Listen to Spin Cycle – 17 October 2024∙
Highlights
- Spin Cycle: Tackling Racism in Australian Media with Giridharan Sivaraman
Guest host Emma Buckley Lennox speaks to Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman about the new Race Reporting Handbook (co-published by Media Diversity Australia and the Australian Human Rights Commission). Later in the show, University of Sydney's Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies Dr. Eyal Mayroz talks to Emma about the relationships between Australian public opinion, media and foreign policy responses to genocide and other mass atrocities.
About this program
We live in a media saturated world. The news cycle travels at lightning speed and is impossible to ignore. Spin Cycle aims to make sense of the 24/7 updates and hot takes we are bombarded with from media outlets, politicians and pundits all trying to own the narrative.