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Truth, Lies and MediaEp 22 - Israel and the G WordA photo of a skeletal child cradled in its mothers arms finally brings home the horror of mass starvation in Gaza and the tide of media opinion turns against Israel.Denis Muller says journalists are discarding an old taboo and using the word "genocide" to describe the mass starvation Israel denies is happening.Plus the big global news organisations sign a joint statement warning the journalists and photographers telling this story of man made famine and brutality will themselves soon die from starvation if aid doesn't come quickly. And first th...2025-07-2931 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 22 - Israel and the G WordA photo of a skeletal child cradled in its mothers arms finally brings home the horror of mass starvation in Gaza and the tide of media opinion turns against Israel.Denis Muller says journalists are discarding an old taboo and using the word "genocide" to describe the mass starvation Israel denies is happening.Plus the big global news organisations sign a joint statement warning the journalists and photographers telling this story of man made famine and brutality will themselves soon die from starvation if aid doesn't come quickly. And first th...2025-07-2931 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 21 - Inconvenient TruthsReporting on a massacre - Israel mows down dozens of starving Palestinians trying to get food at aid hubs. Dr. Denis Muller says only running IDF talking points while covering these atrocities is not journalism, and sets out the principles reporters should be keeping in mind. Plus the growing calls for anti semitism envoy Jillian Segal to be sacked after it was revealed her husband donated $50,000 to a hate group called Advance which runs anti Palestinian narratives ..And two tribes go to war .. An enraged Donald Trump sues the media mogul who helped get h...2025-07-2236 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 21 - Inconvenient TruthsReporting on a massacre - Israel mows down dozens of starving Palestinians trying to get food at aid hubs. Dr. Denis Muller says only running IDF talking points while covering these atrocities is not journalism, and sets out the principles reporters should be keeping in mind. Plus the growing calls for anti semitism envoy Jillian Segal to be sacked after it was revealed her husband donated $50,000 to a hate group called Advance which runs anti Palestinian narratives ..And two tribes go to war .. An enraged Donald Trump sues the media mogul who helped get h...2025-07-2236 minTruth, Lies and MediaTrauma and Journalism with Cait McMahonTrauma and journalism live side-by-side.Journalists often find themselves having to interview people who have been through a traumatic experience because traumatizing events are often matters of serious public interest.That’s because they raise questions of public safety and, sometimes, questions about causation and about the adequacy of the official response.The people who lived through these experiences are important witnesses because they can give first-hand accounts of what happened.How media crews treat these people can affect the traumatized person’s psychological welfare.Bu...2025-07-1839 minTruth, Lies and MediaTrauma and Journalism with Cait McMahonTrauma and journalism live side-by-side.Journalists often find themselves having to interview people who have been through a traumatic experience because traumatizing events are often matters of serious public interest.That’s because they raise questions of public safety and, sometimes, questions about causation and about the adequacy of the official response.The people who lived through these experiences are important witnesses because they can give first-hand accounts of what happened.How media crews treat these people can affect the traumatized person’s psychological welfare.Bu...2025-07-1839 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 20 - Authoritarian OverreachAnti-semitism envoy or propagandist?Jillian Segal puts those favourite whipping boys the ABC, SBS, universities and the arts straight into the firing line by suggesting they be stripped of funding if they fail to address anti semitism - but cannot identify any smoking gun failings to would justify such draconian action.Denis Muller has condemned the sweeping review as an authoritarian overreach which should be pulped immediately.Plus .. the Image Consultants go to town in the remaking of Sussan Ley. Are this weeks media characterisations of her as a plu...2025-07-1537 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 20 - Authoritarian OverreachAnti-semitism envoy or propagandist?Jillian Segal puts those favourite whipping boys the ABC, SBS, universities and the arts straight into the firing line by suggesting they be stripped of funding if they fail to address anti semitism - but cannot identify any smoking gun failings to would justify such draconian action.Denis Muller has condemned the sweeping review as an authoritarian overreach which should be pulped immediately.Plus .. the Image Consultants go to town in the remaking of Sussan Ley. Are this weeks media characterisations of her as a plu...2025-07-1537 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 19 - The Feeding FrenzyA Leongatha mother of two Erin Patterson is declared a