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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 10, 2008
One of the great troupes of English travellers who swarmed through the Orient in the 18th century included Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Lady Mary’s Turkish Letters present her impressions of a flying visit to the Ottoman …
Also tagged: iraq, blogs, featured, al qaeda, surge, cucumbers, media and culture, helen pringle
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 29, 2008
With in the space of a few years, two of the bastions of Australian media - Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Fairfax Media - have been humbled by the vicissitudes of corporate fate. Both companies once dominated …
Also tagged: strike, hero, job cuts, fairfax, media and culture, fairfax walkout
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 27, 2008
Last week, in a speech delivered at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, Pope Paul Keating held forth on geopolitics to a rapt audience: "The fact is we are again heading towards a bipolar world. Not one shaped by a …
Also tagged: terrorism, china, foreign policy, featured, us foreign policy, international affairs, paul keating, maryann keady
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 24, 2008
As any decent PR hack will tell you, if you want to get your brand all over the media without too much effort, just release a report on a touchy subject that says exactly what you want it to say. read more
Also tagged: hero, housing, banks, quality of life, media and culture, ben eltham, bankwest
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 13, 2008
Six years ago, I met an elderly Englishman named Bill Porter who was wandering the world trying to resurrect public values in journalism. read more
Also tagged: journalism, torture, ethics, media and culture, martin flanagan
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 4, 2008
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Also tagged: human rights, blogs, china, olympics, featured, chinese government, international affairs, internet censorship, beijing olympics, blogwatch
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jun 16, 2008
It might be one of the biggest sub-national States in the world, but Western Australia can feel like a very small place indeed. Perth in particular, sitting all alone between the desert and the deep blue sea, can be …
Also tagged: featured, western australia, fairfax, media and culture, david ritter, media diversity, kerry stokes, watoday, the west australian, paul armstrong
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jun 3, 2008
In an opinion article published last week, Andrew M Potts described as "bizarre" my claim that self-appointed activists, on the extreme fringe of the wider community, have hijacked the "gay marriage" debate to …
Also tagged: religion, featured, gay marriage, same sex marriage, catholicism, civil society, john heard, same sex rights, homo con
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - May 22, 2008
Imran Ahmad isn’t the sort of Muslim you’d find gracing the front page of The Herald-Sun on the morning after an anti-terror raid. There’s no beard, no turban, no white robes. When I caught up with Ahmad earlier this …
Also tagged: islam, london bombings, identity, londonistan, imam, melanie phillips, media and culture, islam and the west, irfan yusuf, sydney writers and 039 festival
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - May 21, 2008
A front page story in Monday’s New York Times wondered whether Hillary Clinton’s flagging run for the presidency was "a historic if incomplete triumph or a depressing reminder of why few [women] pursue high office in …
Also tagged: us elections, hillary clinton, featured, rocky balboa, arianna huffington, feminism, chelsea clinton, bill clinton, international affairs, us politics