Media Watch

ABC TV

Show • 83 episodes

Media Watch is Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment, screening on ABC TV on Monday at 9.15 pm. Turns a critical eye on the media in general and journalism in particular

Much room for mushrooms; Fries with that

Jul 14

Advertiser’s tabloid turn; Under the bonnet; Lecturing the point

Jul 7

Lattouf wins; Feeding time

Jun 30

Gone nuclear; Hot pursuit; Mokbel payday

Jun 23

Press safety; Arms advocate; Conflict Class

Jun 16

Thumb war; Chagrined charities; Injustice ignored

Jun 9

I Wake Up in Dubai; Jumping the gun; Palestine pulled

Jun 2

It’s complicated; Lights out; AI book list

May 26

Defamation discharge, Furry fever; Bear baiting

May 19

Holy smoke; Destination unknown; Gone west

May 12

Election surprise; DNA discoveries; Dog days

May 5

Poll position; ABC Radio chair-bound

Apr 28

Billionaire gives back; Reins of power

Apr 14

Miracle sports water; Travel insurance tales; Radio rebels rebuked

Apr 7

Influencers take Canberra; Star journo’s secret recording; There’s a bear in there

Mar 31

Plant Closure Questions; Twiggy’s Meta Fight; Seven’s Robot Fashionistas

Mar 24

Caravan fizzer; Clive’s back!; Punter or player

Mar 17

Alfred's media moment; Housing number questions; Trump’s press pals

Mar 10

Marty Sheargold’s red card; The Australian's unreliable source; Steve Price investigates

Mar 3

‘Jack The Ripper’ amnesia; Seven boosts Basil; Murdoch family drama

Feb 24

Sam Newman’s Nazi boost; Daily Tele’s stunt backfires; Seven’s horoscope horror

Feb 17

Trump 2.0 media circus; ABC’s ‘Antoinette issue’; Nine's beach house porkies.

Feb 10

Asylum visa error; Nine ditches Darwin news; Planet spin-off pushes merch.

Feb 3

Paul Barry farewell

Dec 2, 2024

Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok ban!; Macca and Dick; ABC Radio Upheaval.

Nov 25, 2024

Amsterdam riots; 2GB spears and fears; Coked up ACT.

Nov 18, 2024

Trump’s triumph; Where is the outrage?; ACMA's KIIS.

Nov 11, 2024

US showdown

Nov 4, 2024

Billionaire Blunder; Israel strike kills 3 reporters; No, Harvey, No!

Oct 28, 2024

Cassie’s big sell; Reporting from Lebanon; Royal Bait.

Oct 21, 2024

Hurricane Heroics; Gaza media bloodshed; EV backfire; John Laws quits again.

Oct 14, 2024

Deadly war for journalists; Seven’s Rainmaker; Sky News Election Lie.

Oct 7, 2024

Supermarket rip-offs; Some Help from Tony; Al Fayed exposed; Deadly clickbait.

Sep 30, 2024

ABC accused of audio no-no; Ghost papers haunt regional towns; Murdoch “Succession”.

Sep 23, 2024

Ten’s tasteless “exclusive”; Overdose of inaccuracy; Pet-eating debunked; Nine’s unease as Sneesby exits.

Sep 16, 2024

Taking the piss; Media’s gambling addiction; Grenfell fire culture war; Vale Tim Bowden.

Sep 9, 2024

Fordham breach; Barrier Reef: thriving or dying?; Gina says.

Sep 2, 2024

Harry ‘doomsayer’ Dent; ABC MD quits; Political influencers.

Aug 26, 2024

Gaza visa fight; Media mogul Musk; ‘White powder’ whispers; Promo whoops.

Aug 19, 2024

Olympic blow; Media terror rhetoric; Nuclear censorship; Autism lasers.

Aug 12, 2024

Fake news sparks riots; Wrong Flag; Smut FM.

Aug 5, 2024

Gold medal junkets; Attacking Kamala Harris; Woodside PR.

Jul 29, 2024

Trump & Murdoch; Anti-EV campaign; Amazon PR.

Jul 22, 2024

Trump shot at; Biden warnings; Hottest crim; Seven’s satire and stars.

