These days journalists get killed with remarkable regularity – by “friendly fire”, by oppressive regimes and by the traditional self-inflicted wounds.
All posts by Noel Turnbull
Miscellany: Jeb and the tsunami
While The Guardian and others are laughing at the fact that no-one recognized Jeb Bush when he went a-visiting with folks around the tsunami area the last laugh might just be on them.
Miscellany: Stingy or not?
The New York Times is not as diffident about the word stingy as many others are – this week it published an editorial headed: Are we Stingy? Yes.
Miscellany: The Australian film industry and its context
When was the last time you saw a good Australian film? When was the last time you saw a poor New Zealand film?
Miscellany: Gunns and gratuitous advice
One remarkable thing about the Gunns case against the greens and others is the amount of gratuitous advice all sides are getting.
Miscellany: Robert Reich and abortion
There have been more US abortions in each year of the Bush administration than there were in each year of the Clinton administration.
Miscellany: Flaks, James Hardie and Jackson Wells Morris
Jackson Wells Morris Chairman, Keith Jackson, has encouraged crikey readers to visit the JWM website to see their updated client list rather than rely on Miscellany’s www.disinfopedia.com source.
Miscellany: PR firms and their clients
While it may surprise many people, PR firms do have internal debates and debates with others about whether they should take on specific clients or not.
Miscellany: Paradoxes, deficits and the poor
Two of the great paradoxes of our neo-liberal world are the tendency of the poorest voters to support right-wing parties and the Panglossian equanimity with which right wing governments’ economic problems are greeted.
Miscellany: The next big financial scandal
Two of the most remarkable characteristics of the long stock market boom of the past decade or so have been the almost endemic presence of financial scandal and the persistent attempts by business leaders to claim that it’s all due to a “few bad apples” and should not lead to “over-regulation”.