Next Episode of Media Watch is
Season 2026 / Episode 21 and airs on 29 June 2026 11:20
Media Watch is Australia's leading forum for media analysis and comment.Conflicts of interest, bank backflips, deceit, misrepresentation, manipulation, plagiarism, abuse of power, technical lies and straight out fraud: Media Watch has built an unrivalled record of exposing media shenanigans since it first went to air in 1989.The media provides the information we need to make decisions about our lives, but how reliable are the media reports that shape our views of the world?Media Watch turns the spotlight onto those who literally 'make the news': the reporters, editors, sub-editors, producers, camera operators, sound recordists and photographers who claim to deliver the world to our doorsteps, radios, computers and living rooms. We also keep an eye on those who try to manipulate the media: the PR consultants, spin-doctors, lobbyists and "news makers" who set the agenda.
Why the juiced-up athletes at the Enhanced Games weren't about selling athletic glory, but pharmaceuticals. The West Australian reports a "blood fuel" between Liberal Andrew Hastie and accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith. Plus Nine News reports a concussion pill as a medical breakthrough.
Turmoil at CBS continues with the firing of longtime '60 Minutes' reporter Scott Pelley, One Nation's playbook of bypassing traditional media for social channels has seen it surpass major parties in popularity. Sportsbet scoring prime position in news bulletins thanks to clever marketing.
The interventions of Elon Musk in the Belfast riots show, again, how he uses his platform X to amplify hate. Plus a preference-flow graph in the Australian Financial Review includes political parties you've never heard of.
A planned cull of wild horses has The Daily Telegraph chomping at the bit to voice its disapproval. 60 Minutes fails to give its audience the full picture when covering two child-abduction cases. Plus WIN viewers seeing double, as the same bulletin airs two nights in a row.
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