Ette Media
@ettemedia
Media literacy and critique that helps you get to the real story created by journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf. Read the news right.
We love to see the other parties scrambling to position themselves in relation to One Nation. 🙃 Here’s the Liberal party’s Andrew Hastie.
As New South Welsh women we can’t possibly comment on the nature of the petition (AHEM) but as media professionals who sometimes get accused of being activists — it's all a bit confusing. IYKYK.
Jan Fran examines the Albanese government’s attempt to sell its federal budget like a brand campaign — inviting influencers to pitch for access to the budget lock-up alongside journalists. What does mean for political media in Australia? LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
A journalist grilled Albanese about Minister for Communications Anika Wells who was forced to repay $10,000 in travel expenses after four breaches of travel rules (including a trip her husband took to the 2025 AFL grand final). His response? To bizarrely side-step into a shoutout to News Corp.
Some publications are using polite language like “boarded” to describe Israel’s illegal actions on the Gaza aid flotilla. The vessels were in international waters and hundreds of kilometres out of Israel's authority.
Jan Fran unpacks a Nine newspapers article headlined “Authorities suspect Gaza war drove Bondi shooter to terror,” interrogating the framing, editorial choices &implications of an investigation built largely on insinuation rather than evidence. LISTEN podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...
While all these reports contain similar information, the details media outlets focus on or foreground in their headlines — their *angle*— is an editorial choice.
Here’s 10 journalist Amelia Brace fact-checking Pauline Hanson’s claim that it cost $300M to pursue a case against accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith. When Hanson made the claim on Sky News, she was left unchallenged.
Not even naming Lebanon or Israel in the headline is diabolical at this point.
At least 260 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to the CPJ, and a further 14 in Lebanon as per the UN. They're not just numbers — they were someone's whole world. The CPJ has called for international authorities to investigate each killing as a war crime.
Israel’s bombardment killed more than 250 Lebanese people and injured at least 1,000 last night. “Humanitarian crisis” is not how we’d describe the mass bombing of civilians of a sovereign nation.
We’re finally getting to a point where news outlets are calling Israel’s invasion of Lebanon what it is. But in the weeks prior (and even now, since some of these phrases were spotted just this week), media went out of its way to avoid calling a spade a spade.
We Used To Be Journos has been shortlisted in not ONE but TWO categories at the very first Australian Audio Awards. We wish the other finalists only a little bit of luck. 😜
The Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman gave a speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday and made some wild claims about the killing of journalists which we can’t quite let go to the keeper.
In this week's episode, Jan and Antoinette push back against blatant hasbara, dive into the Atlas Network and claims of climate disinformation, and applause the writer's festival that stood its ground under pressure to disinvite a Palestinian author. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has hit a record high primary vote in the South Australian election. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Watch the full episode of We Used To Be Journos: youtu.be/lKxJWNBgSAU
The CPJ has called for “an investigation into the apparent targeting” of British correspondent Steve Sweeney and Lebanese camera operator Ali Rida Sbeity, who were injured when an Israeli missile nearly struck them. Only the day before, Israeli strikes killed a Lebanese journalist in Beirut.
22 years after The Kyle and Jackie O Show started, ACMA has issued rules that can suspend or cancel their show for breaches of the Commercial Radio Code of Practice. Except, the regulations don't apply because the show's already been axed and Kyle's contract terminated. Better late than never?
As Israel's “ground campaign” expands both Jan and Antoinette reflect on what it’s been like watching their Old Country destroyed from afar. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
UK's High Court ruled in favour of independent journalist Owen Jones in a defamation case brought by Raffi Berg, BBC news online's Middle East editor, over an article in which Jones alleged that Berg fostered a culture of 'systemic Israeli propaganda'. BBC is yet to report on this development.
Queensland says it's tough on hate speech and arrests an 18-year-old student for wearing a shirt that says "from the river, to the sea." Meanwhile the state's One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson, who said there are no "good" Muslims, remains unscathed and even gets a boost in polling.
A QLD man says he was made to take off his anti-genocide shirt or wear it backwards because it would cause offence. This is off the back of laws passed in QLD, banning the phrases “From the river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada.” Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
You asked, we answered! Introducing OnlyFran (🥵), an additional episode that will go live in the We Used To Be Journos feed every Saturday. First episode drops tomorrow! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Trivialising people being blown up, during a time when Arabs have been blown up daily for at least the past 2.5 years, is how the media helps normalise the killing of Arabs.
Behind every headline cheering on the violence there are human beings who pay the steepest of prices for it,
Jan Fran and Antoinette look at the Australian media’s coverage of the U.S and Israeli attack on Iran and show how a narrative gets set in the first 24-48 hours.
Friendly reminder that Kyle and Jackie O’s very public “fight” just happened to land neatly at the end of the survey ratings period. Funny how that works. Fresh survey starts, show stays top of mind, media froths on cue. Total coincidence, obviously.
You asked, we answered: you can now buy our Etterati merch in classic black and white so they match with everything. Shop at ettemedia.myshopify.com