Beating the climate change drum

The ABC launched its new opinion site The Drum/Unleashed on Monday. It was interesting that one of the very first articles was a bit of climate change denial by Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook University. I felt a little disappointed that the ABC had chosen to give the climate change denialists more space [...]

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The rise of the trollumnist

I first came across the word “trollumnist” in this article from New Matilda. I tweeted about it and also mentioned it in an e-mail to Dan Bloom. Dan added the word to the Urban Dictionary (although misspelt as “trollumist”). Crikey mentioned it on their Pure Poison blog. Range also mentioned the word on his blog. [...]

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Cars are the problem not bikes

Miranda Devine published an incendiary opinion piece attacking cyclists in the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday. It was in response to an incident involving a cyclist riding a busway. In that incident the cyclist may have been in the wrong, but she used it as a starting to point to launch an all out war [...]

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The power of Twitter

While a large percentage of tweets on Twitter might be inconsequential garbage, the power of Twitter should not be underestimated. The tweet, shown in a screenshot above, showed that in the age of the internet social media has the power to challenge the clout of corporations. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s tweet links to an article [...]

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“Balanced” reporting is biased

I often think society is overly obsessed with bias in the media. Or perhaps to put it in another way it rails at one kind of bias and ignores another. First, there can really be no such thing as an entirely objective reporting, or if there was it would be too bland and uninformative. Second, [...]

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