About this season
An Australian media analysis television program currently focusing on critiquing the Australian media.
Episodes (44)
1. Episode 1
Aired 6 February 2017 • 15 min
In the Alice in Wonderland world of fake news and alternative facts, what can the media do in search for the truth?
2. Episode 2
Aired 13 February 2017 • 15 min
Melania Trump v Daily Mail; The Daily Mail and gang misappropriation; The Phantom of the Internet rebooted; How Good Game ran out of lives; Another inappropriate rant by Ross
3. Episode 3
Aired 20 February 2017 • 15 min
Not just fake news but no news; Sex, lies and injunctions; Court copy cats caught out; James Hird and the 'female friend'
4. Episode 4
Aired 27 February 2017 • 15 min
Coke Fizzer. Coke closes its Adelaide bottling plant; A Current Affair's life changing ADHD treatment - that doesn't work; Keysar Trad flies under the ABC radar; A new front in Trump’s media war
5. Episode 5
Aired 6 March 2017 • 15 min
The new Italian Astronaut; Travel tales too good to be true?; Peter Dutton, next Liberal leader? And Karl coverage overload
6. Episode 6
Aired 13 March 2017 • 15 min
Exclusive interview or airport ambush?; Controversial claims get the soft treatment; Punchbowl story missing in action; Satirical protest taken seriously; BBC interview interrupted
7. Episode 7
Aired 20 March 2017 • 15 min
Weatherill v Frydenberg showdown; Clean and green or toxic and deadly?; Singo making Gosford great again, with a little help from his friends and Sky News civil war
8. Episode 8
Aired 27 March 2017 • 15 min
Paparazzi, privacy and the Press Council; Great Barrier grief missing from The Australian; Two cities, one prize on Nova stations and Exclusive: Darren Davidson predictions.
9. Episode 9
Aired 3 April 2017 • 15 min
Latham lessons not learnt; Media love a miracle; First on Nine five years late and Cyclone Debbie coverage
10. Episode 10
Aired 10 April 2017 • 15 min
What lies beneath; Media war over Syria; Internal war at News Corp and Red faces over blushing bride story
11. Episode 11
Aired 24 April 2017 • 15 min
Close call; Going for gold; Putin critics pay with lives and Prime time PR puff
12. Episode 12
Aired 1 May 2017 • 15 min
Anzac Day outrage; News sites spinning Reddit rubbish; What next for Channel 10? And Paul Antonopoulos forced out
13. Episode 13
Aired 8 May 2017 • 15 min
Royal rumour runs rife; Fairfax cuts hit hard and 100 days of discord
14. Episode 14
Aired 15 May 2017 • 15 min
Seven and Nine both first with the news; BrickX stories lack scrutiny; The necklace that stole the story; Jobs and growth but not for Fairfax and Mark Colvin 1952 – 2017
15. Episode 15
Aired 22 May 2017 • 15 min
Snot right: bogus boogers beat-up; ‘Fake’ Sheikh of shock; Not so new at The Australian; Good Crinkling News
16. Episode 16
Aired 29 May 2017 • 15 min
The Schapelle Corby media circus; The column that really bombed; Alan Jones, pick and stick
17. Episode 17
Aired 5 June 2017 • 15 min
Minor voice given a megaphone; Daily Mail, how low can you go?; Australian Press Council v News Corp; Snakes in a car again
18. Episode 18
Aired 12 June 2017 • 15 min
Corby keeps the media guessing; Adani still not a done deal; High flying plans don’t add up; Breitbart loses its bite
19. Episode 19
Aired 19 June 2017 • 15 min
No loss of shock jock energy; Rebel with a cause to celebrate; Sky's the limit for Channel Ten
20. Episode 20
Aired 26 June 2017 • 15 min
Lotto winners and lazy journalism; Scoring points from Grenfell fire ; 'Apex gang' spotted in Newcastle; What's old is new on Sunday Night
21. Episode 21
Aired 3 July 2017 • 15 min
