# Paul Mottram

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Modi, Telstra & Iran’s Martyr Machine

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at how disasters become PR opportunities. Telstra somehow fixes a nationwide outage by creating another one, Narendra Modi gets the rock-star treatment in Melbourne while human rights concerns barely get a mention, and China reminds the Pacific what "friend…

Reading Between The Headlines

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah follows two news stories through the online outrage machine. An ABC report about climate disasters increasing the risk of child marriage becomes “the ABC defends Muslim child brides”. Meanwhile, a review of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Gaza casualty data…

Rise of the Cockroaches

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah follows India’s Cockroach Janta Party from a Supreme Court insult and viral meme to mass youth protests over examination leaks, unemployment and corruption. How did a cockroach holding a mobile phone become the symbol of a generation losing faith in education, em…

Kmart Keating, Douglas Murray's wet dream & Hamas’s Gun Garage

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah watches Victorian Labor replace Jacinta Allan with her own deputy and announce a fresh start from inside the same government. Meanwhile, tens of thousands cross from Morocco into Spain’s African enclave of Ceuta, producing a humanitarian emergency, unstable stati…

The Story Machine: AI, Fabulism & What We’re Really Buying

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah goes long on artificial intelligence, authenticity and the increasingly difficult question: how was this thing actually made? From Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s disputed biography and Mahmood Fazal’s anonymous-source scandal at the ABC, to novelist Jerry Fala…

What Is The Sentence?

NEWS WEAKLY 226 – What Is The Sentence? Last week, News Weakly opened with Jason Arday. This week, after his sudden death, Sami Shah asks a harder question: what is public accountability actually supposed to achieve? From Arday to Louis C.K., Warren Ellis and Neil Gaiman, this documentary looks at …

The End of the World with Flared Pants

Everyone agrees the world is ending. The only disagreement is which catastrophe gets top billing. Starting with Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “crisis of confidence” speech, Sami Shah travels through Bangladesh, Munich, Chile, Watergate, oil shocks, coups, terrorism, information overload and nuclear panic to …

Getting Shot: Antisemitism and the Loyalty Test

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah revisits a 2022 argument about the Sydney Festival boycott after The Shot brands him a “liberal Zionist coward” for criticising two of its headlines as demonstrations of antisemitism. From Israel and Gaza to Mossad-payroll conspiracies, white saviour politics, au…

The Blast Radius: How 9/11 Remade Pakistan

Twenty-five years after 9/11, everyone knows where Ground Zero was. But where did the blast radius end? This special edition of News Weakly follows one country through the aftermath: Pakistan. From the CIA-backed Afghan jihad and the rise of the Taliban, through Musharraf’s alliance with George W. …

Australia’s New Student Visa Rules, Nyadol Nyuon & Macklemore’s Palestine Controversy

This week on News Weakly: Tony Burke tells international students to leave the family at home, while British backpackers discover the migration system has a loyalty program. Also, Nyadol Nyuon gets Yassmined for saying she has no intention of assimilating, despite apparently doing more for Australi…