Truth, Lies and Media

Gina “One Nation” Rinehart is adding “media mogul” to her business card.The mining billionaire has just bought into Southern Cross Media. the owner of the Seven Network - a broadcaster that boasts televisions highest rating news services. Can we now expect Warp 5 migrant bashing, nuclear level climate denying, peak ABC hating and Pauline Hanson back on Dancing With The Stars? Watch this space.Plus we honour the 18 year old American journalism student who stood before the most powerful pro-Trump CBS News executives at a glittering Emmys ceremony and dropped a stunning truth bomb right into their laps. Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s our SpineWatch edition! We’re on the search for that elusive media backbone .. as the ABC is strangely silent following the ejection of its news crew from a One Nation press conference .. but then strongly pushes back against the demands of Jillian Segal the anti semitism special envoy.Plus Pauline Hanson declares she wants to be PM while Tony Abbott still thinks he is and is eyeing a NSW seat so he can return triumphantly to the federal parliament.Can we expect vigorous questioning when these two float their ambitions on Murdoch’s Sky News? (🚨No Spine Detected alert)And the network that got burned by the sexist, crude and bigoted Kyle and Jackie O show …. hires Karl and Eddie. Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The heartbreaking image of a little Indigenous girl abducted and killed flashes around Australia and the world as riots erupt in Alice Springs.  It is an important story but begs the question: Why are Indigenous communities ignored by mainstream media until a tragedy of immense proportions makes it impossible to look away?In the US political activist Jess Craven unleashes on journalists who paid good money and suited up so they could attend a gala dinner with their presidential abuser suggesting the profession might be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome "Get some self esteem" she tells them. "He is dismantling your entire industry. He hates you".Plus can you imagine the front page outrage if it were Anthony Albanese being gifted a one million dollar aircraft by Australia's richest woman? Once again Pauline Hanson gets a free ride.Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prison warders rush to shield accused Australian war criminal Ben Roberts Smith from media intrusion by blocking the path of photographers .. why are some prisoners more equal than others?Prince Harry and Meghan fly home to the US but not before the Duchess shares disturbing revelations about how the billion dollar social media hate industry trolls her.Trusted ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler is warning viewers about a fraudulent but disturbingly believable AI video circulating on Facebook where he appears to be having a stand up blue with Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn.  And Hungary is finally freed from a corrupted state broadcaster that served as a Nazi style propaganda arm for a dictator with the success of Prime Minister elect Peter Magyar.Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australia's most decorated soldier Ben Roberts Smith is arrested over alleged war crimes and taken into custody .. the alleged crimes, which Roberts Smith denies ever happened, may never have come under scrutiny had it not been for the dogged work of investigative journalists Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters.Plus .. Trump's armageddon threats follow his expletive ridden demands that Iran open the f+king strait of Hormuz "you crazy bastards" - the sort of commentary you'd see graffitied on the back of a public toilet door.  Can we call him deranged yet?And facing extinction, the Victorian Liberal President blasts the party's disastrous habit of taking policy advice from hard right Murdoch mouthpieces Peta Credlin and Pauline Hanson.Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denis Muller warns of the dangers around broadcasting a known liar and racist live to air as respected political journalists call on the media to challenge the hate of Pauline Hanson while One Nation surges in popularity.Major disruptions to hit news programs as ABC staff go on strike, frustrated over repeated below inflation pay rises and the insidious practice of forcing staff on to precarious month to month contracts.  Plus how do you report on an emerging crisis as hundreds of petrol stations across Australia run out of fuel? Actual facts need to make a comeback rigfht across the media spectrum .. but who will play it straight and who will weaponise the fear?Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beware the unholy alliance - Mark Zuckerberg's gargantuan Meta and the monster Murdoch media have just joined forces in a deal that creates the world's biggest disinformation machine enabling News Corps hard right, hate filled content to teach Meta's artificial intelligence products how to respond to questions.Expect a massive hook up which will amplify anti migrant, anti science, anti minority narratives.Denis Muller says if you're worried about disinformation and fakery, this is a vision from hell.  