Linton Besser (@lb_online) 's Twitter Profile
Linton Besser

@lb_online

Prize-winning reporter, writer, broadcaster. Host of ABC’s Media Watch in 2025. This is a personal account, opinions mine etc. Tips: [email protected]

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It is impossible to understand why President Trump and Vice President Vance seem determined to put more pressure on President Zelensky while they seem to be coddling Putin - the person who inflicted this terrible war in Ukraine.

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Tonight on #MediaWatch: 🎙️ Red card for Marty Sheargold. 📰 ‘The Australian’ newspaper hits publish on fake claims. 🔎 Sky’s Steve Price dusts off his detective cap. 📺 9.15pm ABC TV + iview

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Tonight on #MediaWatch: 🌪️ Ex-Cyclone Alfred sends the media into a whirlwind. 🏠 Labor confuses the media over new housing numbers. 📰 Trump remakes the White House press pool. 📺 9.15pm ABC TV + iview

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Tonight on #MediaWatch: 📰 The Australian’s coal plant claims 🥊 An Aussie billionaire puts on his boxing gloves 👗 Seven’s AI shopping ads 📺 9.15pm ABC TV + iview

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That particular Signal chat, as per Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg , was set up at 16:28 on March 13. Witkoff was wrapping up his Moscow visit then and his plane departed a few hours later. Of course, we don’t know what other USG Signal and WhatsApp groups were running in parallel.

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Today I questioned intelligence officials on the embarrassing, incompetent exposure of plans and deliberations with respect to U.S strikes on Yemen —

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Rahm Emanuel links Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine with Beijing’s decision to conduct a naval exercise in the Tasman Sea, which disrupted Australian air space. Is he right?

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Tonight on #MediaWatch: 🧪 Questionable science on Seven ✈️ Travel insurance to the rescue 🔊 Kyle and Jackie O breached again 📺 9:15pm ABC TV + iview

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#Strata agent featured in #4corners ... abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0… ... is banned for life ... smh.com.au/property/news/…

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Can you imagine the AFP Commissioner or the Secretary of Home Affairs posting something like this? What has happened to America?

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2GB fluffs up a scandal about children dressing up as animals. But are there any facts to substantiate the furore? #MediaWatch

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The challenge for any journalist who accepts such a gift is to not trade it in for their professional obligation to ask the tough questions, canvas inconvenient facts and indeed to bite the hand that feeds them. #MediaWatch