triple murderer who killed her in laws with a lunch of beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms, and newsrooms in Australia and around the world go into overdrive.It's the biggest international story to come out of Australia since Cardinal George Pell was convicted according to Denis Muller, and it's not over yet.Plus ex ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf tells why she fought on through the courts after being illegally sacked, despite anonymous death threats and potential financial ruin. T...2025-07-0831 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 19 - The Feeding FrenzyA Leongatha mother of two Erin Patterson is declared a triple murderer who killed her in laws with a lunch of beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms, and newsrooms in Australia and around the world go into overdrive.It's the biggest international story to come out of Australia since Cardinal George Pell was convicted according to Denis Muller, and it's not over yet.Plus ex ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf tells why she fought on through the courts after being illegally sacked, despite anonymous death threats and potential financial ruin. T...2025-07-0831 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 18 - From Consternation to PanicThe Federal Court has found that the ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it sacked casual broadcaster Antoinette Latouf, ordering it to pay her $70,000.Senior ABC managers fell into “a state of panic” after an orchestrated campaign by pro Israel lobbyists to have Latouf taken off air, and pressure form The Australian newspaper. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-07-0125 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 18 - From Consternation to PanicThe Federal Court has found that the ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it sacked casual broadcaster Antoinette Latouf, ordering it to pay her $70,000.Senior ABC managers fell into “a state of panic” after an orchestrated campaign by pro Israel lobbyists to have Latouf taken off air, and pressure form The Australian newspaper. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-07-0125 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 17 - The First CasualtyAncient enemies Iran and the United States lock horns as Donald Trump unleashes his GBU57 bunker buster bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iranian nuclear sites which he claims were "obliterated", and then paints himself as a great world peacemaker.If truth is the first casualty of war how can consumers of media drill down into what is true amid blizzards of disinformation?And, he was a respected foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, a political reporter and an ABC star. But after a storied 40 year career in the media Stan Grant tells "Compass" wh...2025-06-2439 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 17 - The First CasualtyAncient enemies Iran and the United States lock horns as Donald Trump unleashes his GBU57 bunker buster bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iranian nuclear sites which he claims were "obliterated", and then paints himself as a great world peacemaker.If truth is the first casualty of war how can consumers of media drill down into what is true amid blizzards of disinformation?And, he was a respected foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, a political reporter and an ABC star. But after a storied 40 year career in the media Stan Grant tells "Compass" wh...2025-06-2439 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 16 - In the Firing LineIsrael hits an Iranian television station - the missile attack is broadcast live to air as the presenter runs for cover and the studio fills with choking smoke and debris.Denis Muller unpacks why the media are regarded as high value targets in war zones.Plus a US Sheriff brazenly tells reporters his police will execute protesters and contact family to find out where the remains should be sent, if those protesters throw a brick or brandish a weapon. How does hold-the-powerful-to-account journalism function under this emerging fascist regime?And in...2025-06-1736 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 16 - In the Firing LineIsrael hits an Iranian television station - the missile attack is broadcast live to air as the presenter runs for cover and the studio fills with choking smoke and debris.Denis Muller unpacks why the media are regarded as high value targets in war zones.Plus a US Sheriff brazenly tells reporters his police will execute protesters and contact family to find out where the remains should be sent, if those protesters throw a brick or brandish a weapon. How does hold-the-powerful-to-account journalism function under this emerging fascist regime?And in...2025-06-1736 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 15 - Don't Shoot the MessengerUpdated audio - National Guard soldiers have been ordered into LA to quell violent riots with a Channel 9 journalist hit by a rubber bullet fired by a police officer while she was reporting live to air. Footage appears to show one police officer deliberately moving his aim in her direction.When billionaire gorillas - one in the White House - start hurling excrement at each other it's a train wreck the global media can't look away from. We'll