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,...
Paris Goggleboxing: ABC Offsiders
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics. Offsiders - Sunday 4th August Kelli Underwood, presenter, to guest reporter...
If Vera were the ABC Ombudsman
If Vera Figner were the ABC Ombudsman, the outcome would’ve been very different for a complaint about an online article ABC News published on 16 April. Said article is kind-of...
Leaky bathroom more newsworthy than gender trouble
Good on you, Women Speak Tasmania! This is what we like to see: alert ABC News listeners/viewers/readers who recognise censorship and poor judgment when they see it. Last month, an...
Under the Carpet
When, back in August 2022, Media Watch blasted the ABC for ignoring the Tavistock dramas in the UK, senior ABC journo Julia Holman commented that she’d ‘rather hear about what’s...
One of these things is not like the others …
It looks like whoever runs the ABC News webpage just wasn’t paying attention when they watched Sesame Street on the ABC as a four-year-old. Otherwise, they would’ve picked up that...
Tampons: ABC News ignores the bleedin’ obvious
Who uses tampons? Women. What word doesn’t appear in this 1,808-word on-line ABC News article about tampons? ‘Women.’ Instead the journo, one Paige Cockburn, adopts a chatty tone – unusual...