ENCORE: Journalism Is Dead LIVE SHOW - #StopThePress - 22nd May 2020

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Recorded at our homes over Zoom — pumped through the RØDECaster™ Pro — into your ears.

Recorded August 2019.

Recorded live, in front of a massive SOLD OUT crowd at Giant Dwarf ,some of Australia's best known journalists and a couple of Australia's least known comedians discuss the recent government crackdown on press freedom in Australia. (Waxed balls and All)

Hear what happened to Ray Martin’s interview with a top CIA contact. How Kate McClymont sends a death threat to bikie gangs. Ben Fordham gets his house AFP raid-ready and hides his embarrassing things. Alice Workman tell us what Peter Dutton really thinks about the potato comparisons. Dan Ilic breaches the espionage act live on stage. Lewis Hobba tells us why Seachange is good for democracy, and Greta Lee Jackson from the Australian Federal Police shuts the show down in breach of telling bad facts about the government.

One important takeaway from this episode is that despite the attacks on newsrooms from the Government, journalists are more determined than ever to hold the government to account than ever before — and Kate McClymont identifies as a witch.

Thanks to: DJ Dylan Behan, Greta Lee Jackson, Alison Piorowski, Sandra Sully, Network Ten, Killian David, David Bloustien, James Colley, Kate Holdsworth, Marcel Bracks, FBi Radio, Giant Dwarf, the MEAA, the Walkleys, Sleeping Giant, and GetUp!

00:00 Opening.

01:02 Introductions.

07:13 Press Freedom Discussion.

19:53 Sandra sully’s approved news.

21:20 Whistleblowers.

25:30 Social media policy restrictions.

27:59 Alice Workman vs Michaelia Cash.

36:27 Ben Fordham auctions off his embarrassing shit.

47:016 A Current Affair turn the cameras on the victims of press freedom.

50:11 Kate McClymont and race fixing.

58:50 ABC cuts having an effect already.

1:00:01 Ray martin’s missing CIA interview .

1:08:58 The afp shutdown the show.

1:10:40 AFP #QandA.

1:15:18 Lewis Hobba and why enjoying SeaChange is okay.