take a look at the unfolding coverage of the Trump-Musk feud that's breaking the internet. And...2025-06-1135 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 15 - Don't Shoot the MessengerUpdated audio - National Guard soldiers have been ordered into LA to quell violent riots with a Channel 9 journalist hit by a rubber bullet fired by a police officer while she was reporting live to air. Footage appears to show one police officer deliberately moving his aim in her direction.When billionaire gorillas - one in the White House - start hurling excrement at each other it's a train wreck the global media can't look away from. We'll take a look at the unfolding coverage of the Trump-Musk feud that's breaking the internet. And...2025-06-1135 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 14 - The Whistle BlowbackAustralia is sending a whistleblower to jail after documents he leaked to the ABC revealed war crimes in Afghanistan, making the whistleblower the only person to be imprisoned after the shocking revelations.Why do Australians have to risk everything to reveal military and government injustice?Plus we look at Karoline Leavitt, the 2019 college grad and MAGA zealot hurling insults at everyone from journalists to world leaders and U.S. judges as Donald Trumps press secretary and shouty mouthpiece.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://b...2025-06-0340 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 14 - The Whistle BlowbackAustralia is sending a whistleblower to jail after documents he leaked to the ABC revealed war crimes in Afghanistan, making the whistleblower the only person to be imprisoned after the shocking revelations.Why do Australians have to risk everything to reveal military and government injustice?Plus we look at Karoline Leavitt, the 2019 college grad and MAGA zealot hurling insults at everyone from journalists to world leaders and U.S. judges as Donald Trumps press secretary and shouty mouthpiece.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://b...2025-06-0340 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 13 - Danse MacabreJournalists aren't supposed to be the propaganda department of political parties... now The Saturday Paper has lifted the lid on the Abbott-Credlin-News Corp alliance that controls the Liberal Party.Their expose reveals the wrecking ball of a bizarre shadow government-in-exile that, with its media mates, still shapes messaging and wages war on dissenters.Plus a top CBS News boss quits as Donald Trump ratchets up his legal war on journalists who hold him accountable. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia2025-05-2732 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 13 - Danse MacabreJournalists aren't supposed to be the propaganda department of political parties... now The Saturday Paper has lifted the lid on the Abbott-Credlin-News Corp alliance that controls the Liberal Party.Their expose reveals the wrecking ball of a bizarre shadow government-in-exile that, with its media mates, still shapes messaging and wages war on dissenters.Plus a top CBS News boss quits as Donald Trump ratchets up his legal war on journalists who hold him accountable. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia2025-05-2732 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 12 - Picking SidesThe Liberals and the Nationals split in an election aftershock .. But who will the media cast as the villain?The journalist versus the disgraced war hero - Ben Roberts Smith is vowing to take his fight to the High Court in a proceeding Denis Muller says is the most significant defamation case in Australian legal history.And .. Why would Donald Trump fan boy over the Saudi Crown Prince who ordered the brutal killing of a journalist? Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buy...2025-05-2034 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 12 - Picking SidesThe Liberals and the Nationals split in an election aftershock .. But who will the media cast as the villain?The journalist versus the disgraced war hero - Ben Roberts Smith is vowing to take his fight to the High Court in a proceeding Denis Muller says is the most significant defamation case in Australian legal history.And .. Why would Donald Trump fan boy over the Saudi Crown Prince who ordered the brutal killing of a journalist? Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buy...2025-05-2034 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 11 - Mushroom FeverFive people are served beef wellingtons made with mushrooms for a special lunch hosted by a country Mum. Three guests do not survive the lunch, and the Mum is charged with 3 counts of murder, and one of attempted murder, to which she has pleaded not guilty. It is called the Mushroom Trial. The case has journalists and news watchers fixated. Why is this story dominating not only the podcast charts in Australia but headlines around the world?And after the belting Labor handed out to the Liberal Coalition, will the LNP s...2025-05-1335 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 11 - Mushroom FeverFive people are served beef wellingtons made with mushrooms for a special lunch hosted by a country Mum. Three guests do not survive the lunch, and the Mum is charged with 3 counts of murder, and one of attempted murder, to which she has pleaded not guilty. It is called the Mushroom Trial. The