Next Episode of Media Watch is
Season 2026 / Episode 27 and airs on 10 August 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.
The spectacle of an Iranian state funeral, covered by international reporters. ABC takes the stand at the Antisemitism Royal Commission, answering claims of antisemitic bias. Plus a glossy magazine's AI mishap.
A Tasmanian minister whips up discontent on his socials following an inconvenient question. AI "news" websites publish robotic slop after pilfering content from real journalists. Plus British media grapple with Nigel Farage's main opponent - Count Binface - a man with a bin on his head.
The ABC scrubs two Four Corners episodes after concerns about the veracity of sources. Sudan's forgotten war: Industrial-scale massacre struggles to compete on the nightly news. Plus Queensland's Courier Mail forced to backpedal claims that EVs are a significant source of toxic tyre dust.
The peptide black market hiding in plain sight on social media, and why regulators are struggling to keep up. Four Corners' anonymous corporate coke dealer claims she was only acting, leading another ABC program to be pulled. Plus Brekkie blunder: Sunrise incorrectly reports Volodymyr Zelenskyy has resigned with no one seeming to notice.
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