More Nine cuts, the Royal Commission backfires, duelling Syria repatriation stories, and a once great TV network becomes pro-Trump propaganda
Nine handed out public money it received to shareholders and is cutting jobs again, right-wing media go after Albanese's anti-Semitism review, and duelling 'ISIS brides' stories demonstrate government secrecy.
What's Really Behind the Walkley's Shake-Up, The Daily Aus Goes Wild for Albo, and One Nation vs. The Media
In this week's Friday column: Pauline Hanson loves the media spotlight, but bans journalists who ask her tough questions. Should journalists be taking selfies with the PM? And why this week marked a rout for some doyens of journalism
Read Randa Abdel-Fattah's Resignation Letter Slamming UQP for Caving to 'Smear Campaigns'
The author's award-winning novel Discipline was published by UQP. Now, Abdel-Fattah has quit the publisher in response to its cancellation of an Indigenous children's book.
Read Evelyn Araluen’s Blistering Resignation Letter to University of Queensland Press
After Lamestream broke the news that the University of Queensland Press had cancelled the publication of a children’s book, award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen has terminated her relationship with UQP.
Exclusive: University of Queensland scraps Indigenous children’s book, citing controversial anti-Semitism policy
The book's author has described the decision to pulp all 5,000 copies of the book as reckless and disrespectful, and says it "sets a chilling standard".
The Latest ABC Pay Drama, Jackson Warne's Dance with the Far-Right and F-35 Lies
In this week's column, Os and Scott dive into how the mainstream media gave a massive plug to a far-right podcast and break down the dramatic twist in ABC pay negotiations.
Usher, Radio Free Alice, and A Tale of Two Deleted Like A Versions
This week, Triple J deleted a controversial interview with Melbourne band Radio Free Alice discussing their cover of Usher's 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love'. It told us a lot about the lessons Australia's music industry refuse to learn.