Media Watch Season 2018

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Season 2018

Air date: 2018-02-05

Episodes: 44

Episodes

E1: Episode 1

Media companies oppose draft laws; Muslim fashion outrage; Nine News for sale

Air date: 2018-02-05

E2: Episode 2

Would you like facts with that?; The Barnaby affair; Cabinet leaks: from scoop to sorry

Air date: 2018-02-12

E3: Episode 3

Turnbull sex ban; Taxing times at the ABC; The RSPCA and public accountability; Back from the future

Air date: 2018-02-19

E4: Episode 4

Wrong picture; 60 Minutes Investigation; Rush v The Daily Telegraph

Air date: 2018-02-26

E5: Episode 5

ABC rallies the troops; Nick Cater’s hypocrisy; Mass shootings covered LIVE; More ads masquerading as news

Air date: 2018-03-05

E6: Episode 6

Herald Sun removes Tessa Sullivan articles; Britain's Sunday Times denies hacking; 'Talking Lifestyle' axed; Studio Ten rips off Today Tonight

Air date: 2018-03-12

E7: Episode 7

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

Air date: 2018-03-19

E8: Episode 8

The latest MH370 theory is full of holes; White privilege outrage; Instagram spruiking; Charity rejects donation from 7's Sunday Night

Air date: 2018-03-26

E9: Episode 9

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

Air date: 2018-04-09

E10: Episode 10

Protesters storm Sunrise, again; Rush v The Daily Telegraph, update; Photoshopping Jen and Brad; Pushing medicinal marijuana

Air date: 2018-04-16

E11: Episode 11

Frontpage Vegemite madness; Royal commission backtrack; Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching; Rush v The Daily Telegraph, update

Air date: 2018-04-23

E12: Episode 12

Nine's ANZAC blunder; Eddie McGuire's fake supplement ad; Glossing over Myanmar; Media drops celebrity financial planner

Air date: 2018-04-30

E13: Episode 13

Press freedom under attack; Sophie Mirabella vs the Benalla Ensign; ABC ruled impartial; Ice Age warning

Air date: 2018-05-07

E14: Episode 14

Budget cuts at ABC; Cambodian press freedom; How to stage a paparazzi pic; Royal Wedding countdown

Air date: 2018-05-14

E15: Episode 15

Royal Wedding capers; Press Council pings Daily Telegraph, again; Reporting on murder suicides; Legal secrets

Air date: 2018-05-21

E16: Episode 16

Pub etiquette, PM falsely accused; Ipswich corruption scandal; Facebook bans Cancer Council poo ads; Photoshopping Jen and Brad, again

Air date: 2018-05-28

E17: Episode 17

Seven's Barnaby flop; Pollies dodging questions; Far right activist Tommy Robinson jailed

Air date: 2018-06-04

E18: Episode 18

Poo jogger; Suicide reporting; Sugar hit; Wagga's paywall rebellion

Air date: 2018-06-11

E19: Episode 19

Qantas 'nosedive'; Alan Jones defamation trial; Killer Instinct undone; Daily Telegraph sells out

Air date: 2018-06-18

E20: Episode 20

Privatising the ABC?

Air date: 2018-06-25

E21: Episode 21

Sky sexism apology; Timor spying; Plastic bag ban; Vale Liz Jackson

Air date: 2018-07-02

E22: Episode 22

Thai Cave Rescue; Fairfax bungle GST; NW - the art of fabrication; Wagga's Daily Advertiser; Not Seven News

Air date: 2018-07-09

E23: Episode 23

Let her work; Basketbrawl fallout; 60 Minutes Dhakota Williams; Herald Sun apology

Air date: 2018-07-16

E24: Episode 24

Sunrise cave theft; Cliff Richard v The BBC; Sleeping Giants rise against Sky; Not on Seven Perth

Air date: 2018-07-23

E25: Episode 25

Media merger; One Big Switch; Out with a bang; Lee Lin Chin signs off

Air date: 2018-07-30

E26: Episode 26

Kyle's media circus; Andrew Bolt's foreigner rant; WIN News runs PR puff; Enough Bags

Air date: 2018-08-06

E27: Episode 27

Sky News backlash; Fairfax v Ben Roberts-Smith; Karl's reef affair; Rush v Daily Telegraph - update

Air date: 2018-08-13

E28: Episode 28

Katter Solution; The Tele’s gender wars; Petulant West Australian; No WIN for Tasmania

Air date: 2018-08-20

E29: Episode 29

How powerful voices in the media waged war on a Prime Minister

Air date: 2018-08-27

E30: Episode 30

Comedy Conviction; Hats off to the new PM; Ramsay St for sale; Playing the man

Air date: 2018-09-03

E31: Episode 31

Bulldog bulldust; Skripal poisoning; Reporting from Nauru; Palmer pushback

Air date: 2018-09-10

E32: Episode 32

Buyer beware; Missing climate; Jones judgement; PR emergency

Air date: 2018-09-17

E33: Episode 33

Guthrie gone; Interview emBRAgoed; 60 Minutes property; Media moguls

Air date: 2018-09-24

E34: Episode 34

ABC chaos, Who dunnit, Tech junkets

Air date: 2018-10-01

E35: Episode 35

Climate calamity; High stakes, Minor debacle

Air date: 2018-10-08

E36: Episode 36

Climate coverage; religious freedom furphy; Goodbye Hendo

Air date: 2018-10-15

E37: Episode 37

Wentworth washup; Wrong police car; Serial prankster; Saudi journalist murdered

Air date: 2018-10-22

E38: Episode 38

Media terror; 'Fair dinkum' power; Geelong nudie run; Royals in Fiji

Air date: 2018-10-29

E39: Episode 39

Fury at the Mail

Air date: 2018-11-05

E40: Episode 40

Missing Mark; True-blue ScoMo; Media freeze; Cancer confusion.

Air date: 2018-11-12

E41: Episode 41

Bali virus beat-up; Trump v CNN; Police PR; Small store, big hype

Air date: 2018-11-19

E42: Episode 42

Chasing Renae; SA press freedom; Dirty tricks fallout; Roast Lamb

Air date: 2018-11-26

E43: Episode 43

Milne v Guthrie; Lead poisoning panic; Mobile pedestrians; Banking media.

Air date: 2018-12-03

E44: Episode 44

Trial by podcast; Pay for access; Karl coverage; #MeToo Christmas.

Air date: 2018-12-10