• Conflating Immigrants and Refugees

Stop the Press delves into the political beliefs of journos and their bosses.

• Andrew Bolt starts his own Media Watch
• Miranda talks about aliens

LOLBolt explains why LNP lies are the ALP’s fault.

Dave wants to know if there’s an expectation that Government welfare should help people to avoid hard choices instead of meeting needs

• Labor’s Tax Aversion
• Wages are too low and too high
• Everything is a tax slug

• News Limited is astonished what we spend money on
• Ross Gittins says the budget is “good”, does that make him a leftist?
• Winners and Losers
• The Daily Tele’s front page
• The Hun
• The ABC playing a not so straight bat

Stop The Press looks at a new entrant in our media landscape.

• Something Wonky discusses fact checking websites - Episode #19
• PolitiFact’s “Truth-o-meter”
• Politifact responds to some early criticism

LOLBolt keeps crusading, but seems to live a joyless life.

• Another ‘Leftist ABC’ whine
• Why does Andrew hate science?

The Inbox of Doom uncovers some very old secrets, allegedly.

• Geoffrey Barker notices that some journalists are shit; focuses on the “pert-breasted” ones.
• Shit journos can only present changes carbon price compensation in the asinine “broken promise” narrative
• But hope for the future - actual journalism from future Guardian employee Greg Jericho, correcting the “taxing us higher than ever” deception.

The Focus Group dives deep into the nation’s psyche.

• The power of the “Gillard has rooned the country” fantasy.
• Clive Palmer wonders who would take on the billionaire’s burden.
• Tony Abbott wants more kids for “Women of calibre”

Dave learns words.

LOLBolt Andrew vs “the Left”

• Andrew wants to save the ABC from not agreeing with him on so many things. MediaWatch accuses him of putting everyone who disagrees with him in the “leftist” box, and Andrew says “DO NOT!”
• And Jonathan Green wonders why Media Watch should be hosted by any polemicist
• Meanwhile, Andrew resents being told he’s gone soft on Gina basically seeking to crush journalists’ ability to hold the powerful to account by protecting sources
• Elsewhere Andrew wonders when the Left will criticise the ALP for jailing refugee kids, which begs the question - does Andrew actually know any Leftists?

• How do you decide what $12 Billion spending looks like
• Preston Towers - Twits, not tweeps
• Andrew Elder - Playing the Clown
• Nick Minchin wants to raise the GST
• 4 Corners - No Advantage

The Focus Group comes to terms with a small tax increase to help people with disabilities

Dave learns words - this week “elites”

Mr Denmore tells us what’s stuck in his craw.

• Grad student punctures enormous hole in austerity theory
• Abbott demotes staffer over throat cut comment
• Tony and the boat billboard
• NSW signs onto the Federal Government’s ‘Gonski’ reforms

Stop The Press looks at the fallout of the Boston bombing manhunt.

• Why is Boston ‘terrorism’ but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?
• Reflections on the Recent Boston Crisis: Reddit

LOLbolt

• is at war with Gerard
• And proudly nails his colours to the slippery mast

Stop the Press gives some counter-examples:

• Gemma still outraged by the same things applying to Gillard as previous PMs. This time - PHOTOGRAPHERS! Funded by TAXPAYERS!
• Miranda blames climate change scientists for anti-vaccers, despite having been such a vigorous anti-vaccination misinformation spreader for such a long time.
• Business Insider Australia spoke to the military at Guantanamo and it turns out it’s totally lovely.

The Focus Group asks “which lines can you really get away with (if the media let you)?”

• ABC and LNP confused about whether state or federal governments are responsible for law and order
• War declared on “class warfare” warfare
• The Daily Liberal Party Press Release tries to make slashing penalty rates sound good (hint: only ask to hear from businesses who resent paying workers on their “most profitable days”.)

And Stuck in my Craw returns, as Ben Pobjie helps Wayne Swan and Menzies House with the finer points of satire.

• The vast differences between the NBN and the Coalition’s alternative
• Coalitions NBN plan to stop consumers taking control of media

Stop The Press returns to the journalistic output of Gemma Jones.

• First Bloke Tim Mathieson set for life if Julia goes

A case when press freedom is actually at stake
We look at what happens if you slag off the boss
How not to interview Rupert Murdoch

• The Rupert Murdoch interview

LOLBOLT is back for another week

• Lawfare

We briefly discuss the IPA serving freedom by the plate.

• Let the myth-making begin
• Mark Knight

• Julia’s Boats Baby Bonus
• Tony Abbott’s Daughters like him
• Luxury townhouses on Christmas Island
• Gemma’s hits and memories

And celebrates the newest addition to Channel 7’s news team.

Gay Alcorn discusses the credability of the gallery
News Ltd has been effective at telling Australians they haven’t received carbon price compensation.

