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Media Watch
ABC TV
Show • 89 episodes
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Media Watch is Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment, screening on ABC TV on Monday at 9.15 pm. Turns a critical eye on the media in general and journalism in particular
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Stop the Boeings; When Benny Met Sharri; Tech trip up
Episode • Aug 25
Bro code; Animal farm; Snakes on a train
Episode • Aug 18
Hold the cheese; Unforced error; List fail
Episode • Aug 11
Europe has fallen; Thanks for watching!; Picture imperfect
Episode • Aug 4
Strange bedfellows; Photographing famine; Half disclosure
Episode • Jul 28
Prison peacock; Forbidden City; Achilles' heel
Episode • Jul 21
Much room for mushrooms; Fries with that
Episode • Jul 14
Advertiser’s tabloid turn; Under the bonnet; Lecturing the point
Episode • Jul 7
Lattouf wins; Feeding time
Episode • Jun 30
Gone nuclear; Hot pursuit; Mokbel payday
Episode • Jun 23
Press safety; Arms advocate; Conflict Class
Episode • Jun 16
Thumb war; Chagrined charities; Injustice ignored
Episode • Jun 9
I Wake Up in Dubai; Jumping the gun; Palestine pulled
Episode • Jun 2
It’s complicated; Lights out; AI book list
Episode • May 26
Defamation discharge, Furry fever; Bear baiting
Episode • May 19
Holy smoke; Destination unknown; Gone west
Episode • May 12
Election surprise; DNA discoveries; Dog days
Episode • May 5
Poll position; ABC Radio chair-bound
Episode • Apr 28
Billionaire gives back; Reins of power
Episode • Apr 14
Miracle sports water; Travel insurance tales; Radio rebels rebuked
Episode • Apr 7
Influencers take Canberra; Star journo’s secret recording; There’s a bear in there
Episode • Mar 31
Plant Closure Questions; Twiggy’s Meta Fight; Seven’s Robot Fashionistas
Episode • Mar 24
Caravan fizzer; Clive’s back!; Punter or player
Episode • Mar 17
Alfred's media moment; Housing number questions; Trump’s press pals
Episode • Mar 10
Marty Sheargold’s red card; The Australian's unreliable source; Steve Price investigates
Episode • Mar 3
‘Jack The Ripper’ amnesia; Seven boosts Basil; Murdoch family drama
Episode • Feb 24
Sam Newman’s Nazi boost; Daily Tele’s stunt backfires; Seven’s horoscope horror
Episode • Feb 17
Trump 2.0 media circus; ABC’s ‘Antoinette issue’; Nine's beach house porkies.
Episode • Feb 10
Asylum visa error; Nine ditches Darwin news; Planet spin-off pushes merch.
Episode • Feb 3
Paul Barry farewell
Episode • Dec 2, 2024
Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok ban!; Macca and Dick; ABC Radio Upheaval.
Episode • Nov 25, 2024
Amsterdam riots; 2GB spears and fears; Coked up ACT.
Episode • Nov 18, 2024
Trump’s triumph; Where is the outrage?; ACMA's KIIS.
Episode • Nov 11, 2024
US showdown
Episode • Nov 4, 2024
Billionaire Blunder; Israel strike kills 3 reporters; No, Harvey, No!
Episode • Oct 28, 2024
Cassie’s big sell; Reporting from Lebanon; Royal Bait.
Episode • Oct 21, 2024
Hurricane Heroics; Gaza media bloodshed; EV backfire; John Laws quits again.
Episode • Oct 14, 2024
Deadly war for journalists; Seven’s Rainmaker; Sky News Election Lie.
Episode • Oct 7, 2024
Supermarket rip-offs; Some Help from Tony; Al Fayed exposed; Deadly clickbait.
Episode • Sep 30, 2024
ABC accused of audio no-no; Ghost papers haunt regional towns; Murdoch “Succession”.
Episode • Sep 23, 2024
Ten’s tasteless “exclusive”; Overdose of inaccuracy; Pet-eating debunked; Nine’s unease as Sneesby exits.
Episode • Sep 16, 2024
Taking the piss; Media’s gambling addiction; Grenfell fire culture war; Vale Tim Bowden.
Episode • Sep 9, 2024
Fordham breach; Barrier Reef: thriving or dying?; Gina says.
Episode • Sep 2, 2024
Harry ‘doomsayer’ Dent; ABC MD quits; Political influencers.
Episode • Aug 26, 2024
Gaza visa fight; Media mogul Musk; ‘White powder’ whispers; Promo whoops.
Episode • Aug 19, 2024
Olympic blow; Media terror rhetoric; Nuclear censorship; Autism lasers.
Episode • Aug 12, 2024
Fake news sparks riots; Wrong Flag; Smut FM.
Episode • Aug 5, 2024
Gold medal junkets; Attacking Kamala Harris; Woodside PR.
