This episode of Media Watch examines how drug-use revelations levelled at One Nation’s Victorian leader Warren Pickering sparked debate about the effectiveness of ‘gotcha’ journalism.
Plus how the hard-right AfD won a German state election by weaponising mainstream media attacks.
And News24 host James Macpherson issued a correction after mistaking an online comedy sketch for a Seven News report.
Media Watch is the ABC's long-running media accountability program, holding journalists, editors and media organisations, including the ABC, to account. Since 1989, Media Watch has exposed conflicts of interest, factual errors, plagiarism and manipulation across the Australian and international media landscape.
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00:00 Warren Pickering drug-use scandal
06:57 AfD win in Germany
12:31 News24 airs a comedy sketch
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