SPECIAL EPISODE: Is The Joke Mightier Than The Pen?

🎧 NEW LIVE PODCAST: Jan Fran, Cathy Wilcox, Ben Jenkins, Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba & Dylan Behan

G’day Fearmongers —

It is with great thanks to the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas we can bring you this excellent conversation about satire and journalism.

Can satire change the world? Never.
Can satire be more powerful than journalism? Doubtful.
Can satire be journalism? Probably not.

Australia’s top satirists will ask themselves these questions and come up with the same answers during a special live event from A Rational Fear and JNI.

In this episode of A Rational Fear some of Australia’s most available smart arses wrangle with their (questionable) career choices and take a deep dive into satire’s ability to replace journalists at half the price.

Featuring cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, Dylan Behan (Newsfighters), Jan Fran (The Project), Ben Jenkins (The Feed), Lewis Hobba (Triple J), and Dan Ilic (A Rational Fear).

Check out the photos below the podcast links 📸 👇

📺 You can watch the whole video of this even exclusively on the A Rational Fear Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear or keep an eye on the @ARationalFear socials for 1 min snippets over the next few weeks.

Big thanks to everyone at JNI who helped us pull it together.

Cheers

Dan Ilic

PODCAST LINKS:

Intellectual Giants: The A Rational Fear Team. Lewis Hobba, Jan Fran, Ben Jenkins, Cathy Wilcox, Sarah Doyle, Dan Ilic, Dylan Behan.

Lewis Hobba probably laughing at his own joke

Deep in contemplation — Dan Ilic realises his career is a scam.

Cathy Wilcox puts a call into her broker to sell her Nine shares.

Ben Jenkins explaining the difference between a spicy meatball and regular meatball.

Jan Fran and her pre-calling bullshit face.

Dan Ilic hands the result of the Satire vs Journalism debate to an Australia Post representative who will hand deliver it to the Governor General.

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Thanks:

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