Samuel L Jackson scolds a journalist for confusing the actor with fellow African American, Laurence Fishburne, writes Dylan Walton.
Only months after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Oriana Fallaci grills the newly appointed leader, writes Shahin Mehrkhavari.
In Princess Diana’s interview with Martin Bashir, she responds to rumours about her lovers and mental illness, writes Jasmine Woods.
Samuel L Jackson scolds a journalist for confusing the actor with fellow African American, Laurence Fishburne, writes Dylan Walton.
Only months after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Oriana Fallaci grills the newly appointed leader, writes Shahin Mehrkhavari.
In Princess Diana’s interview with Martin Bashir, she responds to rumours about her lovers and mental illness, writes Jasmine Woods.
Australia’s appetite for reality television has yet to be sated, with the finale of MasterChef attracting more than four-million viewers. While many critics dismiss the reality genre as brainless and moronic, Gulsum Unal argues that there’s good reasons why so many of us enjoy watching it.
Millions of people across Asia gathered to witness the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century. Steve Goddard was one of them.
20 years after the first Hottest 100, Lawrie Zion tried to predict this year’s top 20. Now he’s taking a stab at guessing what’s going to top the chart in nine years time.
As mystery continues to build around just which songs will make it into the Top 20 of Triple J’s Hottest 100 of all time, Lawrie Zion tries to second-guess the results of the election we love to vote in. And he reckons the two top spots will be taken up by a pair of songs that dominated the first three Hottest 100s.
As Christian Lander’s book Stuff White People Like has shown, there’s nothing more that white people like than reading about the unique foibles of millions of white people around the globe. But what about if you happen to live in Melbourne? How do you know if you’re a Melbourne white person? Christopher Scanlon has prepared the following guide to being a white person in Melbourne
A group of La Trobe students are making the transition from radio to TV with The Naughty Rude Show. And first-year student Dylan Leach hopes to graduate in dating by the end of the year.
They don’t make years like 1989 anymore. In that year, the Wall came down, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest, and then-Australian PM Bob Hawke wept on national television as he admitted to marital infidelity. At Triple J, a young, fresh-faced broadcaster had an idea…
La Trobe University lecturer John Tebbutt takes a peek behind the headlines at the story of the Balibo five.
Since 2003, media studies students at La Trobe have been building a directory website, the Melbourne Media Map which offers a wealth of information about the media in Melbourne and its environs. Dr Mary Debrett puts us in the picture.
Imagine you’re walking along minding your own business when men in black wearing Timberland boots suddenly accost you. They bundle you into the back of a van where they cut your clothes from your body using scissors, and force you to put on a diaper and a blue tracksuit.
Say what you will about Malcolm Gladwell, but there’s no doubting the man’s impeccable timing — and his capacity for turning the bleeding obvious into gold writes Christopher Scanlon
