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Episode 1
Episode number: 1
Overview: In the Alice in Wonderland world of fake news and alternative facts, what can the media do in search for the truth?
Episode 2
Episode number: 2
Overview: 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
Episode 3
Episode number: 3
Overview: Not just fake news but no news; Sex, lies and injunctions; Court copy cats caught out; James Hird and the 'female friend'
Episode 4
Episode number: 4
Overview: 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
Episode 5
Episode number: 5
Overview: The new Italian Astronaut; Travel tales too good to be true?; Peter Dutton, next Liberal leader? And Karl coverage overload
Episode 6
Episode number: 6
Overview: Exclusive interview or airport ambush?; Controversial claims get the soft treatment; Punchbowl story missing in action; Satirical protest taken seriously; BBC interview interrupted
Episode 7
Episode number: 7
Overview: 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
Episode 8
Episode number: 8
Overview: 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.
Episode 9
Episode number: 9
Overview: Latham lessons not learnt; Media love a miracle; First on Nine five years late and Cyclone Debbie coverage
Episode 10
Episode number: 10
Overview: What lies beneath; Media war over Syria; Internal war at News Corp and Red faces over blushing bride story
Episode 11
Episode number: 11
Overview: Close call; Going for gold; Putin critics pay with lives and Prime time PR puff
Episode 12
Episode number: 12
Overview: Anzac Day outrage; News sites spinning Reddit rubbish; What next for Channel 10? And Paul Antonopoulos forced out
Episode 13
Episode number: 13
Overview: Royal rumour runs rife; Fairfax cuts hit hard and 100 days of discord
Episode 14
Episode number: 14
Overview: 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
Episode 15
Episode number: 15
Overview: Snot right: bogus boogers beat-up; ‘Fake’ Sheikh of shock; Not so new at The Australian; Good Crinkling News
Episode 16
Episode number: 16
Overview: The Schapelle Corby media circus; The column that really bombed; Alan Jones, pick and stick
Episode 17
Episode number: 17
Overview: Minor voice given a megaphone; Daily Mail, how low can you go?; Australian Press Council v News Corp; Snakes in a car again
Episode 18
Episode number: 18
Overview: Corby keeps the media guessing; Adani still not a done deal; High flying plans don’t add up; Breitbart loses its bite
Episode 19
Episode number: 19
Overview: No loss of shock jock energy; Rebel with a cause to celebrate; Sky's the limit for Channel Ten
Episode 20
Episode number: 20
Overview: Lotto winners and lazy journalism; Scoring points from Grenfell fire ; 'Apex gang' spotted in Newcastle; What's old is new on Sunday Night
Episode 21
Episode number: 21
Overview: 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
Episode 22
Episode number: 22
Overview: 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
Episode 23
Episode number: 23
Overview: 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
Episode 24
Episode number: 24
Overview: Rainbow stars in Greens exit; An unholy row; Exploiting tragedy for column inches; Ray's Scomo spray
Episode 25
Episode number: 25
Overview: The Pell show comes to town; Super spruikers; Dual citizenship duel; Flying dry
Episode 26
Episode number: 26
Overview: Reporting on terror raids; Abbott speaks and media repeats; Goodbye to a veteran
Episode 27
Episode number: 27
Overview: Teflon John and his media mates; Same Sex marriage frustration; Nightline kills the radio star; Memo to Mitch Fifield
Episode 28
Episode number: 28
Overview: Media reform battles on; Jumping the gun on a medical breakthrough; Flash mob to cash in; More perils of live TV
Episode 29
Episode number: 29
Overview: A monumental beat up; Same-Sex Campaign; Campaign clanger; Misplaced map outrage
Episode 30
Episode number: 30
Overview: The missing flood story; Reheating Christmas carols outrage; Media marriage friction; Today starts a war
Episode 31
Episode number: 31
Overview: Spot the Tassie Tiger; A matter of trust; Too much publicity is never enough; A picture tells the wrong story
Episode 32
Episode number: 32
Overview: Rebel gets the last laugh; The power of Kmart mums; Media reforms gets green light; Malley's media adventure
Episode 33
Episode number: 33
Overview: Red faces over Roberts reversal; Spruiking supplements; Spot the sponsored content; TV tantrums
Episode 34
Episode number: 34
Overview: Same Love stoush; Seven has more PR woes; Today loves Australia, for a fee
Episode 35
Episode number: 35
Overview: Las Vegas massacre drives fake news; ABC defends correspondent from Federal MP's attack ads; Northern Star HPV headline wrong
Episode 36
Episode number: 36
Overview: The politics of Weinstein; Silencing Ray's spray; Media stays mum; Ipswich or Karachi?
Episode 37
Episode number: 37
Overview: Melania body double bubble; Lisa Walks; Junketing journalists; Christmas in Macau
Episode 38
Episode number: 38
Overview: Citizenship Seven coverage; Raids, leaks and sources; Confessions of a homegrown 'terrorist'; Bushie's irony alert backfires
Episode 39
Episode number: 39
Overview: Citizenship saga bites troubled Turnbull; Media missing on Manus; Deadly treadlies; Facebook fesses up
Episode 40
Episode number: 40
Overview: Sorry, no summary available for this episode!
Episode 41
Episode number: 41
Overview: Channel Ten's disservice to the west; The Latham vs Faruqi showdown; All aboard the election bus; Richo bemused by the Paradise Papers
Episode 42
Episode number: 42
Overview: QLD Election Coverage; Don Burke allegations; John-Michael Howson's tirade; Karl's 'gotcha' fail
Episode 43
Episode number: 43
Overview: The rush to convict Geoffrey Rush; The sting that stung; Perth to Baku; Lateline signs off
Episode 44
Episode number: 44
Overview: A costly Rush?; Stirring up Milo fever; Superstorm hype runs out of puff; Media Watch – 2017 highlights