Archive for 'Journalists'
Who is doing the killing in Gaza?
Posted by John, November 18th, 2012 - under Chomsky, Israel, Journalists, Palestine.
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We wish to express our outrage at the reprehensible media coverage of these acts [in Gaza] in the mainstream (corporate) media. We call on journalists around the world working for corporate media outlets to refuse to be instruments of this systematic policy of disguise. We call on citizens to inform themselves through independent media, and to voice their conscience by whichever means is accessible to them.
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Of course we want independent newspapers
Posted by John, June 21st, 2012 - under Australian Financial Review, Fairfax, Gina Rinehart, Independence, Journalism, Journalists, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald.
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A good first start to independence and to building it on the ground would be for Fairfax workers to strike against the planned 1900 job cuts.
Fairfax to offshore jobs
Posted by John, June 12th, 2012 - under Fairfax, Journalists, MEAA, Media, Strikes.
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If MEAA members went out indefinitely at Fairfax the revenue loss would in all likelihood quickly drag management back to the negotiating table.
Many years ago the BLF had a slogan – if you don’t fight you lose. It is as true today as it was then.
Close Fairfax down until it withdraws its job cuts.
Sexism or scrutiny?
Posted by John, February 8th, 2012 - under Bob Brown, Journalism, Journalists, Julia Gillard, Women workers, Women's liberation, Women's oppression, sexism.
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Comments about Gillard’s hair or her dress sense or lack of affability can’t be divorced from the wider oppression of women in society. They reinforce stereotypes about women as having a role that must fit within the dominant power structure of capitalism – as objects of men’s desire and displaying ‘feminine’ characteristics.
However Bob Brown was being too cute by half in blaming criticism of Gillard on sexism. After all this is the do nothing Government he supports and sustains so attacks on Labor are also a criticism of him and his do nothing Greens.
You cannot hide behind sexism to divert attention away from the failure of Labor to inspire its base. That is part of the problem – Labor’s neoliberalism.
A resurgence in struggle, in fighting for equal pay now, free abortion on demand, free childcare, would challenge the very structures of capitalist oppression. Therein lies the way forward, not tired bleating about sexist reporting that ignores the systemic oppression of women under capitalism.
ABCC Stoops To “Bullying Tactics” Against Journalists
Posted by John, February 27th, 2009 - under ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Building industry, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Free speech, Journalists, MEAA, Media.
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This is just in from the MEAA, the journalists’ union. The Australian Building and Construction Commission has turned its coercive powers onto journalists, issuing subpoenas to two publications in an attempt to force journalists to give up notes for their stories on the Westgate Bridge demarcation dispute. See ABCC stoops to bullying tactics against journalists.