Media Watch - Season 20 / Year 2023
Season 20 / Year 2023
Episodes
Episode 1
Clarke's tabloid turmoil; ChatGPT v journalism; AFR fooled. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 2
Alice Springs fury; Robodebt 'friendly media'.
Episode 3
Rate rise rumble; Lehrmann sues; Crypto coma; Google's bad Bard.
Episode 4
Can't rule out aliens!; Unhappy billionaire; Buy more ads!
Episode 5
Falconio misfire; Fox's Big Lie; Nurse's 'campaign of harassment'.
Episode 6
Super brawl; Triggered shock jocks; ABC's Veritas correction.
Episode 7
Super brawl; Triggered shock jocks; ABC's Veritas correction.
Episode 8
AUKUS raucous; The Barilaro tapes; Surviving the ads.
Episode 9
Minns wins; FOI fight; Putin's "body double"; Perth red faces.
Episode 10
Trump surrender; Seven's diet plug; Latham's latest disgrace.
Episode 11
News or Coles PR?; Media and privacy; Herald Sun 'misleading'.
Episode 12
Where's Lidia? Fox, lies and consequences; Warner's tabloid shame.
Episode 13
King Kyle's wedding; Sky News 'misleading'; Putin jails journalist; Nine's hommus knight.
Episode 14
King's coverage; MasterChef death; Sunrise stadium love; ScoMo's Maccas myth.
Episode 15
CNN hosts Trump; Qantas culls AFR; Reality TV "death".
Episode 16
ACA privacy breach; Digital media deaths; Stan Grant; Dairy spin.
Episode 17
Nine's Modi mania; Taser tragedy; Blayney family affair.
Episode 18
BRS - a media victory; Garlic kills COVID?; McGowan's farewell.
Episode 19
20 years after being found guilty of killing her four infant children, what role did the media play in Kathleen Folbigg's pardon? Along with: Peter Glesson returns & Philip Lowe's musical crime.
Episode 20
Leaks, privacy and the press - the media trial of Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann.
Episode 21
News values lost at sea; Probyn axed; Transgender TERF war.
Episode 22
Tyrrell leak; Seven 'baby killer'; Kooky Kennedy.
Episode 23
Voice ad anger; Nelly Yoa's return; Ashes prank.
Episode 24
The Sun v BBC; ABC's defo drama; Costly cock-up.
Episode 25
Too hot to deny; Sex book panic; Scenic sinks.
Episode 26
Lost at sea?; Seven's World Cup snub; Barbie mania; Tele's dead body shock.
Episode 27
Onya Sonia; ABC and Woodside; Football fever.
Episode 28
Marvelous Matildas; X kills Twitter; Kyle's indecency obsession; No ordinary renter.
Episode 29
Nine's terror scare; Sky hosts at war; Lehrmann's $6 million; AFR gotcha fails.
Episode 30
The truth is out there; Climate retraction; Mushroom mystery; Ticks and crosses.
Episode 31
Qantas crisis; Climate activists gagged; BBC wrong Guy.
Episode 32
Shock Front Page; A Current Affair Confessions; Watchdog slaps OZ; Qantas Re-Joyce.
Episode 33
A look at the Voice to parliament referendum, the social media campaigns, the latest polling and the quality of the media debate.
Episode 34
Murdoch Succession: Russell Brand reckoning: Karl's Uni failure.
Episode 35
Dictator Dan goes out a winner: Michael Pezzullo's bombshell texts: GB News presenter outrage.
Episode 36
ABC cops pressure; Nine's Block concerns; Kelly v academics.
Episode 37
Israel-Hamas war; No to Voice; ABC defames commando.
Episode 38
Fog of War: We look at coverage of the deadly hospital blast at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza which was initially reported as an Israeli air strike.
Episode 39
Lehrmann named; Billionaire Pratt; Putin's cardiac arrest; Ronaldo's 99 lashes.
Episode 40
Gaza War - 4 weeks on -- Reporters grapple with misinformation, disinformation and propaganda as they sift through what's true, what's legal and what's morally justified.
Episode 41
Optus Fail; Whales and windfarms; Microsoft's murder poll.
Episode 42
Studio 10 axed; Hamas hospital HQ; Dan Andrews golf ban.
Episode 43
Demonised detainees; ABC "betrayal"; Deepfake scams.
Episode 44
Seven's Lehrmann deal; Amazon's media blitz; From India with love.
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