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Episode 1
Episode number: 1
Overview: Paul Barry returns for a new season of Media Watch. The front runners for the ABC chair, who is most likely? Plus coal dust printed word for word in the Newcastle Herald.
Episode 2
Episode number: 2
Overview: Is there no end to Clive Palmer's media blitz? Plus a failure to disclose by Sunrise's David Koch.
Episode 3
Episode number: 3
Overview: No love for Married At First Sight as former cast members reveal the ugly reality behind the TV blockbuster. Plus boats, borders and truthful reporting.
Episode 4
Episode number: 4
Overview: The Daily Telegraph apologises for front page story on Today host Georgie Gardner. Plus the Herald Sun wins the right to reveal who is Lawyer X.
Episode 5
Episode number: 5
Overview: Journalists facing threats of jail over Pell headlines as the media debate his guilt. The Momo Challenge hoax, plus Ita Buttrose named Chair of the ABC.
Episode 6
Episode number: 6
Overview: 60 Minutes caught out - can you believe their denial. Plus PM Scott Morrison's campaign trip to Christmas Island.
Episode 7
Episode number: 7
Overview: Paul Barry presents a special on the Christchurch terror attack. How should the media deal with live-streamed terrorism? And will it change how social media platforms police hate speech?
Episode 8
Episode number: 8
Overview: Demonising Muslims, encouraging extremism, is the media to blame? And why no tough questions for Mark Latham's plan to DNA test 'indigenous welfare rorters'?
Episode 9
Episode number: 9
Overview: One Nation sting: unfair entrapment or legitimate expose? Our verdict on Al Jazeera's investigation. Did it go too far? Plus alarming Adelaide a story so big no one could report it.
Episode 10
Episode number: 10
Overview: Paul Barry looks at some of the big issues in media in the past seven days including election countdown, social media crackdown, The Cass tape and journo jail threats.
Episode 11
Episode number: 11
Overview: Rush verdict; The electric election; Ristevski murder.
Episode 12
Episode number: 12
Overview: Facebook 'under fire' for its fake scam ads. The Daily Telegraph 'under fire' for its coverage of Labor’s 'gender agenda'. Plus journalists 'under fire' from their own campaign cliche. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 13
Episode number: 13
Overview: Milo Yiannopoulos. Alex Jones. Breast cancer awareness. What do these three things have in common? And The Cat bags the rural press more money for country news? Or a slimming down of regional newsrooms?
Episode 14
Episode number: 14
Overview: Election battleground; News vs Bill Shorten; All about the image and Ads on Aunty. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 15
Episode number: 15
Overview: Front-page scares and catchphrases: How did the media shape the election result? Duelling exclusives: A Nine exclusive that looks and sounds awfully similar to Sevens. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 16
Episode number: 16
Overview: Albo goes to bat against Labor's conservative foes; Alan Jones buries the hatchet with Clive Palmer and a big pay day for Geoffrey Rush. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 17
Episode number: 17
Overview: Did the ABC get strong-armed by Adani? Julian Assange: hero of the free press or cyber terrorist? Plus a stem cell miracle cure that has the media in a spin. Presented by Paul Barry.
Media raids
Episode number: 18
Overview: A Media Watch feature report on police raids targeting News Corp and ABC journalists.
Episode 19
Episode number: 19
Overview: Credlin and Adani; Sunday Night woes and Credit card munch. Presented by Paul Barry
Episode 20
Episode number: 20
Overview: Nuclear debate; IKEA spruikers; Court dismissed. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 21
Episode number: 21
Overview: Gleeson's Gold; Facebook defamation; Plastic bag panic; Bulger killer. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 22
Episode number: 22
Overview: Game, set, match, Kyrgios; Media Raids update; Cash for case studies; Wawa revelation. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 23
Episode number: 23
Overview: Four Corners' water splash; Paradise lost; Solar stunner; Housing affordable and Love Boat tour. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 24
Episode number: 24
Overview: Moon landing hoax; Journalist Information Warrants; Pauline and Uluru; MasterChef scandal. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 25
Episode number: 25
Overview: ABC blunders; Au revoir, press freedom; TV underbelly and interview interrupted. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 26
Episode number: 26
Overview: Bolt vs Thunberg; Krokodil hysteria; BuzzFeed says sorry and Council media. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 27
Episode number: 27
Overview: Hong Kong chaos; TV news likes Facebook; plus US guns and games. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 28
Episode number: 28
Overview: Alan Jones socked by his own punch. The Australian steps up its negative coverage of transgender issues. Plus what does press freedom look like? Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 29
Episode number: 29
Overview: Mattress mayhem; Attack, apologise, attack again; 5G fears; Ben Simmons - friend or foe?
Episode 30
Episode number: 30
Overview: Trash talk; Reef attack; Block ads; Trump Derangement Syndrome. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 31
Episode number: 31
Overview: 'Independent. Always'; 60 Minutes v Meghan Markle; Roasting vegans; Letters galore. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 32
Episode number: 32
Overview: Climate fire; Media pressure; Jones' review; and Great grout. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 33
Episode number: 33
Overview: Conversation stopper; ABC wrong on Price; Driving subs and Murray's Trump card. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 34
Episode number: 34
Overview: PM sledges media over climate; Mayor & the media; Brand expose; Sorry Sandilands. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 35
Episode number: 35
Overview: Trump gets censored. Adios Sunday Night. Vaping donations go undisclosed. The Phantom of the Internet returns.
Episode 36
Episode number: 36
Overview: Speed bump jokers; Sky's drought hero; Perils of speaking out; MasterChef predictions. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 37
Episode number: 37
Overview: Horse deaths; Fury over Farrow; Cash for controversy. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 38
Episode number: 38
Overview: Whodunnit? The mysterious tale of Minister Angus Taylor, the dodgy document and The Daily Telegraph. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 39
Episode number: 39
Overview: The sad story of Ashleigh Petrie; Risky butt lifts; Real estate fiction. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 40
Episode number: 40
Overview: Q&A fury; Facebook scams hurt; Today repeats. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 41
Episode number: 41
Overview: Fire haze; Judicial slap down; Nova's c-bomb. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 42
Episode number: 42
Overview: Farewell Today Tonight; Pacific/China media; The Australian defends Plimer; Drover's smoko. Presented by Paul Barry.
Episode 43
Episode number: 43
Overview: Medevac media; FOI failure; Anti-vaxxers on Aunty; Mags royal mania. Presented by Paul Barry. (Final for 2019)