BONUS EPISODE: We investigated The Australian’s years-long smear campaign targeting Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. Antoinette Lattouf and data analyst Dr Richard Bean crunched the numbers, and what we found points to a relentless, wide-ranging and coordinated media offensive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgk...
EXCLUSIVE: A data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by The Australian targeting Randa Abdel-Fattah. The paper has written more articles on her than Nine papers, Guardian, ACM papers & ABCNews online COMBINED
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Well, we're comforted. Thanks Prime Minister.
This week we unpack the drama around Hasan Piker, Anthony Albanese’s borderline offensive answer about Lebanese-Australians; imprisoned whistleblower David McBride’s missing media moment, and the headline about Israeli settlers that got wilder each time it was republished.
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Loving my Saturday morning catch up @janfran.bsky.social with my new T @ettemedia.bsky.social
Appreciating the no bull shit coverage of the horrible and ridiculous happenings across the globe.
We love this!
Here’s 10 journalist Amelia Brace fact-checking Pauline Hanson’s claim that it cost $300M to pursue a case against accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith. When Hanson made the claim on Sky News, she was left unchallenged.
Not even naming Lebanon or Israel in the headline is diabolical at this point.
At least 260 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to the CPJ, and a further 14 in Lebanon as per the UN.
They're not just numbers — they were someone's whole world.
The CPJ has called for international authorities to investigate each killing as a war crime.
Israel’s bombardment killed more than 250 Lebanese people and injured at least 1,000 last night. “Humanitarian crisis” is not how we’d describe the mass bombing of civilians of a sovereign nation.
You may have seen some reporting that the multicultural suburb of Lakemba has 1300 NDIS providers — one for every 13 residents. This is being spruiked as a case of “migration fraud.” There’s one minor issue - that figure is off by *checks notes* 8000%. youtube.com/shorts/lOOBx...
This week, Jan and Antoinette expose the false narrative that Lakemba is a hotbed of systemic NDIS fraud. Plus, we discuss why why free-to-air TV networks and certain newspapers are not happy with Albanese's gambling ad reforms, and Donald Trump's unhinged social media posts. youtu.be/1Ia3ZaJRzr8
Now that Ben-Roberts Smith has been arrested for war crimes, do ya reckon Seven West Media boss Kerry Stokes will bankroll his legal fees like he did when the disgraced solider was suing journalists for revealing his war crimes?
We’re finally getting to a point where news outlets are calling Israel’s invasion of Lebanon what it is. But in the weeks prior (and even now, since some of these phrases were spotted just this week), media went out of its way to avoid calling a spade a spade.
We Used To Be Journos has been shortlisted in not ONE but TWO categories at the very first Australian Audio Awards. We wish the other finalists only a little bit of luck. 😜
The Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman gave a speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday and made some wild claims about the killing of journalists which we can’t quite let go to the keeper.
In this week's episode, Jan and Antoinette push back against blatant hasbara, dive into the Atlas Network and claims of climate disinformation, and applause the writer's festival that stood its ground under pressure to disinvite a Palestinian author. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has hit a record high primary vote in the South Australian election. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Watch the full episode of We Used To Be Journos: youtu.be/lKxJWNBgSAU
The CPJ has called for “an investigation into the apparent targeting” of British correspondent Steve Sweeney and Lebanese camera operator Ali Rida Sbeity, who were injured when an Israeli missile nearly struck them.
Only the day before, Israeli strikes killed a Lebanese journalist in Beirut.
22 years after The Kyle and Jackie O Show started, ACMA has issued rules that can suspend or cancel their show for breaches of the Commercial Radio Code of Practice. Except, the regulations don't apply because the show's already been axed and Kyle's contract terminated. Better late than never?
In this episode,we examine the devastating attacks on Lebanon, Louis Theroux’s Netflix manosphere doco, the rumour mill around Netanyahu (including the six-finger theory) and ACMA's long-overdue move against Kyle Sandilands. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
As Israel's “ground campaign” expands both Jan and Antoinette reflect on what it’s been like watching their Old Country destroyed from afar.
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UK's High Court ruled in favour of independent journalist Owen Jones in a defamation case brought by Raffi Berg, BBC news online's Middle East editor, over an article in which Jones alleged that Berg fostered a culture of 'systemic Israeli propaganda'. BBC is yet to report on this development.
Queensland says it's tough on hate speech and arrests an 18-year-old student for wearing a shirt that says "from the river, to the sea." Meanwhile the state's One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson, who said there are no "good" Muslims, remains unscathed and even gets a boost in polling.
PSA: We’ll be recording a *live* episode of We Used to Be Journos at the Newcastle Writers Festival on Sunday 29 March.
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A QLD man says he was made to take off his anti-genocide shirt or wear it backwards because it would cause offence. This is off the back of laws passed in QLD, banning the phrases “From the river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada.” Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
You asked, we answered! Introducing OnlyFran (🥵), an additional episode that will go live in the We Used To Be Journos feed every Saturday. First episode drops tomorrow!
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Trivialising people being blown up, during a time when Arabs have been blown up daily for at least the past 2.5 years, is how the media helps normalise the killing of Arabs.
Behind every headline cheering on the violence there are human beings who pay the steepest of prices for it,
Jan Fran and Antoinette look at the Australian media’s coverage of the U.S and Israeli attack on Iran and show how a narrative gets set in the first 24-48 hours.
