Shout-Out to Linton Besser
We were wondering how Linton Besser would go when he took over from Paul Barry as the host of Media Watch at the beginning of last year. Paul Barry had...
More women’s sport, more woeful ABC reportage
Well said, AF4WR! We’d just like to point out a few more things that are wrong with this little item: Conflation of transgender with DSDs (differences/disorders of sexual development): Reporter...
Twisting in the Wind on Telfer
We have remarked before about ABC's silence on the harms of gender treatments and how this silence shows a clear failure to meet its own performance guidelines. Firstly, we here...
ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM
Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia...
Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC
We've spoken about Josh Szeps before. Back in 2022, his broadcast on Radio National was one of several fractures that Women's Cooee saw developing at the ABC. Since then Josh...
Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it
(Not in words though …) Over the last couple of weeks there’s been a new rush of experts telling the ABC what it ought to do to get its audience...
They’re a downer
‘They’ as a singular pronoun for an identified person? Aunty, it’s not going to happen; and trying to make it happen just makes your journos look incompetent – and exasperates...
The Vocabulary of Misogyny
The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill. Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny...
AND THE WINNER IS …
’Twas a hotly contested competition, as Vera’s and Emma’s goggleboxing demonstrates, but in the end it’s sports journo Samantha Lewis (‘she/they’) who takes gold for Worst ABC Piece on the...
Paris Goggleboxing: News at 7
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics. Wednesday 7th August ABC TV News NSW 7 pm Jeremy Fernandez,...