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The 24 hour news cycle: Is it best to always feed the hungry beast?

The 24 hour news cycle: Is it best to always feed the hungry beast?

by Akira Lasker | Dec 22, 2014 | Featured, Smoke & Mirrors

In the wake of the Sydney siege, Akira Laska questions the 24 hour news cycle that has emerged as a consequence of the media digital revolution and how it’s affecting the reporting and reception of news.

S&M: ALP media pulpit will only preach to the converted

S&M: ALP media pulpit will only preach to the converted

by Akira Lasker | May 5, 2014 | Featured, Smoke & Mirrors

All Akira Lasker wants is an impartial media outlet, and yet, even as an ardent ALP supporter, he can only see the proposed ALP news service as #NewsCorpLeft.

How the present Asian century summons the ghost of our White Australia past

by Akira Lasker | Mar 18, 2014 | Featured, The Big Smoke Arena

Akira Lasker has been reading the news headlines and thinks it’s time to sort the fact from the “White Australia” fiction.

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