Media Watch - Season 26 / Year 2024
Season 26 / Year 2024
Episodes
Episode 1
PM's breach of faith. ABC, Lattouf and lobbyists. Cricket's invisible winner. AI sexism.
Episode 2
Biden. Tucker and Putin. Bolt v Police. G-string g-up.
Episode 3
Barnaby's fall. Humanising war victims. Seven ignores Gap.
Episode 4
Taylor mania. Navalny's death. Buyback balls-up. Correcting The Australian.
Episode 5
Rolfe's media 'friend'. Gut balloon, Alleged kidnapping, Sky News kayfabe.
Episode 6
NRL's Vegas dazzle. Meta media 'war'. Four Corners 'hit job'.
Episode 7
Roxy's giveaway. ABC-Lattouf case. Bronwyn sorry, again.
Episode 8
Rudd Trumped. Spotlight on Auerbach. ABC's AFL rewind.
Episode 9
'Coke for comment'. Gaza aid workers. News gamification.
Episode 10
Bondi Junction attack. Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case against Network Ten fails as Judge finds 'Lehrmann raped Higgins'. Brumbies and the ABC.
Episode 11
Lehrmann fallout. Hugh Grant v Murdoch. Snowtown freedom?
Episode 12
Musk the villain. Trump's 'catch and kill'. AI news rip-off.
Episode 13
Not Russian spies. 'Migration Watch' unmasked. Rolling TV Coverage.
Episode 14
Furry fury. AI unmasked. AFR v Stokes. Sunrise vax scare.
Episode 15
Albo's eviction notice. Whistleblower jailed. Nine's cruise freebie.
Episode 16
Terror in the skies. Albo's 'new' jet. Nuclear Fantasy and Soggy Sunak.
Episode 17
Guilty Trump fallout. Criminal Court attacks. Aunty's Tingle tangle.
Episode 18
Costello's fall. Origin head knock. Radio replay.
Episode 19
Roxy's giveaway embarrassment. Far-right love. Oz's Hitler smear. 'Porn hooked' tribe.
Episode 20
Dutton's nuclear play. AFL kiss 'outrage'. Cheng Lei bullied.
Episode 21
Dutton Snapchat scandal. Assange - guilty but free. Biden horror.
Episode 22
The framing of Senator Payman. Free-to-air 'death spiral'. Tory bloodbath.
Episode 23
Trump shot at. Biden warnings. Hottest crim. Seven's satire and stars.
Episode 24
Trump and Murdoch. Anti-EV campaign. Amazon PR.
Episode 25
Gold medal junkets. Attacking Kamala Harris. Woodside PR.
Episode 26
Fake news sparks riots. Wrong Flag. Smut FM.
Episode 27
Olympic blow. Media terror rhetoric. Nuclear censorship. Autism lasers.
Episode 28
Gaza visa fight. Media mogul Musk. 'White powder' whispers. Promo whoops.
Episode 29
Harry 'doomsayer' Dent. ABC MD quits. political influencers.
Episode 30
Fordham breach. Barrier Reef: thriving or dying?. Gina Says.
Episode 31
Taking the piss. Media's gambling addiction. Grenfell fire culture war. Vale Tim Bowden.
Episode 32
Ten's tasteless "exclusive". Overdose of inaccuracy. Pet-eating debunked. Nine's unease as Sneesby exits. Presented by guest host Janine Perrett.
Episode 33
ABC accused of audio no-no. Ghost papers haunt regional towns. Murdoch "Succession". Presented by guest host Janine Perrett.
Episode 34
Supermarket rip-offs. Some Help from Tony. Al Fayed exposed. Deadly clickbait. Presented by guest host Janine Perrett.
Episode 35
October 7 one year on: the devastating impact of the Gaza war on journalism - reporters killed, foreign press blocked, and newsrooms bombed. Plus Seven's Rainmaker and Sky News Election Lie.
Episode 36
Hurricane Heroics. Gaza media bloodshed. EV backfire. John Laws quits again.
Episode 37
Cassie's big sell. Reporting from Lebanon. Royal Bait.
Episode 38
Billionaire Blunder. Israel strike kills three reporters. No, Harvey, No!
US Election Special
A US election special. Will billionaire media moguls swing the US presidential election? Will a re-elected Trump punish the mainstream media? Should the media believe the opinion polls?
Episode 40
Trump's triumph. Where is the outrage?. ACMA's KIIS.
Episode 41
Amsterdam riots. 2GB spears and fears. Coked up ACT.
Episode 42
Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok ban. Macca and Dick. ABC Radio upheaval.
Paul Barry Farewell Episode
Paul Barry is in the chair for the final time. We look back over Paul's time fronting Media Watch including his sacking in 2000 plus the big themes and changes in the media landscape since his return in 2013.
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