Season 2021

E1. Episode 1

Feb 1, 2021 · 15m

How the ABC stuffed up Australia Day, Australia's rudest columnist gets zapped and inspiring stories of weight loss, but reader beware.

E2. Episode 2

Feb 8, 2021 · 15m

Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing awarded $590,000 in a defamation case against the ABC and Nine over a 2017 Four Corners story. Facebook and Google look for compromise over the news media bargaining code. Federal MP Craig Kelly’s COVID-19 misinformation and the friendly media who spread his message.

E3. Episode 3

Feb 15, 2021 · 15m

Mums cancelled?; Tabloid treatment; Fox News defamation.

E4. Episode 4

Feb 22, 2021 · 15m

Vaccine pitch; Facebook’s blackout; Bolt’s Cooked complaint.

E5. Episode 5

Mar 1, 2021 · 15m

Facebook pay; Deflect and reject.

E6. Episode 6

Mar 8, 2021 · 15m

Christian Porter has denied an allegation, outlined in an anonymous letter, that he raped a woman in 1988. Has the media coverage been reckless or reasonable? Is it trial by media? Would an inquiry throw light on what happened? A Media Watch special.

E7. Episode 7

Mar 15, 2021 · 15m

Royal ‘bombshell’; Lawless John Laws; Journalist F; Copyright Affair; Porter sues ABC.

E8. Episode 8

Mar 22, 2021 · 15m

Porter v ABC; Sexy snaps; Racist comment; Demon clickbait.

E9. Episode 9

Mar 29, 2021 · 15m

Triple M shockers; Jeremy Cordeaux axed; ACA - not the full story; Morrow’s mistake.

E10. Episode 10

Apr 12, 2021 · 15m

Vaccine scaremongering; Mal’s discontent; Holy Aunty!; Terrorist propaganda.

E11. Episode 11

Apr 19, 2021 · 16m

Twerked off; Ben Roberts-Smith v Nine; Fairy bread fake; Reporters under fire.

E12. Episode 12

Apr 26, 2021 · 15m

Royal twaddle; Latham's playbook; The housing game.

E13. Episode 13

May 3, 2021 · 15m

Secret prince?; India’s COVID censorship; NY Post lie; Farewell Phil.

E14. Episode 14

May 10, 2021 · 15m

India jail threat; Telegraph mistake; Health inquiry ignored; Motherly mistake.

E15. Episode 15

May 17, 2021 · 15m

COVID patient named; China’s ‘Virus Warfare’; Gaza media targeted; V’landys v ABC.

E16. Episode 16

May 24, 2021 · 15m

COVID nonsense; Herald Sun says No; Collaery’s secret trial; BBC Diana scandal.

E17. Episode 17

May 31, 2021 · 15m

Porter ABC settlement; Greg hunted; Regional news shutdown; AFL copy and paste; McLachlan v ABC.

E18. Episode 18

Jun 7, 2021 · 15m

ABC Porter defence; ABC QAnon; Jones’ old tricks; Mice march?

E19. Episode 19

Jun 14, 2021 · 15m

War hero trial; Harvey Norman mystery; Palmer's dangerous ads; Toobin's return.

E20. Episode 20

Jun 21, 2021 · 15m

friendlyjordies arrest; Dark Emu debate; Tackling mistruths; Ronaldo Coke fizzer.

E21. Episode 21

Jun 28, 2021 · 15m

COVID shutdown; Chinese defector?; China media strike; WHO booze ban.

E22. Episode 22

Jul 5, 2021 · 15m

Vaccine beat-ups; COVID driver; Local news cuts.

E23. Episode 23

Jul 12, 2021 · 15m

Pfizer spin; UNESCO, the reef & China; Shock jock coup; Choc top media.

E24. Episode 24

Jul 19, 2021 · 15m

Hopkins cancelled; Dangerous and misleading; Albo’s secret trip.

E25. Episode 25

Jul 26, 2021 · 15m

Palaszczuk’s Olympic storm; ScoMo’s ‘sorry’; Who’s interview?; Anti-sex Olympics.

E26. Episode 26

Aug 2, 2021 · 15m

Olympic hurdles; Craig Kelly falsehoods; Greyhound mystery.

E27. Episode 27

Aug 9, 2021 · 15m

Bol’s ‘refugee camp’; Vax push; List of shame; Mafia misfire (with guest host Jeremy Fernandez)

E28. Episode 28

Aug 16, 2021 · 15m

Costly tweet; Clive's campaign; Q+A 'code red'; Paramount spruik. Guest host Janine Perrett brings you a fearless critique of the week's journalism.

E29. Episode 29

Aug 23, 2021 · 15m

Taliban media; COVID curfew; Pub COVID shamed; Page 3 girls; Tabloid Tinder trick. Presented by guest host Janine Perrett.

E30. Episode 30

Aug 30, 2021 · 15m

Wrong explosion; ABC Ghost Train review; Brands v brands. Presented by Paul Barry.