Media Watch

Season 2021

Media Watch is Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment, screening on ABC TV.

Where to Watch Media Watch • Season 2021

44 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1How the ABC stuffed up Australia Day, Australia's rudest columnist gets zapped and inspiring stories of weight loss, but reader beware.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing awarded $590,000 in a defamation case against the ABC and Nine over a 2017 Four Corners story. Facebook and Google look for compromise over the news media bargaining code. Federal MP Craig Kelly’s COVID-19 misinformation and the friendly media who spread his message.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Mums cancelled?; Tabloid treatment; Fox News defamation.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Vaccine pitch; Facebook’s blackout; Bolt’s Cooked complaint.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5Facebook pay; Deflect and reject.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Christian Porter has denied an allegation, outlined in an anonymous letter, that he raped a woman in 1988. Has the media coverage been reckless or reasonable? Is it trial by media? Would an inquiry throw light on what happened? A Media Watch special.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7Royal ‘bombshell’; Lawless John Laws; Journalist F; Copyright Affair; Porter sues ABC.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8Porter v ABC; Sexy snaps; Racist comment; Demon clickbait.
  • Episode 9
    E9
    Episode 9Triple M shockers; Jeremy Cordeaux axed; ACA - not the full story; Morrow’s mistake.
  • Episode 10
    E10
    Episode 10Vaccine scaremongering; Mal’s discontent; Holy Aunty!; Terrorist propaganda.
  • Episode 11
    E11
    Episode 11Twerked off; Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine; Fairy bread fake; Reporters under fire.
  • Episode 12
    E12
    Episode 12Royal twaddle; Latham's playbook; The housing game.
  • Episode 13
    E13
    Episode 13Secret prince?; India’s COVID censorship; NY Post lie; Farewell Phil.
  • Episode 14
    E14
    Episode 14India jail threat; Telegraph mistake; Health inquiry ignored; Motherly mistake.
  • Episode 15
    E15
    Episode 15COVID patient named; China’s ‘Virus Warfare’; Gaza media targeted; V’landys v ABC.
  • Episode 16
    E16
    Episode 16COVID nonsense; Herald Sun says No; Collaery’s secret trial; BBC Diana scandal.
  • Episode 17
    E17
    Episode 17Porter ABC settlement; Greg hunted; Regional news shutdown; AFL copy and paste; McLachlan v ABC.
  • Episode 18
    E18
    Episode 18ABC Porter defence; ABC QAnon; Jones’ old tricks; Mice march?
  • Episode 19
    E19
    Episode 19War hero trial; Harvey Norman mystery; Palmer's dangerous ads; Toobin's return.
  • Episode 20
    E20
    Episode 20friendlyjordies arrest; Dark Emu debate; Tackling mistruths; Ronaldo Coke fizzer.
  • Episode 21
    E21
    Episode 21COVID shutdown; Chinese defector?; China media strike; WHO booze ban.
  • Episode 22
    E22
    Episode 22Vaccine beat-ups; COVID driver; Local news cuts.
  • Episode 23
    E23
    Episode 23Pfizer spin; UNESCO, the reef & China; Shock jock coup; Choc top media.
  • Episode 24
    E24
    Episode 24Hopkins cancelled; Dangerous and misleading; Albo’s secret trip.
  • Episode 25
    E25
    Episode 25Palaszczuk’s Olympic storm; ScoMo’s ‘sorry’; Who’s interview?; Anti-sex Olympics.
  • Episode 26
    E26
    Episode 26Olympic hurdles; Craig Kelly falsehoods; Greyhound mystery.
  • Episode 27
    E27
    Episode 27Bol’s ‘refugee camp’; Vax push; List of shame; Mafia misfire (with guest host Jeremy Fernandez)
  • Episode 28
    E28
    Episode 28Costly tweet; Clive's campaign; Q+A 'code red'; Paramount spruik. Guest host Janine Perrett brings you a fearless critique of the week's journalism.
  • Episode 29
    E29
    Episode 29Taliban media; COVID curfew; Pub COVID shamed; Page 3 girls; Tabloid Tinder trick. Presented by guest host Janine Perrett.
  • Episode 30
    E30
    Episode 30Wrong explosion; ABC Ghost Train review; Brands v brands. Presented by Paul Barry.
  • Episode 31
    E31
    Episode 31COVID 'actors'; The Australian's transgender coverage; Hadley's apology; Sky's fake guest?
  • Episode 32
    E32
    Episode 32Climate conversion?; Seven's red card; IPA data flawed; Unmasked.
  • Episode 33
    E33
    Episode 33Sub shock; Markle-fest; Piers goes global; Stefanovic storm-off.
  • Episode 34
    E34
    Episode 34Protesters v reporters; Unravel Juanita; ABC racism doco.
  • Episode 35
    E35
    Episode 35Gladys out; Jessica and Pauline; Wrong driver; Brexit Britain. Presented by Paul Barry.
  • Episode 36
    E36
    Episode 36Gabby Petito obsession; 'Coward's palace'; Reignite Aunty; Victory for justice.
  • Episode 37
    E37
    Episode 37News Corp's dramatic U-turn over climate policy. Critics call its Mission Zero campaign 'greenwashing' but we argue it is a significant shift for Australia's largest media company. A Media Watch special report.
  • Episode 38
    E38
    Episode 38Nat zero; Science abuse; Poverty scorn; Brian Laundrie sleuths.
  • Episode 39
    E39
    Episode 39Selling net-zero; ABC opinion or fact?; Clarke's spin.
  • Episode 40
    E40
    Episode 40Cleo coverage; Jones' Skyfall; Seven's acne 'cure'.
  • Episode 41
    E41
    Episode 41ScoMo campaign; Sex-hypocrisy; Who mag fibs.
  • Episode 42
    E42
    Episode 42For seven years, police and media have pursued different theories and suspects, but no one has ever been charged over William Tyrrell's disappearance. With police conducting a new search and identifying a new person of interest, we look at how the media has covered the case and what lessons have been learnt.
  • Episode 43
    E43
    Episode 43Paine's downfall; Alzheimer's 'breakthroughs'; Adele drama.
  • Episode 44
    E44
    Episode 44Jenkins review; November Platoon; Seven's McAd; Credlin - Apology of the Year.

 

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