Media Watch - Season 2018
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: February 5, 2018
Media companies oppose draft laws; Muslim fashion outrage; Nine News for sale
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: February 12, 2018
Would you like facts with that?; The Barnaby affair; Cabinet leaks: from scoop to sorry
3 - Episode 3
Air Date: February 19, 2018
Turnbull sex ban; Taxing times at the ABC; The RSPCA and public accountability; Back from the future
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: February 26, 2018
Wrong picture; 60 Minutes Investigation; Rush v The Daily Telegraph
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: March 5, 2018
ABC rallies the troops; Nick Cater’s hypocrisy; Mass shootings covered LIVE; More ads masquerading as news
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: March 12, 2018
Herald Sun removes Tessa Sullivan articles; Britain's Sunday Times denies hacking; 'Talking Lifestyle' axed; Studio Ten rips off Today Tonight
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: March 19, 2018
A Sunrise to forget; Labor's Tax Storm; Fake Sydney property story exposes media; Daily Mail's African gang obsession; Old footage used in Tathra fire coverage
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: March 26, 2018
The latest MH370 theory is full of holes; White privilege outrage; Instagram spruiking; Charity rejects donation from 7's Sunday Night
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: April 9, 2018
Malcolm Turnbull turns 30; A Current Affair, yet to put the record straight; The Australian's mistaken identity; AFR's Joe Aston and his vitriolic language
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: April 16, 2018
Protesters storm Sunrise, again; Rush v The Daily Telegraph, update; Photoshopping Jen and Brad; Pushing medicinal marijuana
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: April 23, 2018
Frontpage Vegemite madness; Royal commission backtrack; Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching; Rush v The Daily Telegraph, update
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: April 30, 2018
Nine's ANZAC blunder; Eddie McGuire's fake supplement ad; Glossing over Myanmar; Media drops celebrity financial planner
13 - Episode 13
Air Date: May 7, 2018
Press freedom under attack; Sophie Mirabella vs the Benalla Ensign; ABC ruled impartial; Ice Age warning
14 - Episode 14
Air Date: May 14, 2018
Budget cuts at ABC; Cambodian press freedom; How to stage a paparazzi pic; Royal Wedding countdown
15 - Episode 15
Air Date: May 21, 2018
Royal Wedding capers; Press Council pings Daily Telegraph, again; Reporting on murder suicides; Legal secrets
16 - Episode 16
Air Date: May 28, 2018
Pub etiquette, PM falsely accused; Ipswich corruption scandal; Facebook bans Cancer Council poo ads; Photoshopping Jen and Brad, again
17 - Episode 17
Air Date: June 4, 2018
Seven's Barnaby flop; Pollies dodging questions; Far right activist Tommy Robinson jailed
18 - Episode 18
Air Date: June 11, 2018
Poo jogger; Suicide reporting; Sugar hit; Wagga's paywall rebellion
19 - Episode 19
Air Date: June 18, 2018
Qantas 'nosedive'; Alan Jones defamation trial; Killer Instinct undone; Daily Telegraph sells out
20 - Episode 20
Air Date: June 25, 2018
Privatising the ABC?
21 - Episode 21
Air Date: July 2, 2018
Sky sexism apology; Timor spying; Plastic bag ban; Vale Liz Jackson
22 - Episode 22
Air Date: July 9, 2018
Thai Cave Rescue; Fairfax bungle GST; NW - the art of fabrication; Wagga's Daily Advertiser; Not Seven News
23 - Episode 23
Air Date: July 16, 2018
Let her work; Basketbrawl fallout; 60 Minutes Dhakota Williams; Herald Sun apology
24 - Episode 24
Air Date: July 23, 2018
Sunrise cave theft; Cliff Richard v The BBC; Sleeping Giants rise against Sky; Not on Seven Perth
25 - Episode 25
Air Date: July 30, 2018
Media merger; One Big Switch; Out with a bang; Lee Lin Chin signs off
26 - Episode 26
Air Date: August 6, 2018
Kyle's media circus; Andrew Bolt's foreigner rant; WIN News runs PR puff; Enough Bags
27 - Episode 27
Air Date: August 13, 2018
Sky News backlash; Fairfax v Ben Roberts-Smith; Karl's reef affair; Rush v Daily Telegraph - update
28 - Episode 28
Air Date: August 20, 2018
Katter Solution; The Tele’s gender wars; Petulant West Australian; No WIN for Tasmania
29 - Episode 29
Air Date: August 27, 2018
How powerful voices in the media waged war on a Prime Minister
30 - Episode 30
Air Date: September 3, 2018
Comedy Conviction; Hats off to the new PM; Ramsay St for sale; Playing the man
31 - Episode 31
Air Date: September 10, 2018
Bulldog bulldust; Skripal poisoning; Reporting from Nauru; Palmer pushback
32 - Episode 32
Air Date: September 17, 2018
Buyer beware; Missing climate; Jones judgement; PR emergency
33 - Episode 33
Air Date: September 24, 2018
Guthrie gone; Interview emBRAgoed; 60 Minutes property; Media moguls
34 - Episode 34
Air Date: October 1, 2018
ABC chaos, Who dunnit, Tech junkets
35 - Episode 35
Air Date: October 8, 2018
Climate calamity; High stakes, Minor debacle
36 - Episode 36
Air Date: October 15, 2018
Climate coverage; religious freedom furphy; Goodbye Hendo
37 - Episode 37
Air Date: October 22, 2018
Wentworth washup; Wrong police car; Serial prankster; Saudi journalist murdered
38 - Episode 38
Air Date: October 29, 2018
Media terror; 'Fair dinkum' power; Geelong nudie run; Royals in Fiji
39 - Episode 39
Air Date: November 5, 2018
Fury at the Mail
40 - Episode 40
Air Date: November 12, 2018
Missing Mark; True-blue ScoMo; Media freeze; Cancer confusion.
41 - Episode 41
Air Date: November 19, 2018
Bali virus beat-up; Trump v CNN; Police PR; Small store, big hype
42 - Episode 42
Air Date: November 26, 2018
Chasing Renae; SA press freedom; Dirty tricks fallout; Roast Lamb
43 - Episode 43
Air Date: December 3, 2018
Milne v Guthrie; Lead poisoning panic; Mobile pedestrians; Banking media.
44 - Episode 44
Air Date: December 10, 2018
Trial by podcast; Pay for access; Karl coverage; #MeToo Christmas.