In cyberspace,
information is not free: the Dow Jones decision
The High Court’s decision to allow Joseph
Gutnick to take Dow Jones to court in Victoria has significant
implications for freedom of speech on the Internet,
argues DAVID GRANT.
Interview with John Pilger
By Anna Hustler Q: What obstacles
have you run into in your career with actually getting
the truth out to the public in terms of censorship and
bureaucracy?
Mulling it over: Jeff McMullen
By Jano Gibson Do you think as a journalist,
seeing a lot of the problems that happen around the
world, that it creates a stronger sense of understanding
of what’s going on out in the world?
UTS to report on Middle Eastern
media coverage by Peita Davis A
project monitoring the Australian media’s coverage
of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is now underway
at UTS.
Who’s monitoring
the Internet screeners? by Jane Searle
Public scrutiny of Internet censorship is under fire,
as the federal government tightens provisions on Freedom
of Information laws. Changes proposed in July will make
Internet censors unaccountable, says the civil liberties
group Electronic Frontiers Australia
Free speech versus vilification:
are journalists getting the balance right?
By Felicity James “There
is no such thing as freedom of speech. There is no such
thing as the right to know.”
Defamation
law: protecting reputations or preventing reporting?
by Chris Collins Sydney may not be
Australia’s capital city, but it can safely claim
the title of world’s defamation capital, a recent
conference heard. Along with a reputation for its beautiful
harbour and picturesque beaches, Sydney is gaining a
reputation for leading the world in the number of defamation
cases per capita.
Exposing
hidden agendas by Jane Searle Previously
unpublicised stories and buried news were given a public
airing at the ACIJ’s recent Public Right To Know
Conference. From art to politics, from law to refugee
rights, a common thread of injustice ran through the
speeches in the session called "Hidden Stories
and Incidents of Suppression”.
Pacific
media 'gatekeepers' condemned at conference
SYDNEY (Pacific Media Watch): Some Pacific
news media industry leaders are manipulative and hostile
towards the region's education and the Solomon Islands
media is dominated by ethnic Malaitan gatekeepers, an
Australian public right to know conference has been
told.
Foreign
correspondent blasts 'political lies' SYDNEY
(Pacific Media Watch): Leading Australian foreign correspondent
Jeff McMullen has warned against being fooled by the
"big lies" of politicians about the war on
terrorism.
‘This
bleeding heart nonsense…’ by
Sarah Malik The Public Right to Know conference
promised to provide “a forum for vigorous discussion
among different points of view” and it did not
disappoint.
Speaking
out for free speech education by Megan Edwards
By comparison to North America, Australia has fallen
behind. No, this is not another article about the Pan
Pac Swimming Championships, or the music charts: it’s
about education.
Money talks
by Tuan Van Le Three years after the
‘Cash for Comments’ scandal uncovered the
influence corporate business played in the world of
talkback radio, the ethical and practical consequences
for journalism are still being debated. A panel at the
Public Right to Know Conference, held last month at
the University of Technology, Sydney, discussed the
implications of the inquiry set up to investigate the
relationship between Sydney’s top rating radio
hosts and their corporate sponsors.
Unpicking
the Mickelberg stitch by Elin Myrekrok "I
had to make a decision whether to stay and help or to
write a bloody story, and I chose to stay and help."
It’s a lonely life in the
flying hacks circus by Alison Riedy.
When Jonathon Harley first went to India four years
ago he had an expressed disinterest in conflicts and
cricket. In the end he covered both.
Geoff
Clark by Anne Tran. When Melbourne's The
Age newspaper published allegations that Geoff Clark,
the Chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, had raped four women in the 1970s and 1980s,
there were cries of protest. But The Age probably did
not expect that many - if not most - of those cries
would be directed against the newspaper itself.
Jeff
McMullen by Tim Chapman. In an address to
the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism's (ACIJ)
annual conference this October (2001), the former ABC
correspondent said: "Most of what passes as news
today is trivia... there is good reason for the public
to question whether network journalists are fulfilling
their responsibility to the public right to know."
Remembering terror: A Vietnamese
perspective by Penny Lake. I was working
in Hanoi as a sub-editor on the Vietnam Economic Times
magazine. The date was September 11.
BHP abandoning
Ok Tedi Australian mining giant BHP are negotiating
a deal with the PNG government to pull out of the controversial
Ok Tedi gold and copper mine in January 2002, reports
Fran Molloy. Environmentalists and local landowners
have accused the company of avoiding its responsibilities
to clean up the environmental mess it has made, and
fixing up the mining practices before handing it over
to the PNG government.
Water Wars
Jenny Goldie, in a series of articles, reports
on a substance that is becoming more precious than diamonds.
Forum of
fingerpointers Business journalist's role in the
reporting of the HIH and One.Tel disasters were discussed
at the George Munster Forum, raising some uncomfortable
questions about the relationship between business journalists
and the PR industry reports Mark Beirne.
Swiss journalist
jailed in Irian Jaya Oswald Iten speaks to Moses
Iten about his experiences in an Irian Jayan jail
for 12 days in December 2000, during which Oswald witnessed
torture and murder inside the jail.
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