Up the Creek!

Reputation Eye Awards 2023

Mark Forbes and Benjamin Haslem dissect crises and recovery attempts, revealing the 2023 Reputation Eye awards, including the infamous Brown Eye for the PR fail of the year.

Weapons of Mass Distraction

We dissect the ongoing controversy over invading Iraq based on false warnings of weapons of mass destruction, resurfaced by the mysterious disappearance of key intelligence assessments. We hear new revelations from Mark Forbes, who, as a journalist, was enmeshed in the affair after reporting an intelligence chief said the WMDs didn’t exist.

Sex, Drugs and the Defamation Toll

Our verdicts on the remarkable media revelations and reputational carnage from Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation action against Channel 10.

Gina Rinehart and the Streisand Effect

Up The Creek! dissects Gina Reinhart’s enlistment of her sponsored swimmers to demand the removal of an “offensive” portrait from the National Gallery - demonstrating the ‘Streisand effect’ where attempted suppression only publicises. We also observe the Liberal Party scoring another own goal with women, and the sodden schmozzle of the UK Conservative’s election campaign.
 
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Dutton Goes Nuclear

Up The Creek! Analyses Peter Dutton’s pitch to take Australia nuclear and why Labor is responding with 3-eyed fish memes, the circus of Julian Assange’s flight to freedom and the debacle of Joe Biden’s presidential debate - asking ask if Americans will choose the clown or the cadaver?
 
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Media v Media

This month Up the Creek! examines current media conflicts including Four Corners targeting Channel Seven and the reputational implications of constant media conflicts over culture, coverage and high-stakes defamation cases. We dissect Australia’s most besieged organisation, the CFMEU, and racism complaints casting a shadow over the AFL.

Up The Creek Ep 7:

Crisis experts Mark Forbes and Benjamin Haslem reveal their 2024 Up the Creek! awards, including the coveted Golden Eye for turning a pr sow’s ear into a silk purse and the Brown Eye for fail of the year.Across the PR and media landscape contenders include airlines, supermarkets, a rock icon, high profile radio stars and a disgraced shock jock.