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Aug 15, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alexander Cothren |Robert Phiddian
In late April, comedian Jerry Seinfeld went on the New Yorker Radio Hour and re-opened the debate that refuses to die.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Robert Phiddian
There has been much discussion in recent years about satire’s role in the online world – and the risks we face from it being misunderstood. In a recent article, NewsGuard editorial director Eric Effron bemoaned the fact that satire mistaken for news is stoking disinformation and political division. He even suggests satire should be explicitly labelled. Here’s why that’s not really a fair proposal.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Robert Phiddian
There has been much discussion in recent years about satire’s role in the online world – and the risks we face from it being misunderstood. In a recent article, NewsGuard editorial director Eric Effron[1] bemoaned the fact that satire mistaken for news is stoking disinformation and political division. He even suggests satire should be explicitly labelled. Here’s why that’s not really a fair proposal.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Robert Phiddian
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May 22, 2024 | 
insidestory.org.au | Robert Phiddian
Gentle reader of Inside Story, Scott Morrison’s Plans for Your Good is not addressed to you. Its spelling is American, Anzac Day is glossed as “like Memorial Day in the United States,” and many of the significant events an Australian follower of politics might expect to read about do not appear.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
insidestory.org.au | David Stubbs |Robert Phiddian
It was hard not to be charmed by the race between a lettuce and Liz Truss’s prime ministership. It was gallows humour sharply poised between self-deprecation and outright deprecation, somehow typical of British humour. The whimsy worked as a coping measure, but was it also an agent of change? On balance, British journalist David Stubbs thinks not.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
rb.gy | Robert Phiddian
Tolstoy was wrong, it appears; a happy family can be utterly distinctive, and Lorin Clarke (hereafter Lorin) writes superbly about hers. People will search out her new book Would That Be Funny? for the light it shines on the comic genius of her father, the guarded, generous, reticent, surgical John Clarke (hereafter John) of happy memory. Many of us still carry grief from John’s sudden death, seven years ago now, chasing birds in the Grampians.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
tolerance.ca | Robert Phiddian
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Robert Phiddian
After seven decades as a visual satirist provoking Australia as it is and might be, Bruce Petty passed away at 93 on April 6 this year. His career as a political cartoonist started with a trip to London in the late 1950s, then a stint at young Rupert Murdoch’s afternoon paper in Sydney, the Mirror.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
insidestory.org.au | Robert Phiddian
The greatest and most influential Australian cartoonist of the post-war era, Bruce Petty, died just before Easter this year. Just before Easter fifty-six years ago, he was working on an incendiary image:In the cross made of newsprint the words of the upright are Ho Chi Minh’s and those of the crosspiece are Lyndon Johnson’s.
