Truth, Lies and Media

The Liberals and the Nationals split in an election aftershock .. But who will the media cast as the villain?The journalist versus the disgraced war hero - Ben Roberts Smith is vowing to take his fight to the High Court in a proceeding Denis Muller says is the most significant defamation case in Australian legal history.And .. Why would Donald Trump fan boy over the Saudi Crown Prince who ordered the brutal killing of a journalist?  Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

Five people are served beef wellingtons made with mushrooms for a special lunch hosted by a country Mum. Three guests do not survive the lunch, and the Mum is charged with 3 counts of murder, and one of attempted murder, to which she has pleaded not guilty. It is called the Mushroom Trial. The case has journalists and news watchers fixated.  Why is this story dominating not only the podcast charts in Australia but headlines around the world?And after the belting Labor handed out to the Liberal Coalition, will the LNP still get the hero treatment from Rupert Murdoch?We look at the reception the media's giving to the post-election leaders who lost.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

We look at the blind insanity of News Corp as it takes Peter Dutton by the hand and leads him to electoral annihilation - then lectures the Liberal Party for "missing the warning signs" in its national broadsheet.  What's the future of the love in between Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal National Party, and has Saturday's bloodbath irreparably damaged the mogul's brand?Plus Kyle Sandilands threatens to pull his vile poorly-rating show out of Melbourne to punish audiences for not listening. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Kyle. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

As the polls solidify against him, Peter Dutton equates journalistic scrutiny with hate speech. His "Hate Media" includes the ABC, Guardian Australia, and "others", which by inference are The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

Advance and Atlas - the forces at work to mislead voters at election time.Influencers and their political ties - some progress on accountability. Word of a Russian military base in Indonesia is, for Dutton, too good to be true.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

The damage done underplaying a pandemic - New University of Melbourne research reveals how News Corp's harmful Covid reporting made the crisis worse. Sizzling political slogans - the right wing firebrand Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says it loud and proud - the LNP want to make Australia great again! How will that go down as Peter Dutton distances himself from the Trump trainwreck.And Donald Trump's brazen market manipulation - crashing world stockmarkets and then posting to his own social media network to buy stocks before that bolt-from-the-blue policy backflip. 

Peter Dutton sets his sights on the ABC, with a threat to cut funding if they don't produce his version of excellence - think LNP spin instead of news, and no pesky reporters asking questions.  The News Corp machine ratchets up the Albanese name-calling as Dutton falls behind in the polls.And as the Trump-induced global stock market bloodbath shows no signs of abating... he tells a reporter questions on the financial shock are 'stupid'. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

It's election season - that means the Murdoch press will back-in Dutton while spewing out overblown critiques of the Teals, the Greens and Anthony Albanese.How do you wade through the carefully curated polly-speak, the claims and counter claims and the inflammatory headlines that may or may not be true?  Plus why are social media influencers now included in the Budget lock-up - an annual event attended only by The Treasurer, his policy wonks and invited financial writers and political journalists?And an ex Channel 7 producer lobs another court bomb in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann defamation action.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

The unprecedented arrangement between a former Supreme Court Justice and an Australian Newspaper journalist is yet another serious malfunction exposed around the Lehrmann saga.Plus - Meta and other US tech giants take issue with our News Media Bargaining Code, but this is about more than just media.And - Trump's culture-war surveys reach Australian universities.Audio clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 25 2025Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia