Gerard Henderson

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Gerard Henderson

CAN YOU BEAR IT? GUARDIAN READER A.C. GRAYLING TELLS SATURDAY EXTRA THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A BIT LIKE VLADIMIR PUTINIt started off badly. And then it got worse – or “better” –  in the saying attributed to Josef Stalin that “worse is better”. In any event, it has taken Media Watch Dog a week to recover from the occasion. Now Ellie’s (male) co-owner regards the British philosopher A.C. (Anthony Clifford) Grayling as a septuagenarian in search of a (Marxist) hairdresser.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Gerard Henderson

THE ABC LEADERS DEBATE – ANTHONY ALBANESE AND PETER DUTTON DID OKAY – BUT IT WAS A SOMEWHAT BORING AFFAIR WITH NO LIVE AUDIENCE AND NO JOURNALISTIC VIEWPOINT DIVERSITYThe ABC TV News Leaders Debate on Wednesday 16 April was a somewhat boring affair. It lacked the sparkle of the Sky News People’s Forum of Tuesday 8 April. Three blokes were on the stage – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition leader Peter Dutton and ABC presenter David Speers. Speers is a competent but somewhat dour presenter.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Gerard Henderson

STOP PRESSGUCCI TEAL, ZOE DANIEL (EX-ABC) GETS MORE FREE PUBLICITY ON THE ABCJust when avid Media Watch Dog readers thought it was safe to assume that ABC journalists might scale back their favouritism of the Teals in the lead up to the election – Gucci Teal and former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel got another run on ABC on the morning of Friday 11 April.

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Gerard Henderson

STOP PRESSKIM WILLIAMS’ BUCKETS OF DENIALQuelle Surprise. ABC chair Kim Williams AM [doesn’t he have an AB as well? – as in Always Begging? – MWD Editor] addressed the Melbourne Press Club on Thursday April 3. The occasion was held to mark the conclusion of your man Williams’ first year as ABC chair. Once again, Mr Williams called for more taxpayer funds to be given to the taxpayer funded broadcaster, which is a Conservative Free Zone (despite the fact that conservatives pay lotsa taxes).

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Gerard Henderson

STOP PRESSTHE CONTEMPORARY ABC – MORE “WHAT ABOUT THE EVs?” THAN “WHAT ABOUT THE WORKERS?”There was a time when the cry “What about the Workers?” could be heard across the Australian land. And also in Britain – and more besides. Indeed it was a send-up by actor Peter Sellers in his 1958 Party Political Speech. So, it came as some surprise that, at Hangover Time on Thursday 27 March, Ellie’s (male) co-owner heard RN Breakfast presenter Sally Sara cry “What about the EVs?”.