MEDIA FEATURES
Alan Jones: power or myth
Broadcaster Alan Jones evokes fury and admiration and is thought to have wide political influence. BOHDANA SZYDLIK analyses Chris Masters’ book Jonestown.
Light cast on Howard’s dark victory
By DANICA FELLOWS
“They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press…they closed Australia to refugees – and won a mighty election victory.” (Marr and Wilkinson, 2004)
Packer’s Nine now stone cold dead
Kerry Packer’s Channel Nine is dead, according to Gerald Stone. DOUGLAS FERGUSON analyses Stone’ book and talked to the author
Technology helping investigation of war
Investigative war journalism far from fading is being helped by the internet and other technological advances, LAUREN BICKNELL argues.
No plan: fiasco after Saddam’s fall
The unpreparedness of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein arguably caused the quagmire that followed. LOUISE COWIE analyses Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Not war, just standard operating procedure
ABU GHRAIB showed the US military breaching the very standards and values it says it is fighting for. LUCY ZELIC analyses Philip Gourevitch’s Standard Operating Procedure.