Post Script to my story: Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defence www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2853029.htm22 March 2010In Search of Zahir Khan. The ABC TV’s Media Watch program did a take down on SBS TV’s Dateline story about the Afghan scandal as reported by Sophie McNeill. Absolutely hilarious stuff up. The identity of an Afghan man, Zahir Khan, was […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10227 Online Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defenceBy Sasha Uzunov – Tuesday, 30 March 2010 If the media scrutinise the tip of the spear in combat – recent Australian soldiers’ behaviour on the ground in the Afghan war – then they need to scrutinise the spear […]
In 1998, a year before the break out of conflict in East Timor, Lieutenant General Frank Hickling, then Chief of the Australian Army, wisely undid some of the damage caused by defence experts in their running down of the Army’s warfighting capability. It seems the Australian media have failed to scrutinise these “failed defence theorists” […]
With a new Australian television ratings season about to kick-off, the search for the next Jana Wendt, super reporter, continues… ON LINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10004&page=0 Reporting on the reportersBy Sasha Uzunov – Thursday, 4 February 2010 With a new television ratings season dawning on the horizon, some of […]
Exclusive – An Australian Army Reserve Special Forces commando unit has been accused of killing 5 Afghan children in an alleged botched raid…But could political cutbacks, and a short sighted defence policy be the real problems? COMMANDO REGIMENT IN FIRING LINE:“Chocko’s” and coppers hung out to dry? By Sasha Uzunov The Australian Army’s elite reservist […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9728&page=0 ON-LINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of political and social debate. Greens win the war but lose defenceby Sasha Uzunov – November 24, 2009 When prominent Australian youth worker Les Twentyman throws his political weight behind the re-introduction of national service or conscription, you sit up and take notice. Twentyman told the Herald Sun newspaper […]
TEAM UZUNOV POLICY IS TO OPEN UP AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE DEBATE.Therefore, we encourage diversity of opinion on ths issue The host of the ABC TV’s Media Watch, Jonathan Holmes, responds to the TEAM UZUNOV story: ABC-Fairfax hissy fit at Afghan news. MEDIA WATCH DEFENDS PAUL McGEOUGH “ABC and Fairfax big name reporters spit the dummy over […]
WAR & PEACE INCORPORATED By Sasha Uzunov Australia’s big name journalists who write on defence and national security issues have the double advantage of making a lot of money as well as indirectly influencing government policy but without having to face the electors. However, in recent times certain sections of the media have been chucking […]
Australian journalist Sasha Uzunov dressed in local clothing at the monument for CIA operative Johnny “Mike” Spann killed during the Taliban prisoner uprising in November 2001. Qala i Jangi Fort, Mazar i Sharif, Northern Afghanistan 2007. Left to right: Sasha Uzunov, David Pugliese, General Dostum and Scott Taylor. Shiberghan, Northern Afghanistan 2007. DOSTUM IN THE […]
More to SAS-Dutch Afghan story…..Some big name journalists at Fairfax newspapers have a “special licence” or media sheriff’s badge to investigate but freelance journalists are not afforded the same privilege…. It is also called Selective Freedom to Scrutinise Syndrome (SFTSS).read on… Online opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9078&page=0 A special licence […]
