Truth, Lies and Media

A speeding stolen car, an injured pedestrian and terrified onlookers puts Bourke Street in the headlines again, in a chilling reminder of the deadly 2017 rampage. But when crime is retraumatising a city, why is the media response endless "lock em up and throw away the key" stories?Plus the end of an era with the Channel Seven media baron Kerry Stokes to retire after a $400m Seven West merger deal with Australia's biggest radio owner Southern Cross Media.  Another ominous legal settlement for Donald Trump who'll get $24m from YouTube which suspended his account in the wake of the Jan 6 riot - an extortion shakedown in plain sight says Dr Denis Muller.And Sky News which lectures the ABC and other media on journalistic integrity dumps the TV show that put an Islamophobic bigot live to air wearing rashers of bacon on his shoulders to protect him from "terrorists".Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The public backlash at the sacking of American late night host Jimmy Kimmel to appease Donald Trump becomes a hurricane .. and the Disney-owned ABC backflips as it hemorrhages money and subscribers.  Denis Muller says we are watching before our eyes the decay of the American democracy as its tyrannical leader terrorises major media outlets who broadcast or publish political critiques. Plus the Australian ABC reporter who made global headlines just by asking a legitimate question of the US President, prompting a classic tantrum and flurry of threats. Also .. Lachlan Murdoch tipped to buy into Tik Tok grabbing a major global social media platform in which to spread his dangerous hard right messaging. At the same time a signature Murdoch show on Sky News - which repeatedly lectures the ABC on morality - broadcasts an Islam-hating bigot wearing bacon rashers on his shoulders he says will protect him from "terrorists."And wake up Canberra press gallery! There are more important stories than fevered reporting on every second that Anthony Albanese did not meet the orange wrecking ball.Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Honour and the Cost of Court Reporting:From the Age to AW to the ABC, from the Gangland Wars to Black Saturday .. In this Saturday special of “Truth Lies and Media” Nicole Chvastek and the award winning court reporter Phil Johnson take us behind the scenes of some of Australia’s most unforgettable news stories. He saw a notorious hitman in court just hours before he was killed and was struck like lightning with a palpable sense of foreboding. He spent years in court as a reporter for 3AW watching Australia’s underworld criminals fight the long arm of the law but also seeing the victims in their grief, anger and dignity.Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThe shooting death of Trump youth ally Charlie Kirk lights a bonfire of media coverage and debate - but why did the June double murder of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband barely rate a mention in comparison?News of the shooting murder of Charlie Kirk swept around the world within minutes. The MAGA superstar was famous for arguing that gun deaths were an acceptable price to pay for gun freedoms - now he is dead at the hands of a sniper.Plus .. brace yourself for Fox News coming to Australia .. the Murdoch outlet that perpetuated the rigged election lie and has just been forced to apologise after one of its on air stars advocated giving lethal injections to mentally ill homeless people.And Stephen Colbert whose No. 1 rating "The Late Show" was axed by Paramount to appease Donald Trump has the last laugh with three standing ovations and an Emmy at American TVs night of nights.Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Investigative Journalism and What It Takes to Win:Denis Muller speaks with journalist Charlotte Grieve, the driving force behind the investigation of a renowned orthopaedic surgeon, resulting in a remarkable defamation case win for The Age / Channel 9.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there anyone out there the LNP don't hate? Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Liberal senator who aspires to be PM, blames the media after she gives an interview sledging Indian immigrants, triggering a backlash within her own party.  It's straight from the Trump playbook - demonising migrants and the journalists who report you doing it.Plus Murdoch's Sky News plays "as live" to air an uninterrupted unedited rant from neo Nazi Thomas Sewell .. live press conferences are usually reserved for reputable senior voices of authority, not white supremacists spreading hate.Denis Muller says we are witnessing an unfolding new era of racism. And the hunt to discover who is bankrolling war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith's failed defamation fight as lawyers for Nine ask for a please explain from billionaire Gina Rinehart.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Neo Nazi inserts himself into the news cycle with a bizarre and menacing rant at Jacinta Allan as she holds a press conference forcing it to be abandoned.These are not ‘anti immigration” protesters - they are violent racists. So why do some media normalise and downplay their dangerous hate speak?Plus whistleblower Richard Boyle had his life turned into hell by the ATO after he lifted the lid on their unethical debt collection practices - so they pursued him for seven years. Now a court has allowed him to walk free without a conviction.And why does Bob Katter want to punch a Channel Nine journalist for telling the truth?Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The shockwaves reverberate as two police officers are murdered in cold blood by a maniac with a gun and a grudge. The grief hits Victoria Police the families of the slain officers like a sledge hammer .. and the accused killer is now on the run.  How can journalists do justice to the outpouring of emotion and avoid intruding on those who are suffering while still ensuring the community is kept informed?Denis Muller will unpack the pressure points around reporting profound tragedy.And rape survivor Brittany Higgins ordered to pay her former boss Linda Reynolds $341,000 in damages and interest by the WA Supreme Court after a series of defamatory social media posts.. a huge win for the former Defence Minister. But why has West Australia along with the NT not enacted a critical public interest defence law which is in place everywhere else around Australia?Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fear not! This week's episode of Truth, Lies and Media will be available on Thursday instead of Wednesday, so that we can give you a full analysis of the WA Supreme Court defamation case unfolding right now.See you tomorrow!As always, Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We'd love to see you at our live Q&A on 7th October at the North Fitzroy Library hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talk__Dogwhistling up clickbait - A News Corp tabloid reproduces a flyer for an anti immigration national protest complete with racist slogans, dates and times .. as a young migrant chef tells us why she will be too afraid to travel to her workplace on that day.Is a letter of complaint from a pro Israel lobby about a Palestinian author the reason the Bendigo Writers Festival ordered authors not to discuss "inflammatory" topics - and was then left in ruins when half of the invited authors refused to attend?And we farewell gentleman film reviewer David Stratton some 'At The Movies' highlights and the moving written tribute from his friend and co-host Margaret Pomeranz. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A deadly airstrike kills the whole of Al Jazeeras reporting team in Gaza City .. Israel increasingly enraged as the world sees the carnage and opinion turns against them. Five newsmen died .. their crime .. telling their peoples story of starvation and suffering. Australia now says it will recognise a Palestinian state conditional on the removal of Hamas .. as the Liberals and their mates at News Corp unleash on the Prime Minister Plus The Age wins another mega defamation court battle.And if print newspapers are facing imminent extinction why is Rupert Murdoch rolling out a new one in California and partying like it's 1965?Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Murdoch's News Corp conflates a remarkably peaceful pro Palestine protest with hate and Hamas. Sky News called the historic Sydney Harbour Bridge rally a sign of "moral decline."It didn't matter this was the voice of up to 300,000 people taking a stand against violence and starvation. It didn't matter there were no arrests and no violence, even when police had to turn that sea of humanity around and send it back to the CBD.  Denis Muller says there is no limit to what News Corp will do to distort coverage of events and issues it is hostile to.Plus a Victorian MP to sue the Herald Sun in what may become a test case of new privacy laws.And 10 News Plus was touted as a "fresh" new way of doing news .. but is anybody watching the tanking show they bumped The Project for?__Read the Barney Zwartz article on Israel and Palestine here (may require a subscription):https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/in-30-years-at-the-age-i-never-wrote-on-israel-palestine-now-i-must-20250801-p5mjla.htmlThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalist Gary Tippet has seen a lot of tragedy but when he was assigned to cover the Port Arthur massacre and stopped at a beautiful old tree where two little girls and their mother were murdered something broke in him and he could not stop the tears.How do journalists carry the trauma of the stories they report .. and how do they protect the survivors from secondary trauma when they approach them for an interview on what is often the worst day of their life?This is a fascinating and revealing first hand insight into news gathering by one of the Australian media’s most experienced and respected Walkley Award winning journalists. Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A photo of a skeletal child cradled in its mothers arms finally brings home the horror of mass starvation in Gaza and the tide of media opinion turns against Israel.Denis Muller says journalists are discarding an old taboo and using the word "genocide" to describe the mass starvation Israel denies is happening.Plus the big global news organisations sign a joint statement warning the journalists and photographers telling this story of man made famine and brutality will themselves soon die from starvation if aid doesn't come quickly.  