Advance 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.
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Ep 7 - Clear and Present Danger
The 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 6 - Dutton's ABC War
Peter 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 5 - The Election Circus
It'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 the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann defamation action.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.
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Ep 4 - The Judge and the Journalist
The 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/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behind the headlines in their revealing podcast Truth, Lies and Media. New episodes each Wednesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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