Next Episode of Media Watch is
Season 2024 / Episode 42 and airs on 25 November 2024 10:35
Media Watch is Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment.Conflicts of interest, bank backflips, deceit, misrepresentation, manipulation, plagiarism, abuse of power, technical lies and straight out fraud: Media Watch has built an unrivalled record of exposing media shenanigans since it first went to air in 1989.The media provides the information we need to make decisions about our lives, but how reliable are the media reports that shape our views of the world?Media Watch turns the spotlight onto those who literally 'make the news': the reporters, editors, sub-editors, producers, camera operators, sound recordists and photographers who claim to deliver the world to our doorsteps, radios, computers and living rooms. We also keep an eye on those who try to manipulate the media: the PR consultants, spin-doctors, lobbyists and "news makers" who set the agenda.
Media Watch returns for a new year observing and providing fearless critique of the media. First up tonight: media companies oppose draft laws; Muslim fashion outrage; Nine News for sale.
Would you like facts with that?; The Barnaby affair; Cabinet leaks: from scoop to sorry.
Turnbull sex ban; Taxing times at the ABC; The RSPCA and public accountability; Back from the future.
ABC rallies the troops; Nick Cater's hypocrisy; Mass shootings covered LIVE; More ads masquerading as news.
A Sunrise to forget; Labor's Tax Storm; Fake Sydney property story exposes media; Daily Mail's African gang obsession; Old footage used in Tathra fire coverage.
Final for 2018
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