Posted by: donallan on: 30 April 2012
While I do not like brainwashing as a means of getting people to accept ideas, occasionally repetition can be acceptable. I make that statement in defence of my occasional attempts to get people make comment of the subject of my blog rather than the subject of a blog they have read on another website. Unfortunately [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 26 November 2011
To all commentators You’ll have noticed that I answered someone saying that although I have Twitter I rarely use it. The fact is that I write opinion pieces of approximately 700 words on a specific subject, as a weekly contributor to The Chronicle, Canberra, hoping it might spur readers into replying to the editor with [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 17 November 2011
First published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday, 15 September 2011 The political Silly Season will soon be upon us although some people think it’s always here. It is called the Silly Season because just as weather forecasters talk of wet springs, cool summers, poor autumns and winters bereft of snow, in the Silly Season journalists take [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 26 July 2011
Online Opinion, 26 July, 2011 The scandal tsunami that struck Rupert Murdoch’s news empire, wiped the tabloid News of the World (NOTW), from the face of the earth. At the same time it hastened people’s disenchantment with the press and gave death to the saying ‘It must be true. It’s in the paper.’ The NOTW [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 7 March 2011
Many journalists have a conflict of interest when it comes to politics no matter how much they deny it. Some do their utmost to avoid being biased by occasionally running with the hare and chasing with the hounds. However, some journalists manage to avoid being seen as biased because they are clever actors althouhgh this [...]
