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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s metamedia program Mediawatch is a fantastic check on the flagorant inaccuracies, bias, and scaremongering in Australian media. “Jihad Jack”, the first Australian convicted under the recently introduced Anti-Terror laws (which included anti-sedition censorship), has recently been released after a confession he made in Pakistan was found to have been made under threat of tourure. Mediawatch examines the new sources reactions to this, as well as implications of News is the age of Terror, Fear, and protection of Democracy by self-destruction. It refers exlicitly to Australian news sources and their positions, but these will be familiar enough in your own country’s media to find interesting.

The article is a transcript of video available on the Mediawatch site, but unfortunately it cannot be linked to directly.