How has Christianity gone from a government-enforced requirement on Australian television to the 4am American televangelists we have now?

The Fourth Estate speaks to Dr Peter Horsfield, an Associate Professor in RMIT's Communications Department and an expert on religion and the media.

This week on the Fourth Estate, we break down misconceptions about the way Australians use pronography and we speak to the CEO of a new national indigenous broadcaster, NITV.

A new study on pornography in Australia has unearthed some interesting findings that break many stereotypes.

Shamin Fernando speaks to Cath Albury, a researcher in Media and Communications at Sydney University, about the research.

Next month a new national Indigenous television service will begin, initially on the Imparja channel and then later on pay tv.

The Fourth Estate speaks to the CEO of NITV Pat Turner, about what the service aims to achieve.

This week on the Fourth Estate, we look at objectivity in documentary making with a focus on a new docmentary critical of Michael Moore, and we look at the challenges faced by community television.

As we move closer towards digital broadcasting, community television providers face a range of financial challenges that could make them extinct.

Peter Lane, the Chairman of C31 in Melbourne, speaks to the Fourth Estate.

As Michael Moore's new film Sicko nears its release, the Fourth Estate looks at the problem of objectivity in documentary filmaking. A new anti-Michael Moore documentary has also just been made, called Manufacturing Dissent, and Shamin Fernando talks to Alec Morgan, lecturer in Film Studies at Macquarie University, about objectivity.

This week on the Fourth Estate, we find out why the media is uniting for free speech, we look at a campaign to include ordinary people in the election, we examine Apple's green credentials and we discuss community radio's digital future.

Last week representatives of the mainstream media joined to together to launch a campaign against increasing restrictions on free speech.
The heads of News Limited, Farifax, the ABC, Free TV Australia and Commercial radio ceased their regular hostilities to highlight what they say are increasing limits on their ability to report.
The issues of concern include ineffective Freedom of Information laws, increasing numbers of court suppression orders and restrictive counter-terrorism laws.

The Fourth Estate speaks to Greg Baxter, Head of Corporate Affairs for News Limited, about what he hopes the campaign will achieve.

Ordinary citizens are being encouraged to make 30-second political ads for the upcoming election, as part of a campaign by lobby group GetUp.
The aim is for people to make ads about their ideas or thoughts on political issues, and the ads will be broadcast on television and YouTube.

Shamin Fernando speaks to Dr Linda Leung, from the Institute of Interactive Learning at UTS, about wheather the idea has merit.