Cheap is best, care to put it to the test?
By Kristie-Lee Clifford
Are you a victim of current affairs programs?
My parents are, every night I am subjected to A Current Affair.
There’s nothing like sitting down for my daily dose of news and being blown away by the 12...
The weekend’s winners and losers
The deaths of two British soldiers were overshadowed by a football game. Photo: British Ministry of Defence
By Luke Henriques-Gomes
Two British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan at the weekend.
A death in Afghanistan, let alone two,...
Aca-Meme-ia & LOLitics.
By Tennille Secomb
Following Cambridge’s recent Internet culture conference, ROFLCon, a particularly worrying article circulated the Internet this week, claiming that LOLCats have invaded Aca-meme-ia and are ‘making us...
Is Social Media impeding on our lives?
Alyce Shaw
In recent times, the online world has impacted my life in such a way, I want to delete it as a friend, un-follow it, and hide it from the live feed that is my life.
The first offence was an abrupt email from an old yet estranged...
Paul Henry attacks refugees
Network Ten have worked hard to develop a reputation of being reasonably fair with programs like The Project giving the public a balanced view of current affairs. So, when I switched on their newest breakfast program I wasn’t...
I’ve seen enough
By Monique Capomolla
Last night my family and I sat down to watch ‘The Voice’, a 2 hour program taken up with at least 30 minutes of advertisement time. I found most of the commercials to be clichéd, over acted and most...
Operation ‘Kony 2012′ Still On Track?
By Ryan McGee
Image By: PipPipHooray1
Joseph Kony, remember him?
Since March, the charity group ‘Invisible Children’ put his face and the atrocities of his Lord’s Resistance Army in the spotlight all over the world in sensational...
Twitter is the new tangible news.
By Clementine Zawadzki.
Picture courtesy of tiago_custiodo via Flickr.
Is Twitter a trustworthy source of journalism?
It is rife with gossip such as Katy Perry unfollows Russell Brand and the latest holiday pictures from the Kardashians,...
Will media regulation spark the death of free press?
By Charlotte Brundrett
What’s the first thought that comes to your mind when you think of media regulation?
Copious talks of inquiries, independent investigations and report findings. It seems to be a subject highjacked by the...
Insta-what? Insta-who? Instagram!
By Kelly Reid.
What is this fun innovative way of sharing your photos with friends and millions of other viewers that everyone is raving on about?
Co-founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, Instagram is a free, fun quirky...