Jul 15, 2024

The framing of Senator Payman; Free-to-air ‘death spiral’; Tory bloodbath.

Jul 8, 2024

Dutton Snapchat scandal; Assange - guilty but free; Biden horror.

Jul 1, 2024

Dutton’s nuclear play; AFL kiss ‘outrage’; Cheng Lei bullied.

Jun 24, 2024

Roxy’s giveaway embarrassment; Far-right love; Oz’s Hitler smear; ‘Porn hooked’ tribe.

Jun 17, 2024

Costello’s fall; Origin head knock; Radio replay.

Jun 10, 2024

Guilty Trump fallout; Criminal Court attacks; Aunty’s Tingle tangle.

Jun 3, 2024

Terror in the skies; Albo’s ‘new’ jet; Nuclear Fantasy; Soggy Sunak.

May 27, 2024

Albo’s eviction notice; Whistleblower jailed; Nine’s cruise freebie.

May 20, 2024

Furry fury; AI unmasked; AFR v Stokes; Sunrise vax scare

May 13, 2024

Not Russian spies; ‘Migration Watch’ unmasked; Rolling TV Coverage.

May 6, 2024

Musk the villain; Trump’s ‘catch & kill’; AI news rip-off

Apr 29, 2024

Lehrmann fallout; Hugh Grant v Murdoch; Snowtown freedom?

Apr 22, 2024

Bondi Junction attack; ‘Lehrmann raped Higgins’; Brumbies & the ABC

Apr 15, 2024

Coke for comment; Gaza Aid Workers; News Gamification.

Apr 8, 2024

Rudd Trumped; Spotlight on Auerbach; ABC’s AFL rewind.

Mar 25, 2024

Roxy’s Giveaway; ABC-Lattouf case; Bronwyn sorry, again.

Mar 18, 2024

NRL’s Vegas Dazzle; Meta Media ‘War’; Four Corners ‘Hit job’.

Mar 11, 2024

Rolfe’s media ‘friend’; Gut balloon; Alleged kidnapping; Sky News kayfabe.

Mar 4, 2024

Taylor Mania; Navalny’s death; Buyback balls-up; Correcting The Australian.

Feb 26, 2024

Barnaby’s fall; Humanising war victims; Seven ignores Gap.

Feb 19, 2024

Biden's 'poor memory'; Tucker & Putin; Bolt v Police; G-string g-up.

Feb 12, 2024

PM’s breach of faith; ABC, Lattouf & lobbyists; Cricket’s invisible winner; AI sexism.

Feb 5, 2024

Seven’s Lehrmann deal; Amazon’s media blitz; From India with love.

Dec 4, 2023

Demonised detainees; ABC “betrayal’; Deepfake scams.

Nov 27, 2023

Studio 10 axed; Hamas hospital HQ; Dan Andrews golf ban.

Nov 20, 2023

Optus Fail; Whales & windfarms; Microsoft’s murder poll.

Nov 13, 2023

Gaza War – 4 weeks on

Nov 6, 2023

‘High-profile man’ named; Billionaire Pratt; Putin’s cardiac arrest; Ronaldo’s 99 lashes.

Oct 30, 2023

Fog of War

Oct 23, 2023

Israel-Hamas war; No to Voice; ABC defames commando.

Oct 16, 2023

ABC cops pressure; Nine’s Block concerns; Kelly v academics.

Oct 9, 2023

Dan departs; Pezzullo exposed; GB News trouble.

Oct 2, 2023

Murdoch Succession; Russell Brand reckoning; Karl’s Uni failure.

Sep 25, 2023

Fight over Voice

Sep 18, 2023

Shock Front Page; A Current Affair Confessions; Watchdog slaps OZ; Qantas Rejoyce.

Sep 11, 2023

Qantas crisis; Climate activists gagged; BBC wrong Guy.

Sep 4, 2023

The truth is out there; Climate retraction; Mushroom mystery; Ticks and crosses.

Aug 28, 2023

Nine’s terror scare; Sky hosts at war; Lehrmann’s $6 million; AFR gotcha fails

Aug 21, 2023

Marvelous Matildas; X kills Twitter; Kyle’s indecency obsession; No ordinary renter.

Aug 14, 2023

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