The dangers of biased media narratives
There is no better illustration of the dangers of biased media narratives – media inequality – than the differing perceptions about COVID-19 in NSW, as […]
Articles by Dr Victoria Fielding
Explaining Media Inequality
As many of my social media friends and Twitter followers know, I have written a book about the cause of media bias – explaining media […]
Journalists need to be watchdogs in the marketplace of ideas
When Donald Trump launched his ‘birther movement’ in the lead up to the 2012 US presidential candidate race, his accusations about President Obama’s place of […]
Watchdogs asleep in their kennels
Political journalists pride themselves on being watchdogs who prevent abuse of power. Watchdogs are supposed to bark when they smell something suspicious. So how do […]
Playing the ref with a fake tax
The Liberals are playing the ref by tagging Labor’s dividend imputation policy a ‘retirement tax’. It is not surprising they see this as a productive […]
#SolidaritySunday
They say a week is a long time in politics. Australia has just proven three weeks is an eternity. Although the days of the Liberal […]
We all know Rupert Murdoch runs the Liberal Party
We all know Rupert Murdoch runs the Liberal Party. Can we all agree it is time he stopped running the country too? No matter who […]
We need to talk about Mitchell
On Monday night, I had the pleasure of being one of the first ‘people’ to sit on the Q&A People’s Panel. I had a great […]
The capitalism beast beneath the bed
One of my daughter’s favourite bedtime stories is The Beast Beneath the Bed. The little boy in the book is scared of the beast beneath […]
It’s the demographics, stupid
Why do the Greens exist? It depends who you ask. Some say the purpose of the Greens is to pull Labor to the left. This […]
The triple-pincers: showing their true colours
There is a line in the brilliant Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It which Labor should use as their mantra when developing policies and communicating […]
We need to talk about Jean
This week, in response to Labor’s announcement that shareholders who pay no tax will no longer be getting cash back from the government, the Herald […]
Barnaby Joyce: he doesn’t think properly
This is a guest post by Kay Rollison, my wonderful mother, who was so fired up about the Barnaby Joyce saga, she just couldn’t let […]
Just a flesh wound
It was only meant to be a flesh wound, it wasn’t meant to end Barnaby’s career. That was his fault. This is the basic message […]
The truth bomb that terrifies Turnbull
There is mass outrage today at the news that Turnbull has pressured the ABC to take down and censor parts of an article by Emma […]