While we're skating the hellscape, Donald Trump is falsely accusing media outlets of treason for failing to gush over his disastrous bombing war, a crime punishable by death. The Presidents sycophantic media regulator is threatening the broadcast networks with licence revocation unless they stick to the company line.And the brash Australian media mogul, ACMs Antony Catalano who snapped up dozens of regional mastheads in 2019, has made headlines of his own - for all the wrong reasons.Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Distressed members of the Iranian women's national soccer team have been dramatically granted asylum in Australia .. following threats to their lives from Iran after they refused to sing the national anthem ahead of an Asian Cup game.It was an intense operation cloaked in secrecy and the media that knew about it were asked not to blow the whistle to protect them.  We look at the story of international intrigue that was somehow successfully kept under wraps.Plus we dive into the disinformation war running alongside Donald Trump's bombing war. The US President is now falsely claiming it was Iran that murdered 175 people, mostly children, at an elementary school on the first day of the attack, despite clear evidence the slaughter was delivered by a Tomahawk missile - the type only used by the United States in this conflict.And we wave goodbye to the $200m radio juggernaut that was vile Kyle and Jackie O. Turns out they hate each other more than any minority they liked to persecute on the radio.Support independent journalismBecome a member Our SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Truth, Lies & Media Live📆 Sunday 15th March🕦 6:30pm📍 The Coolroom, Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine 🎫 TicketsSupport independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Palace PR machine kept ex Prince Andrew’s tawdry secrets hidden for decades - but no more. Denis Muller describes the “startled corpse” photo that flew around the world within minutes and revisits the other great royal scandal also covered up - the Hitler fanboy Edward viii who called on Britain from exile after abdicating to make peace with the violent fascist. Plus the New York Daily News calls out the Trump administration as a the world’s biggest criminal enterprise - existing to lie, steal and murder - in a powerful editorial truth bomb.And the spread of white supremacist, climate denying narratives into news feeds is normalising dangerous, racist, democracy-destroying ideas ..and it’s been meticulously planned that way. So why won’t the media report on the Senate inquiry which is revealing the dark forces behind this toxic disinformation machinery?  “Truth Lies & Media” drops just after midnight Wednesday mornings!Support independent journalismBecome a member Our SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Truth, Lies & Media Live📆 Sunday 15th March🕦 6:30pm📍 The Coolroom, Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine 🎫 TicketsSupport independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ASIO takes aim at the ABC as Four Corners questions intelligence failures in the lead up to the Bondi terror attack .. The mighty Washington Post which broke the Watergate scandal now being detonated by its owner Jeff Bezos in order to curry favour with a corrupt President.And the bizarre “love and friendship” headline published by The Age for the visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog, accused of inciting a genocide. Plus we farewell Jon Kudelka, beloved political cartoonist. Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bondi media BS .. how the mainstream media led by the Murdoch press wanted the public to think it was railing against hate while it weaponised a massacre.In the US we examine the arrest of a former CNN anchor Don Lemon in a Trump crackdown to silence the press after the fascist regimes agents executed a mother and then an ED nurse in Minneapolis.At the same time Washington Post boss Jeff Bezos pays a brazen bribe as he pays millions to Melania Trump to make a movie about Melania Trump starring Melania Trump .. which has spectacularly bombed.And the Australian news outlets openly sexist headline “Why I Wouldn’t Marry Sussan Ley” sparks fury as it reduces a political leaders worth to her desirability as a wife.“Truth Lies @ Media” roars into 2026!💥Apple & Spotify Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the future of a world where untouchable gangster states can ignore international law and storm into sovereign countries, kill innocents, kidnap the President and thieve their resources? Are we next if we don’t do what we’re told? This special Deep Dive episode scrutinises Trumps brazenly illegal kidnapping of a head of state in order to steal Venezuelas vast oil reserves.With Prof Emeritus (International Politics) Damien Kingsbury.Support independent journalismBecome a memberOur SocialsFacebookBlueSkyX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.