Ettention Please: stories that didn’t get enough coverage this week
More deaths in custody and terrifying new ASIO powers, yet muted (if any) coverage from legacy media.
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Lebanese suffering ignored, Theroux’s ‘manosphere’ doco + is Netanyahu dead?
In this episode Jan Fran and Antoinette examine the devastating attacks on Lebanon and the Lebanese population - and why local media coverage has been strangely quiet.
The stories mainstream media missed this week
From charges against an ICC judge dropped, to BBC journos suing their employer to Murdoch's grubby fingers all over Iran.
Ette's Friday Book Club: March Edition
This month we're spotlighting a tender, cathartic tale and a read that couldn't be further from that
The stories mainstream media missed this week
A roundup of stories ignored by most media this week, and a very personal episode of Only Fran.
I’m an NDIS participant. The media makes me feel like I'm rorting the taxpayer
By Lauren (last name withheld) I am an NDIS participant and neurodivergent, but thanks to an ongoing beat up by Australia’s mainstream media, I hardly touch my approved NDIS funding. This may well please the Australian Financial Review if its latest article demonising Australians living with disability is anything
SMH, The Age Red-Faced over Red Alert
The Nine papers made some very - VERY- alarming predictions three years ago that by now we’d be at war with China. So far, so wrong.
Iran/Israel Op-Eds are sending our WTF-o-meter into overdrive
Opinions published within 24 to 48 hours of a global calamity tend to establish a certain narrative and set the tone for the type of conversation to come and boy does that conversation seem ... bad.
Friday Book Club- FREE TICKETS EDITION
Ette’s resident book worm (no, not me) weighs in with her fave fiction read and I keep it in the family (literally) with this month’s non-fiction recommendation.
ETTE-CLUSIVE: 'I didn’t' - Albanese denies calling Grace Tame ‘difficult’
By Antoinette Lattouf In the hours after the Prime Minister declared Grace Tame was ‘difficult’ during an on-stage word association game with a Herald Sun journalist, Anthony Albanese unconvincingly tries to qualify his controversial comment. In a message exchange seen by Ette Media, a member of the public sent a