Episode • Jul 29, 2024
Trump & Murdoch; Anti-EV campaign; Amazon PR.
Episode • Jul 22, 2024
Trump shot at; Biden warnings; Hottest crim; Seven’s satire and stars.
Episode • Jul 15, 2024
The framing of Senator Payman; Free-to-air ‘death spiral’; Tory bloodbath.
Episode • Jul 8, 2024
Dutton Snapchat scandal; Assange - guilty but free; Biden horror.
Episode • Jul 1, 2024
Dutton’s nuclear play; AFL kiss ‘outrage’; Cheng Lei bullied.
Episode • Jun 24, 2024
Roxy’s giveaway embarrassment; Far-right love; Oz’s Hitler smear; ‘Porn hooked’ tribe.
Episode • Jun 17, 2024
Costello’s fall; Origin head knock; Radio replay.
Episode • Jun 10, 2024
Guilty Trump fallout; Criminal Court attacks; Aunty’s Tingle tangle.
Episode • Jun 3, 2024
Terror in the skies; Albo’s ‘new’ jet; Nuclear Fantasy; Soggy Sunak.
Episode • May 27, 2024
Albo’s eviction notice; Whistleblower jailed; Nine’s cruise freebie.
Episode • May 20, 2024
Furry fury; AI unmasked; AFR v Stokes; Sunrise vax scare
Episode • May 13, 2024
Not Russian spies; ‘Migration Watch’ unmasked; Rolling TV Coverage.
Episode • May 6, 2024
Musk the villain; Trump’s ‘catch & kill’; AI news rip-off
Episode • Apr 29, 2024
Lehrmann fallout; Hugh Grant v Murdoch; Snowtown freedom?
Episode • Apr 22, 2024
Bondi Junction attack; ‘Lehrmann raped Higgins’; Brumbies & the ABC
Episode • Apr 15, 2024
Coke for comment; Gaza Aid Workers; News Gamification.
Episode • Apr 8, 2024
Rudd Trumped; Spotlight on Auerbach; ABC’s AFL rewind.
Episode • Mar 25, 2024
Roxy’s Giveaway; ABC-Lattouf case; Bronwyn sorry, again.
Episode • Mar 18, 2024
NRL’s Vegas Dazzle; Meta Media ‘War’; Four Corners ‘Hit job’.
Episode • Mar 11, 2024
Rolfe’s media ‘friend’; Gut balloon; Alleged kidnapping; Sky News kayfabe.
Episode • Mar 4, 2024
Taylor Mania; Navalny’s death; Buyback balls-up; Correcting The Australian.
Episode • Feb 26, 2024
Barnaby’s fall; Humanising war victims; Seven ignores Gap.
Episode • Feb 19, 2024
Biden's 'poor memory'; Tucker & Putin; Bolt v Police; G-string g-up.
Episode • Feb 12, 2024
PM’s breach of faith; ABC, Lattouf & lobbyists; Cricket’s invisible winner; AI sexism.
Episode • Feb 5, 2024
Seven’s Lehrmann deal; Amazon’s media blitz; From India with love.
Episode • Dec 4, 2023
Demonised detainees; ABC “betrayal’; Deepfake scams.
Episode • Nov 27, 2023
Studio 10 axed; Hamas hospital HQ; Dan Andrews golf ban.
Episode • Nov 20, 2023
Optus Fail; Whales & windfarms; Microsoft’s murder poll.
Episode • Nov 13, 2023
Gaza War – 4 weeks on
Episode • Nov 6, 2023
‘High-profile man’ named; Billionaire Pratt; Putin’s cardiac arrest; Ronaldo’s 99 lashes.
Episode • Oct 30, 2023
Fog of War
Episode • Oct 23, 2023
Israel-Hamas war; No to Voice; ABC defames commando.
Episode • Oct 16, 2023
ABC cops pressure; Nine’s Block concerns; Kelly v academics.
Episode • Oct 9, 2023
Dan departs; Pezzullo exposed; GB News trouble.
Episode • Oct 2, 2023
Murdoch Succession; Russell Brand reckoning; Karl’s Uni failure.
Episode • Sep 25, 2023
Fight over Voice
Episode • Sep 18, 2023
Shock Front Page; A Current Affair Confessions; Watchdog slaps OZ; Qantas Rejoyce.
Episode • Sep 11, 2023
Qantas crisis; Climate activists gagged; BBC wrong Guy.
Episode • Sep 4, 2023
The truth is out there; Climate retraction; Mushroom mystery; Ticks and crosses.
Episode • Aug 28, 2023
Nine’s terror scare; Sky hosts at war; Lehrmann’s $6 million; AFR gotcha fails
Episode • Aug 21, 2023
Marvelous Matildas; X kills Twitter; Kyle’s indecency obsession; No ordinary renter.
Episode • Aug 14, 2023
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