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Another excellent episode. Thanks @janfran.bsky.social @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social
Best listen of the week.
Best listen of the week.
ABC’s social media gag order, Sky News’ war criminal chit-chat + Gina Rinehart’s net zero ideology spruiked
Podcast Episode · We Used to be Journos · 26/08/2025 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Another excellent episode. Thanks @janfran.bsky.social @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social
Best listen of the week.
Best listen of the week.
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@antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and @janfran.bsky.social are becoming one of my favourite parts of Wednesdays with “We Used to be Journos”
August 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and @janfran.bsky.social are becoming one of my favourite parts of Wednesdays with “We Used to be Journos”
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Listening to another cracker from @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and thought of these guys when they proposed a PR push for the media. Cheers!
a computer screen displays a video of new york city ghostbusters 1984
ALT: a computer screen displays a video of new york city ghostbusters 1984
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August 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Listening to another cracker from @janfran.bsky.social and @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and thought of these guys when they proposed a PR push for the media. Cheers!
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A shoutout on this Friday to @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and @janfran.bsky.social for their work on Ette Media the last few weeks,
Their YouTube show is worth a watch
Their YouTube show is worth a watch
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A shoutout on this Friday to @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social and @janfran.bsky.social for their work on Ette Media the last few weeks,
Their YouTube show is worth a watch
Their YouTube show is worth a watch
Imagine thinking that THAT'S what "went wrong with Lattouf". A very cool answer from JS too. What even is this entire exchange?? Fucken hell.
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Imagine thinking that THAT'S what "went wrong with Lattouf". A very cool answer from JS too. What even is this entire exchange?? Fucken hell.
What the heck is happening at Bendigo Writer's Festival???
NEW: More than half a dozen prominent authors have pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival after being told to sign a code of conduct that would inhibit criticism of Israel.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship'
Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel
www.deepcutnews.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What the heck is happening at Bendigo Writer's Festival???
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Respect to Crikey for being the only place willing to cover the transformation in Australian media happening right now. No other outlet’s media reporters seem to think it’s interesting to their readers - couldn’t imagine why. www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/07/g...
'It is completely incongruous': How the media’s coverage of Gaza has sent reporters independent
An increasing number of reporters are launching independent ventures as audiences express distrust in the big newsrooms.
www.crikey.com.au
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Respect to Crikey for being the only place willing to cover the transformation in Australian media happening right now. No other outlet’s media reporters seem to think it’s interesting to their readers - couldn’t imagine why. www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/07/g...
Do I know anyone who uses Ghost as a subscription platform???
June 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Do I know anyone who uses Ghost as a subscription platform???
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We’re going independent.
@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and I have a new podcast and newsletter covering the crisis in media — and how that’s changing everything else.
Check it out, our first episode is out today and the newsletter is live.
www.lamestream.com.au
@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and I have a new podcast and newsletter covering the crisis in media — and how that’s changing everything else.
Check it out, our first episode is out today and the newsletter is live.
www.lamestream.com.au
Lamestream
A podcast and newsletter covering the crisis in media.
www.lamestream.com.au
April 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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It's true. It is so good.
Absolutely loving @janfran.bsky.social Conspiracy? About the Waterfront Dispute. Fascinating. There’s 2/6 episodes up on the ABC Listen app. Can’t wait for the rest. It’s so good.
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It's true. It is so good.
Quick Q - How many ABC community forums in Bankstown will it take to fix this?
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Quick Q - How many ABC community forums in Bankstown will it take to fix this?
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Yeah, I guess ethnic cleansing is a massive job.
February 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Yeah, I guess ethnic cleansing is a massive job.
Who'd have thought.
NEW: ABC staff furious over broadcaster’s legal position on ‘race’
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
ABC staff furious over broadcaster’s legal position on ‘race’
Around 250 employees at the public broadcaster have passed a resolution demanding explicit acceptance from ABC management that it will not require proof it is possible to be racist to a Lebanese, Arab...
www.smh.com.au
February 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Who'd have thought.
everything continues to be normal and fine.
February 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
everything continues to be normal and fine.
Look ma, I'm finally white.
Opinion | "My Asian, African and Aboriginal ABC colleagues are now on notice: complain about something to do with your race and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility the ABC will ask you to prove you have a race in the first place." @janfran.bsky.social
Read it: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/04/a...
Read it: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/04/a...
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Look ma, I'm finally white.
"In relation to the claim of racial discrimination. The ABC says that this claim must fail because Ms Lattouf has not proven there is a Lebanese, Arab or Middle Eastern race." Pls hold while I think about this statement for the next 12 to 24 years.
February 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"In relation to the claim of racial discrimination. The ABC says that this claim must fail because Ms Lattouf has not proven there is a Lebanese, Arab or Middle Eastern race." Pls hold while I think about this statement for the next 12 to 24 years.
So not to hate because I clicked, but why is there a whole article in the Guardian based entirely off one Instagram post from Paris Jackson?
January 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So not to hate because I clicked, but why is there a whole article in the Guardian based entirely off one Instagram post from Paris Jackson?
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News.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
December 17, 2024 at 8:56 PM
News.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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Leaving aside more overt incidents, it seems to me the indifference in some quarters of Australian media, politics and society to the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Gaza might be part of the Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism the Oz says has “rarely shown its head”
Christ. Editorial in the Australian today.
December 9, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Or should I say made it untenable for her to stay Lord have even more mercy!
And to think the ABC just let Nour walk outta that building Lord have mercy.
Nour Haydar’s lecture is vital listening for all Australian journalists www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
December 9, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Or should I say made it untenable for her to stay Lord have even more mercy!
And to think the ABC just let Nour walk outta that building Lord have mercy.
Nour Haydar’s lecture is vital listening for all Australian journalists www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Who gets to shape the story? Reporting on the conflict in the Middle East — with The Guardian’s Nour Haydar - ABC listen
There's been a move by Australian newsrooms to foster and champion the diversity of their staff. But when it comes to covering the conflict between Israelis & Palestinians, and the war in Gaza, does t...
www.abc.net.au
December 9, 2024 at 9:57 PM
And to think the ABC just let Nour walk outta that building Lord have mercy.
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Nour Haydar’s lecture is vital listening for all Australian journalists www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Who gets to shape the story? Reporting on the conflict in the Middle East — with The Guardian’s Nour Haydar - ABC listen
There's been a move by Australian newsrooms to foster and champion the diversity of their staff. But when it comes to covering the conflict between Israelis & Palestinians, and the war in Gaza, does t...
www.abc.net.au
December 9, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Nour Haydar’s lecture is vital listening for all Australian journalists www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Look, I have been thinking this.
Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
theonion.com/somebody-sho...
theonion.com/somebody-sho...
December 9, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Look, I have been thinking this.
This is the man who said it was a mistake to bring Lebanese people to Australia.
December 9, 2024 at 12:53 AM
This is the man who said it was a mistake to bring Lebanese people to Australia.