case has journalists and news watchers fixated. Why is this story dominating not only the podcast charts in Australia but headlines around the world?And after the belting Labor handed out to the Liberal Coalition, will the LNP s...2025-05-1335 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 10 - Bursting the BubbleWe look at the blind insanity of News Corp as it takes Peter Dutton by the hand and leads him to electoral annihilation - then lectures the Liberal Party for "missing the warning signs" in its national broadsheet. What's the future of the love in between Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal National Party, and has Saturday's bloodbath irreparably damaged the mogul's brand?Plus Kyle Sandilands threatens to pull his vile poorly-rating show out of Melbourne to punish audiences for not listening. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Kyle. 2025-05-0640 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 10 - Bursting the BubbleWe look at the blind insanity of News Corp as it takes Peter Dutton by the hand and leads him to electoral annihilation - then lectures the Liberal Party for "missing the warning signs" in its national broadsheet. What's the future of the love in between Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal National Party, and has Saturday's bloodbath irreparably damaged the mogul's brand?Plus Kyle Sandilands threatens to pull his vile poorly-rating show out of Melbourne to punish audiences for not listening. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Kyle. 2025-05-0640 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 9 - Desperate MeasuresAs the polls solidify against him, Peter Dutton equates journalistic scrutiny with hate speech. His "Hate Media" includes the ABC, Guardian Australia, and "others", which by inference are The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-2927 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 9 - Desperate MeasuresAs the polls solidify against him, Peter Dutton equates journalistic scrutiny with hate speech. His "Hate Media" includes the ABC, Guardian Australia, and "others", which by inference are The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-2927 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 8 - Fertiliser on the AstroturfAdvance and Atlas - the forces at work to mislead voters at election time.Influencers and their political ties - some progress on accountability. Word of a Russian military base in Indonesia is, for Dutton, too good to be true.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-2232 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 8 - Fertiliser on the AstroturfAdvance and Atlas - the forces at work to mislead voters at election time.Influencers and their political ties - some progress on accountability. Word of a Russian military base in Indonesia is, for Dutton, too good to be true.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-2232 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 7 - Clear and Present DangerThe damage done underplaying a pandemic - New University of Melbourne research reveals how News Corp's harmful Covid reporting made the crisis worse. Sizzling political slogans - the right wing firebrand Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says it loud and proud - the LNP want to make Australia great again! How will that go down as Peter Dutton distances himself from the Trump trainwreck.And Donald Trump's brazen market manipulation - crashing world stockmarkets and then posting to his own social media network to buy stocks before that bolt-from-the-blue policy backflip. Ho...2025-04-1646 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 7 - Clear and Present DangerThe damage done underplaying a pandemic - New University of Melbourne research reveals how News Corp's harmful Covid reporting made the crisis worse. Sizzling political slogans - the right wing firebrand Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says it loud and proud - the LNP want to make Australia great again! How will that go down as Peter Dutton distances himself from the Trump trainwreck.And Donald Trump's brazen market manipulation - crashing world stockmarkets and then posting to his own social media network to buy stocks before that bolt-from-the-blue policy backflip. Ho...2025-04-1646 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 6 - Dutton's ABC WarPeter Dutton sets his sights on the ABC, with a threat to cut funding if they don't produce his version of excellence - think LNP spin instead of news, and no pesky reporters asking questions. The News Corp machine ratchets up the Albanese name-calling as Dutton falls behind in the polls.And as the Trump-induced global stock market bloodbath shows no signs of abating... he tells a reporter questions on the financial shock are 'stupid'. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia...2025-04-0842 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 6 - Dutton's ABC WarPeter Dutton sets his sights on the ABC, with a threat to cut funding if they don't produce his version of excellence - think LNP spin instead of news, and no pesky reporters asking questions. The News Corp machine ratchets up the Albanese name-calling as Dutton falls behind in the polls.And as the Trump-induced global stock market bloodbath shows no signs of abating... he tells a reporter questions on the financial shock are 'stupid'. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia...2025-04-0842 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 5 - The Election CircusIt's election season - that means the Murdoch press will back-in Dutton while spewing out overblown critiques of the Teals, the Greens and Anthony Albanese.How do you wade through the carefully curated polly-speak, the claims and counter claims and the inflammatory headlines that may or may not be true? Plus why are social media influencers now included in the Budget lock-up - an annual event attended only by The Treasurer, his policy wonks and invited financial writers and political journalists?And an ex Channel 7 producer lobs another court bomb in th...2025-04-0130 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 5 - The Election CircusIt's election season - that means the Murdoch press will back-in Dutton while spewing out overblown critiques of the Teals, the Greens and Anthony Albanese.How do you wade through the carefully curated polly-speak, the claims and counter claims and the inflammatory headlines that may or may not be true? Plus why are social media influencers now included in the Budget lock-up - an annual event attended only by The Treasurer, his policy wonks and invited financial writers and political journalists?And an ex Channel 7 producer lobs another court bomb in th...2025-04-0130 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 4 - The Judge and the JournalistThe unprecedented arrangement between a former Supreme Court Justice and an Australian Newspaper journalist is yet another serious malfunction exposed around the Lehrmann saga.Plus - Meta and other US tech giants take issue with our News Media Bargaining Code, but this is about more than just media.And - Trump's culture-war surveys reach Australian universities.Audio clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 25 2025Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia2025-03-2533 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 4 - The Judge and the JournalistThe unprecedented arrangement between a former Supreme Court Justice and an Australian Newspaper journalist is yet another serious malfunction exposed around the Lehrmann saga.Plus - Meta and other US tech giants take issue with our News Media Bargaining Code, but this is about more than just media.And - Trump's culture-war surveys reach Australian universities.Audio clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 25 2025Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia2025-03-2533 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 3 - Streets of FearThe Allan govt caves to Herald Sun's relentless ‘streets under siege’ crime wave campaign, even though Vic has the third lowest crime rate in Australia. Is this really policy-making in the public interest?Plus - The family of a murdered woman traumatised by false claims reporting she was a sex worker.Plus - The Age has a bet each way by taking the money to publish bigoted screaming yellow front page ads in which Clive Palmer rails about there being only two genders - and then gets its journos to write front page stori...2025-03-1835 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 3 - Streets of FearThe Allan govt caves to Herald Sun's relentless ‘streets under siege’ crime wave campaign, even though Vic has the third lowest crime rate in Australia. Is this really policy-making in the public interest?Plus - The family of a murdered woman traumatised by false claims reporting she was a sex worker.Plus - The Age has a bet each way by taking the money to publish bigoted screaming yellow front page ads in which Clive Palmer rails about there being only two genders - and then gets its journos to write front page stori...2025-03-1835 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 2 - Great and PowerfulJoin Nicole and Denis as they discuss the rising trend of politicians appearing on influential podcasts, the need for scrutiny, and the podcaster's manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-1134 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 2 - Great and PowerfulJoin Nicole and Denis as they discuss the rising trend of politicians appearing on influential podcasts, the need for scrutiny, and the podcaster's manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-1134 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 1 - Attack DogsTrump's MAGA reporters are attack dogs unleashed on anyone who does not fawn over the President - not watchdogs protecting the people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-0533 minTruth, Lies and MediaEp 1 - Attack DogsTrump's MAGA reporters are attack dogs unleashed on anyone who does not fawn over the President - not watchdogs protecting the people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-0533 min
Spin CycleSupporting Youth JournalismHigh school student journalists Aidan Sinclair and Saskia De Leeuw Kyle join Jess and Charlie to discuss the YMCA Victorian Youth Parliament and its Youth Press Gallery program. They consider whether the environment simulates what it's really like being a journalist, and if there are enough outlets providing a platform for youth journalism. Jess and Charlie also cover the ABC and Nicole Chvastek, and the seemingly increasing newsworthiness of opinions.2023-08-0339 min