And first there was Fox News .. now the United States looks like getting another Trump mouthpiece news network as presidential ally and the world's second richest man Larry Ellison buys Paramount, parent company of CBS. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reporting on a massacre - Israel mows down dozens of starving Palestinians trying to get food at aid hubs. Dr. Denis Muller says only running IDF talking points while covering these atrocities is not journalism, and sets out the principles reporters should be keeping in mind.  Plus the growing calls for anti semitism envoy Jillian Segal to be sacked after it was revealed her husband donated $50,000 to a hate group called Advance which runs anti Palestinian narratives ..And two tribes go to war .. An enraged Donald Trump sues the media mogul who helped get him into the White House. Rupert Murdoch's being accused of libel after his paper The Wall Street Journal reported details of a lewd birthday greeting Trump allegedly wrote to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.  Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trauma and journalism live side-by-side.Journalists often find themselves having to interview people who have been through a traumatic experience because traumatizing events are often matters of serious public interest.That’s because they raise questions of public safety and, sometimes, questions about causation and about the adequacy of the official response.The people who lived through these experiences are important witnesses because they can give first-hand accounts of what happened.How media crews treat these people can affect the traumatized person’s psychological welfare.But exposure to traumatized people and to the events that caused their trauma can also have a psychological effect on the journalists, camera crew and photographers who cover these stories.So there are two sides to this issue:How media crews treat the traumatized people they cover, and how covering these events affects the media crews.Dr Cait McMahon, OAM, is a psychologist who was the founding managing director of the Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism, Asia-Pacific, from its inception in 2003 until her retirement in 2021.In 2016 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her work with journalists and trauma.This special episode is the first of a new series of Deep-Dive conversations, released alongside the weekly Truth, Lies and Media Podcast episodes. Join us each Wednesday for chats with Nicole and Denis, and keep an eye on this RSS feed for future deep dive episodes. Register here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anti-semitism envoy or propagandist?Jillian Segal puts those favourite whipping boys the ABC, SBS, universities and the arts straight into the firing line by suggesting they be stripped of funding if they fail to address anti semitism - but cannot identify any smoking gun failings to would justify such draconian action.Denis Muller has condemned the sweeping review as an authoritarian overreach which should be pulped immediately.Plus .. the Image Consultants go to town in the remaking of Sussan Ley. Are this weeks media characterisations of her as a plucky gun-toting bushgirl who warded off an attacker in her youth, or the Womens Weekly soft lens treatment, really going to cut through to the Liberals intractable "women problem?"Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Leongatha mother of two Erin Patterson is declared a triple murderer who killed her in laws with a lunch of beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms, and newsrooms in Australia and around the world go into overdrive.It's the biggest international story to come out of Australia since Cardinal George Pell was convicted according to Denis Muller, and it's not over yet.Plus ex ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf tells why she fought on through the courts after being illegally sacked, despite anonymous death threats and potential financial ruin. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Federal Court has found that the ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it sacked casual broadcaster Antoinette Latouf, ordering it to pay her $70,000.Senior ABC managers fell into “a state of panic” after an orchestrated campaign by pro Israel lobbyists to have Latouf taken off air, and pressure form The Australian newspaper. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ancient enemies Iran and the United States lock horns as Donald Trump unleashes his GBU57 bunker buster bombs and Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iranian nuclear sites which he claims were "obliterated", and then paints himself as a great world peacemaker.If truth is the first casualty of war how can consumers of media drill down into what is true amid blizzards of disinformation?And, he was a respected foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, a political reporter and an ABC star. But after a storied 40 year career in the media Stan Grant tells "Compass" why he walked away from a profession he now describes as "poison".Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmediaRegister here for our live Q&A Event on 7th October, hosted by Friends of the ABC:https://events.humanitix.com/truth-lies-and-media-meet-the-podcasters-talkThank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.