This page brings together all the stories on Australia that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

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The Beauty Of Courage
Australian photojournalist and artist George Gittoes, whose work is traveling the world in the show "Lives in the Balance," risks his life constantly to make art that reveals the horrors of war.
From Daily Mail & Guardian, 16 March 2001.
> also about: Oceania Media Arts

Rupert's Golden Years
As Rupert Murdoch celebrates his 70th birthday, Guardian editor Peter Preston looks back at his nemesis and sees a consummate newspaperman, family man and fighter whose victims perhaps deserved to lose.
From Guardian Unlimited, 4 March 2001.
> also about: United Kingdom, United States, Europe, North America, Western Europe, Oceania, Business, Personalities, Newspapers Television

Sports And Sex 2000
From the media obsession with "babes" like Anna Kournikova and Tiger Woods to gay issues, Jeff Merron recaps how sex played out in sports coverage last year.
From SportsJones, 9 January 2001.
> also about: Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Cultural Impacts Diversity

Global Arts Federation
National arts councils and arts-funding agencies from 50 countries have agreed to form an international federation to benefit artists, arts organizations and communities throughout the world. The decision to create the federation was made by delegates attending last month's World Summit on the Arts and Culture, hosted by the Canada Council for the Arts. Australia, Venezuela, Singapore, South Afric...
From Arts Wire Current, 9 January 2001.
> also about: Canada, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, United States Venezuela

From Our Readers: Top Media Stories Of 2000
From India to Australia, the Philippines to the U.S.A., MediaChannel advisors and readers respond to News Dissector Danny Schechter with their own picks for the top media stories of the year.
From The Media Channel, 3 January 2001.
> also about: Ireland, Peru, Philippines, Africa, Europe, Business, Cultural Impacts, Freedom of Expression, News Coverage, Politics, Technology Multimedia/Internet

Public Broadcasting Worldwide
How can public broadcasters remain independent from government control but ensure adequate funding? A comprehensive new online book examining systems in six countries offers some answers. ALSO: See the MediaChannel Special Report: Global Public Broadcasting
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, 1 December 2000.
> also about: Canada, France, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, Business, Policy/Law, Public Broadcasting, Radio Television

Gender Games And The Sports Press
What's next for post-Olympics women's sports reporting, wonders Janine Mikosza. She expects that the recent atypical rise in attention will give way to the usual state of neglect where even guinea pig racing can get more coverage .
From M/C Reviews, 18 October 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity News Coverage

Australia After Dark
The 2000 Feelgood Olympics have a less-than-benevolent underside that the mainstream media are ignoring, writes Nadya Stani from Sydney. Depth is the first sacrifice when media are submerged in nationalism and obsession with sport.
From The Media Channel, 27 September 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity News Coverage

Justice, Not Gestures
Newspapers and TV draped their coverage of the opening ceremonies in superlatives that became hyperbole. Kim Bullimore contends it will take more than symbolic depictions of black and white together to repair racism's wound.
From Green Left Weekly, 27 September 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity, News Coverage, Newspapers Television

Global Newspeak
As the world's best athletes compete in the Olympics in Australia and protesters clash in Prague, some media reporting is unable to generate interest or transcend the barriers of ideology, says News Dissector Danny Schechter.
From The Media Channel, 27 September 2000.
> also about: Czech Republic, United States, Activism, Credibility/Accuracy, Cultural Impacts News Coverage

Dumb Yankees
Australians living in the United States are familiar with the distorted visions of their homeland reported by the U.S. media during the Olympics. Tim Blair asks why American journalists can't get that country right.
From Online Journalism Review, 27 September 2000.
> also about: Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Newspapers Television

Cyberfeminism
Historically, the presence of women is said to have disrupted public spaces, notes Linda Carroli. Have women subsequently found in cyberspace a virtual "room of their own" — one denied them in the physical realm?
From M/C Reviews, 26 July 2000.
> also about: Asia and the Pacific, Cultural Impacts, Diversity Multimedia/Internet

Australia's Original Sins
Will the Sydney Olympics bring aborigine issues to the country's — and the world's — consciousness? John Pilger observes that aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman's good-natured smile is being used to conceal the true state of the indigenous population.
From Carlton Interactive: John Pilger, 10 July 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity Politics

Whose Prosperity?
Editors at News Corp.'s newspaper, The Australian, called it a paradox: majority dissatisfaction despite material prosperity. But Peter Boyle suggests that only the rich _ Murdoch's editors among them — are truly prospering.
From Green Left Weekly, 28 June 2000.
> also about: Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Politics Newspapers

Speaking Sportuguese
"Rowe has missed the crucial point that male athletes are not sexualized on the field, through framing, editing and commentary (three elements which are constantly used to sexualize female athletes for a male gaze)." Kathryn Goldie reviews David Rowe's "Sport, Culture and the Media: The Unruly Trinity," a book that explores the relationship between sports and media, particularly in Australia....
From M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, 19 June 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity News Coverage

 




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