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Jonathan Holmes, presenter of Media Watch, writes a lengthy defence of his team's reporting of the ANU death threats story on ABC's The Drum. You can read it here. The only point I am going to comment on is detail is the...

Your humble correspondent gets another mention in an editorial in The Australian today: IT'S no surprise that the ABC's Media Watch has no bite when it comes to scrutinising the national broadcaster's own news coverage...

The Australian publishes no less than four separate articles dealing, either directly or tangentially, with the ANU death threat story, and focussing in particular on the ABC's response to the release of the emails...

UPDATE: Andrew Bolt tears Media Watch to shreds here. ABC's Media Watch reported on the ANU FOI story last night (see here for background). They criticised the ABC for not properly correcting or clarifying their original...

UPDATE: Marc Hendrickx finds links to Canberra Times articles which make the same claim as the ABC regarding the ANU. ABC1's Media Watch covered the ANU FOI story in detail tonight. I'm not going to post in detail yet, but...

It is likely (although not guaranteed) that ABC's Media Watch will cover the ANU freedom of information request story tonight. Regrettably, I think we can all guess that criticism will be reserved for The Australian's coverage...

Chris Merritt, Legal Editor, writes today in the Weekend Australian of the ABC's failure to correct their report of 4 June 2011, which claimed that ANU scientists had received "death threats" in the six months prior to...