Truth, Lies and Media

Updated audio - National Guard soldiers have been ordered into LA to quell violent riots with a Channel 9 journalist hit by a rubber bullet fired by a police officer while she was reporting live to air. Footage appears to show one police officer deliberately moving his aim in her direction.When billionaire gorillas - one in the White House - start hurling excrement at each other it's a train wreck the global media can't look away from. We'll take a look at the unfolding coverage of the Trump-Musk feud that's breaking the internet.  And after 16 years, "doing news differently" is coming to an end for Channel 10's The Project.  Denis Muller was an advisor to The Project team when it started out .. and warns a replacement news-current affairs show on Network 10 will face an uphill battle.  Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

Australia is sending a whistleblower to jail after documents he leaked to the ABC revealed war crimes in Afghanistan, making the whistleblower the only person to be imprisoned after the shocking revelations.Why do Australians have to risk everything to reveal military and government injustice?Plus we look at Karoline Leavitt, the 2019 college grad and MAGA zealot hurling insults at everyone from journalists to world leaders and U.S. judges as Donald Trumps press secretary and shouty mouthpiece.Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

Journalists aren't supposed to be the propaganda department of political parties... now The Saturday Paper has lifted the lid on the Abbott-Credlin-News Corp alliance that controls the Liberal Party.Their expose reveals the wrecking ball of a bizarre shadow government-in-exile that, with its media mates, still shapes messaging and wages war on dissenters.Plus a top CBS News boss quits as Donald Trump ratchets up his legal war on journalists who hold him accountable. Thank you to our amazing supporters! You can help us here: https://buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia

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.