Comment on news, culture, and ideas by Peter Strempel.

Identifying the fascist tendencies of Morrison’s Coalition
Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.
Comment on news, culture, and ideas by Peter Strempel.
Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.
JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for October 2021.
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for May 2021.
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for April 2021.
Commentary on current affairs, the news media, and the the state of journalism generally for March 2021.
What could a Freudian perspective reveal to us about the angry Scott Morrison thrashing about for an end to his sexual assault and harassment problem.
Translating Thomas Frank’s editorial about arrogant American ‘liberals’ for Australian audiences reveals a very unflattering picture of local left elitism.
Commentary on current affairs, the news media, and the state of journalism, February 2021.
Australian democracy is threatened by Chinese expansionism, unregulated corporate excesses, and its own neo-fascism.
True to form, News Corp executives give senate inquiry misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies.
Commentary on current affairs and the state of journalism.
How literacy skills might determine ’employability’ and promotion opportunities.
Scott ‘Scotty from marketing’ Morrison represents Aaron Sorkin’s lowest road possible when it comes to leaders.
Commentary on the news and the state of journalism in December 2020.
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