The Focus Group asks why we still don’t have a right to privacy

And just like every other media organisation we talk about twitter.

• Can you rely on twitter screen caps anymore?
• Could twitter have prevented the Iraq war

• Prime Minister Crean?
• Torbay gone, Barnaby in?

Stop The Press examines the rational and polite response to potential media regulation.

• Planet Janet calls hypocrite first.
• Miranda doubles down on the Tele’s campaign
• The day News Ltd supported newspaper regulation
• Bob Woodward’s Wired - being wrong while telling the truth

The Something Wonky Book Club ponders Redcliffe MP Scott Discoll’s literary allusions.

• Meanwhile in Qld - QUT helping to unseat Rudd

Mr Tiedt tells us what’s stuck in his craw

• Attorney General Chaos
• Nobody wants the changes

Jeremy gives us a good news story about the Wagga Daily Advertiser

The LOLBOLT Comedy Section rides again.

• Andrew finally reveals who the “Left wing media” are.
• Cheering on Piers Akerman’s crazy old man rant
• Naming and shaming journalistic collaborators

The Focus Group asks, is it OK to hate the Prime Minister?

• PM Gillard jeered from the public gallery
• Gillard regains preferred PM title: Newspoll

We also discuss an increase to the cost of getting on the ballot paper this year.

Stop The Press takes a look at what happens when the ABC compares policy

• Playing the man
• The difference between advocacy and analysis: Media Watch

And we have a terrifying reminder of what the old Cut & Paste Trophy used to be like, as News Ltd runs some shameless misogyny-baiting as their lead story and reap exactly what they were hoping to sow.

• Get a job bogans: or, why western Sydney is more complicated than that
• What is western Sydney?

Stop The Press asks, where’s the best place in Holt St to get lunch? Preferably with a side serve of Miranda.

We finally crack and reintroduce the LOLBolt comedy segment.

Rosalie Brady tells us what’s Stuck in her Craw

And finally, Oh Cory warns us about the terror of the surveillance state.

• Fighting for what you believe in
• Scott Morrison follows asylum seekers around

Stop The Press visits bucolic Bairnsdale

• A Change.org petition responds the Advertiser’s editorial

Matthew Hatton tells us what’s Stuck in his Craw.

• Quality Jernalisms
• Katharine Murphy provides an example of Craw Sticking journalism

Stop The Press talks polls and leadership.

And we dip into the Inbox of Doom.

• Gillard’s “Muslim speech”

• James Patterson - enraging Lefties is a job well done
• Should the MRRT collect a lot of money or not?
• Tony Abbott wants his MPs to be visible, but doesn’t want to answer questions

• When does a discussion paper become a policy

• Bipartisan support for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people

• ABC News24 presenter Jeremy Fernandez racially abused on Sydney bus
• French tourist racially abused on Melbourne bus

Stop The Press wonders if balance is in the eye of the beholder

• SMH distractions
• ABC’s “Dog’s breakfast”
• PM’s over abundance of goodwill
• Andrew Bolt sees leftists everywhere
• Gemma Jones goes hypocrisy spotting

And we take a look at Vatican Idol.

ABC election coverage guidelines

Stop the Press explores the chaos “meme”

• Press gallery in turmoil as Michelle Grattan quits The Age
• Andrew Bolt continues to be a dill
• Labor reshuffle confuses the gallery
• LNP play press for fools with their “caretaker” commentary

Oh Cory examines the media’s anti-conservative bias

And Nigel Herbert tells us what’s Stuck in his Craw.

Missing the story

• SMH: “fair enough”
• Peter Hartcher this time: “so it works as a political tactic”.
• Gay Alcorn’s lament
• Andrew Elder’s response

Shameless smears:

• Nova Peris
• Tim Matheson
• And to be fair, let’s look at what Cory Bernardi thinks is a “shameless smear” from Fairfax.

Missing the point:

• The only aim of NewStart is putting ppl in jobs, not keeping them alive
• Alan Kohler: Selling Telstra saved this country… from a deficit from JWH’s profligacy. So we should thank him for it

Completely hiding the point:

• The Australian’s climate change front page switcheroo

While the Focus Group asks, “Is there an election this year?”

• Tony’s unofficial campaign official launch
• Tony Abbott’s “first lot of Australians”
• Julia Gillard is wearing glasses, she must think she’s Hillary!
• Dueling National Press Club Addresses
• Craig Thomson gets arrested

• Nova Peris gains the PM’s support for Senate bid
• Tony Abbott tries to intervene in NT preselection
• Tony Abbott intervenes in NSW preselecton

• Scott Morrison’s second chance preselection

• Essential: hard-hearted public not convinced on dole boost

Stop the Press looks at car crashes and free speech.

• Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews should have revealed accdident at the time
• Geert Gone Wilders

“Oh Cory” fondly remembers the gold standard

Jeremy wonders how preconceptions colour the way we view the news

• The ACL want their rights to discriminate preserved
• In Malaysia it’s been discovered that V-neck sweaters make you gay
• Andrew Laming paints Aboriginal and Pacific Islander people as welfare dependent
• One of Australia’s newest citizens is being kept in Villawood

Stop The Press revisits hoax press releases and looks at historical revisionism.

• Some guy at the Daily Tele pretends that The Greens support paedophilia
• John Howard’s government were not spendthrifts, according to John Howard
• Peter Reith forgets that dairy deregulation had an effect in dairy farmers

Margo Kingston tells us what’s Stuck in her Craw.

• Australians for honest politics

And we bring back one of our most loved segments ‘Oh, Cory’

• Tony Abbott announces that he will be spending time with the RFS
• The Daily Telegraph imagines Abbott’s heroism
• Dave imagines other famous events the Tele could cover
• Miranda knows that it’s all the Green’s fault
• George Monbiot thinks it’s Tony Abbott’s fault

Stop The Press looks inside Tony Abbott’s fridge and adds an ANZ logo to their emails

• Peta “With Tony Abbott on my side” Credlin talks with News Ltd
• Preston Towers responds to the ensuing furore
• Whithaven Coal share price hit by hoax
• Greens endorse hoax

Mr Tiedt tells us what’s Stuck in his Craw

A listener asks what we think about fireworks vs food.

• Jenny Macklin claims she could live on Newstart
• An Australian pensioner lives in Asia to keep cost of living down
• The Tele opines on how to make the pension “work”

Stop The Press wants to know what newspapers won’t print?

The Inbox of Doom explains the “Fiscal Cliff”

And we finish up with Something Wonky’s predictions for 2013

• News calls out psychics whose predictions fail
• James Delingpole whinges about his privilege being challenged

The focus group wants to know what happens when fringe ideas collide, and what counts as a broken promise?

• Catch the Fire Ministries’ Danny Nalliah launches Rise Up Australia Patry
• Wayne Swan breaks promises, Joe Hockey “recasts” his

Jeremy asks “Can “Insiders” actually be a fourth estate?”

And the Inbox of Doom stomps all over the recently dead.

Stop The Press pores over the James Ashby non-story, and looks at sex and work.

• No need for anyone heed this drivel

The Inbox of Doom visits Facebook

And Dave wants to know what the correlation is between geeks and left wing politics.

• Liberal HQ warns candidates off of social media
• Pyne calls move to enroll young voters a “rort”
• Pyne caught red-handed with the airbrush

Stop the Press looks at the fallout of the “Royal Hoax”, and the easiest place in Australia to be a journalist.

• Prank Calls – Taking Advantage of the Vulnerable
• Destroying the Joint? Austereo and our Moral and Social Compass
• News.com.au reprinting Reddit “Ask Me Anything” posts
• Sydney’s hottest courier?
• Great thinkers quoting Herald Sun readers

And we see who’s been writing to the Wagga Daily Advertiser

• News.com.au “Mega Tsunami”
• Is Julie Bishop broken?
• Andrew Bolt carefully avoids making any claims

Stop the Press reflects on Andrew Bolt’s love of diversity, Miranda Devine’s litany of failure and calls back to the Pure Poison days to chat about the Herald Sun’s James Campbell.

Jeremy’s back on the Cory bandwagon, and he’s adding a side serve of Pastor Danny.

Sunili Govinage returns to tell us what’s stuck in her craw

• Asylum Seeker cheer squad
• Another Tele beat up

The Focus Group discusses the value of labels in political communication.

Stop The Press reluctantly dips a toe into the Julie Bishop scandal.

Due to popular demand, more deranged letters to the Editor from the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser.

• Punish rich people who betrayed their class and voted for Obama
• Cutting political opponents out of your life
• Miranda’s lessons for Gillard from the US election not looking so good

The Focus Group wonders about legal history.

Stop The Press looks at a series of non-stories

• Giving refugees money to survive on
• Rudd and Turnbull’s mutual Q and A flattery
• Who is the Prime Minister eating?

Something Wonky attempts to solve the situation in Gaza

• Dandenong train derailment
• An Australian fact check idea

The Focus Group looks at how to react to a disaster

Stop the press takes a look at what happens when a news organisation can’t let go of its obsessions

• Julie Posetti gets a new job
• Alex Greenwich labeled “Gay Party Boy” by the Tele
• Sunrise loves Malcolm and Kevin
• Miranda Devine doesn’t see sexism anywhere
• And then tells us why Tony is just like Mitt

Cam Smith tells us what’s stuck in his craw.

And we go once more to the Inbox of Doom