A photo of a skeletal child cradled in its mothers arms finally brings home the horror of mass starvation in Gaza and the tide of media opinion turns against Israel.Denis Muller says journalists are discarding an old taboo and using the word "genocide" to describe the mass starvation Israel denies is happening.Plus the big global news organisations sign a joint statement warning the journalists and photographers telling this story of man made famine and brutality will themselves soon die from starvation if aid doesn't come quickly. And first there was Fox News .. now the United States looks like getting another Trump mouthpiece news network as presidential ally and the world's second richest man Larry Ellison buys Paramount, parent company of CBS. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 21 - Inconvenient Truths
Reporting on a massacre - Israel mows down dozens of starving Palestinians trying to get food at aid hubs. Dr. Denis Muller says only running IDF talking points while covering these atrocities is not journalism, and sets out the principles reporters should be keeping in mind. Plus the growing calls for anti semitism envoy Jillian Segal to be sacked after it was revealed her husband donated $50,000 to a hate group called Advance which runs anti Palestinian narratives ..And two tribes go to war .. An enraged Donald Trump sues the media mogul who helped get him into the White House. Rupert Murdoch's being accused of libel after his paper The Wall Street Journal reported details of a lewd birthday greeting Trump allegedly wrote to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Trauma and Journalism with Cait McMahon
Trauma and journalism live side-by-side.Journalists often find themselves having to interview people who have been through a traumatic experience because traumatizing events are often matters of serious public interest.That’s because they raise questions of public safety and, sometimes, questions about causation and about the adequacy of the official response.The people who lived through these experiences are important witnesses because they can give first-hand accounts of what happened.How media crews treat these people can affect the traumatized person’s psychological welfare.But exposure to traumatized people and to the events that caused their trauma can also have a psychological effect on the journalists, camera crew and photographers who cover these stories.So there are two sides to this issue:How media crews treat the traumatized people they cover, and how covering these events affects the media crews.Dr Cait McMahon, OAM, is a psychologist who was the founding managing director of the Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism, Asia-Pacific, from its inception in 2003 until her retirement in 2021.In 2016 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her work with journalists and trauma.This special episode is the first of a new series of Deep-Dive conversations, released alongside the weekly Truth, Lies and Media Podcast episodes. Join us each Wednesday for chats with Nicole and Denis, and keep an eye on this RSS feed for future deep dive episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 20 - Authoritarian Overreach
Anti-semitism envoy or propagandist?Jillian Segal puts those favourite whipping boys the ABC, SBS, universities and the arts straight into the firing line by suggesting they be stripped of funding if they fail to address anti semitism - but cannot identify any smoking gun failings to would justify such draconian action.Denis Muller has condemned the sweeping review as an authoritarian overreach which should be pulped immediately.Plus .. the Image Consultants go to town in the remaking of Sussan Ley. Are this weeks media characterisations of her as a plucky gun-toting bushgirl who warded off an attacker in her youth, or the Womens Weekly soft lens treatment, really going to cut through to the Liberals intractable "women problem?"Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep 19 - The Feeding Frenzy
A Leongatha mother of two Erin Patterson is declared a triple murderer who killed her in laws with a lunch of beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms, and newsrooms in Australia and around the world go into overdrive.It's the biggest international story to come out of Australia since Cardinal George Pell was convicted according to Denis Muller, and it's not over yet.Plus ex ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf tells why she fought on through the courts after being illegally sacked, despite anonymous death threats and potential financial ruin. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behind the headlines in their revealing podcast Truth, Lies and Media. New episodes each Wednesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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