Paul Murray's spectacular Sky dummy spit; The Australian's cock-up trifecta; Roxy Jacenko cashing in on media obsession; The slow death of community television; Donald Trump's new fake media smackdown
22. Episode 22
Aired 10 July 2017 • 15 min
State of play, news media versus the digital giants Amid a Senate inquiry, a Media Watch special on how Facebook and Google have damaged and might save journalism
23. Episode 23
Aired 17 July 2017 • 15 min
Iceberg ahoy!; Amazon is coming; Non apology of the week from the Daily Telegraph; TV news turns off the Top End; International journalism award axed
24. Episode 24
Aired 24 July 2017 • 15 min
Rainbow stars in Greens exit; An unholy row; Exploiting tragedy for column inches; Ray's Scomo spray
25. Episode 25
Aired 31 July 2017 • 15 min
The Pell show comes to town; Super spruikers; Dual citizenship duel; Flying dry
26. Episode 26
Aired 7 August 2017 • 15 min
Reporting on terror raids; Abbott speaks and media repeats; Goodbye to a veteran
27. Episode 27
Aired 14 August 2017 • 15 min
Teflon John and his media mates; Same Sex marriage frustration; Nightline kills the radio star; Memo to Mitch Fifield
28. Episode 28
Aired 21 August 2017 • 15 min
Media reform battles on; Jumping the gun on a medical breakthrough; Flash mob to cash in; More perils of live TV
29. Episode 29
Aired 28 August 2017 • 15 min
A monumental beat up; Same-Sex Campaign; Campaign clanger; Misplaced map outrage
30. Episode 30
Aired 4 September 2017 • 15 min
The missing flood story; Reheating Christmas carols outrage; Media marriage friction; Today starts a war
31. Episode 31
Aired 11 September 2017 • 15 min
Spot the Tassie Tiger; A matter of trust; Too much publicity is never enough; A picture tells the wrong story
32. Episode 32
Aired 18 September 2017 • 15 min
Rebel gets the last laugh; The power of Kmart mums; Media reforms gets green light; Malley's media adventure
33. Episode 33
Aired 25 September 2017 • 15 min
Red faces over Roberts reversal; Spruiking supplements; Spot the sponsored content; TV tantrums
34. Episode 34
Aired 2 October 2017 • 15 min
Same Love stoush; Seven has more PR woes; Today loves Australia, for a fee
35. Episode 35
Aired 9 October 2017 • 15 min
Las Vegas massacre drives fake news; ABC defends correspondent from Federal MP's attack ads; Northern Star HPV headline wrong
36. Episode 36
Aired 16 October 2017 • 15 min
The politics of Weinstein; Silencing Ray's spray; Media stays mum; Ipswich or Karachi?
37. Episode 37
Aired 23 October 2017 • 15 min
Melania body double bubble; Lisa Walks; Junketing journalists; Christmas in Macau
38. Episode 38
Aired 30 October 2017 • 15 min
Citizenship Seven coverage; Raids, leaks and sources; Confessions of a homegrown 'terrorist'; Bushie's irony alert backfires
39. Episode 39
Aired 6 November 2017 • 15 min
Citizenship saga bites troubled Turnbull; Media missing on Manus; Deadly treadlies; Facebook fesses up
40. Episode 40
Aired 13 November 2017 • 15 min
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41. Episode 41
Aired 20 November 2017 • 15 min
Channel Ten's disservice to the west; The Latham vs Faruqi showdown; All aboard the election bus; Richo bemused by the Paradise Papers
42. Episode 42
Aired 27 November 2017 • 15 min
QLD Election Coverage; Don Burke allegations; John-Michael Howson's tirade; Karl's 'gotcha' fail
43. Episode 43
Aired 4 December 2017 • 15 min
The rush to convict Geoffrey Rush; The sting that stung; Perth to Baku; Lateline signs off
44. Episode 44
Aired 11 December 2017 • 15 min
A costly Rush?; Stirring up Milo fever; Superstorm hype runs out of puff; Media Watch – 2017 highlights