Media Watch Season 2017

In the Alice in Wonderland world of fake news and alternative facts, what can the media do in search for the truth?

Melania Trump v Daily Mail; The Daily Mail and gang misappropriation; The Phantom of the Internet rebooted; How Good Game ran out of lives; Another inappropriate rant by Ross

Not just fake news but no news; Sex, lies and injunctions; Court copy cats caught out; James Hird and the 'female friend'

Coke Fizzer. Coke closes its Adelaide bottling plant; A Current Affair's life changing ADHD treatment - that doesn't work; Keysar Trad flies under the ABC radar; A new front in Trump’s media war

The new Italian Astronaut; Travel tales too good to be true?; Peter Dutton, next Liberal leader? And Karl coverage overload

Exclusive interview or airport ambush?; Controversial claims get the soft treatment; Punchbowl story missing in action; Satirical protest taken seriously; BBC interview interrupted

Weatherill v Frydenberg showdown; Clean and green or toxic and deadly?; Singo making Gosford great again, with a little help from his friends and Sky News civil war

Paparazzi, privacy and the Press Council; Great Barrier grief missing from The Australian; Two cities, one prize on Nova stations and Exclusive: Darren Davidson predictions.

Latham lessons not learnt; Media love a miracle; First on Nine five years late and Cyclone Debbie coverage

What lies beneath; Media war over Syria; Internal war at News Corp and Red faces over blushing bride story

Close call; Going for gold; Putin critics pay with lives and Prime time PR puff

Anzac Day outrage; News sites spinning Reddit rubbish; What next for Channel 10? And Paul Antonopoulos forced out

Royal rumour runs rife; Fairfax cuts hit hard and 100 days of discord

Seven and Nine both first with the news; BrickX stories lack scrutiny; The necklace that stole the story; Jobs and growth but not for Fairfax and Mark Colvin 1952 – 2017

Snot right: bogus boogers beat-up; ‘Fake’ Sheikh of shock; Not so new at The Australian; Good Crinkling News

The Schapelle Corby media circus; The column that really bombed; Alan Jones, pick and stick

Minor voice given a megaphone; Daily Mail, how low can you go?; Australian Press Council v News Corp; Snakes in a car again

Corby keeps the media guessing; Adani still not a done deal; High flying plans don’t add up; Breitbart loses its bite

No loss of shock jock energy; Rebel with a cause to celebrate; Sky's the limit for Channel Ten

Lotto winners and lazy journalism; Scoring points from Grenfell fire ; 'Apex gang' spotted in Newcastle; What's old is new on Sunday Night

Paul Murray's spectacular Sky dummy spit; The Australian's cock-up trifecta; Roxy Jacenko cashing in on media obsession; The slow death of community television; Donald Trump's new fake media smackdown

State of play, news media versus the digital giants Amid a Senate inquiry, a Media Watch special on how Facebook and Google have damaged and might save journalism

Iceberg ahoy!; Amazon is coming; Non apology of the week from the Daily Telegraph; TV news turns off the Top End; International journalism award axed

Rainbow stars in Greens exit; An unholy row; Exploiting tragedy for column inches; Ray's Scomo spray

The Pell show comes to town; Super spruikers; Dual citizenship duel; Flying dry

Reporting on terror raids; Abbott speaks and media repeats; Goodbye to a veteran

Teflon John and his media mates; Same Sex marriage frustration; Nightline kills the radio star; Memo to Mitch Fifield

Media reform battles on; Jumping the gun on a medical breakthrough; Flash mob to cash in; More perils of live TV

A monumental beat up; Same-Sex Campaign; Campaign clanger; Misplaced map outrage

The missing flood story; Reheating Christmas carols outrage; Media marriage friction; Today starts a war

Spot the Tassie Tiger; A matter of trust; Too much publicity is never enough; A picture tells the wrong story

Rebel gets the last laugh; The power of Kmart mums; Media reforms gets green light; Malley's media adventure

Red faces over Roberts reversal; Spruiking supplements; Spot the sponsored content; TV tantrums

Same Love stoush; Seven has more PR woes; Today loves Australia, for a fee

Las Vegas massacre drives fake news; ABC defends correspondent from Federal MP's attack ads; Northern Star HPV headline wrong

The politics of Weinstein; Silencing Ray's spray; Media stays mum; Ipswich or Karachi?

Melania body double bubble; Lisa Walks; Junketing journalists; Christmas in Macau

Citizenship Seven coverage; Raids, leaks and sources; Confessions of a homegrown 'terrorist'; Bushie's irony alert backfires

Citizenship saga bites troubled Turnbull; Media missing on Manus; Deadly treadlies; Facebook fesses up

Sorry, no summary available for this episode!

Channel Ten's disservice to the west; The Latham vs Faruqi showdown; All aboard the election bus; Richo bemused by the Paradise Papers

QLD Election Coverage; Don Burke allegations; John-Michael Howson's tirade; Karl's 'gotcha' fail

The rush to convict Geoffrey Rush; The sting that stung; Perth to Baku; Lateline signs off

A costly Rush?; Stirring up Milo fever; Superstorm hype runs out of puff; Media Watch – 2017 highlights