gatewatching

Pip Starr was a Melbourne activist filmmaker. He made powerful, intense documentaries about injustice. His documentary, Through the Wire is a heartbreaking account of the Woomera protests and a powerful indictment of Australia’s policy of compulsory detention of asylum seekers.

As Posted on the ABC’s Opinion Website last Friday - we’d welcome further comments.
Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news.
The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who exactly has the mortgage on punditry about established stories, social [...]

It looks like there are a good half dozen edited collections about citizen journalism that are currently under development; some of them are probably spurred on by the impending U.S. presidential election and the role that news bloggers and citizen journalists will undoubtedly play in it, but I’m also aware of collections being developed as [...]