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Malcolm, Gough and Rural Law? I don’t think so…

March 8, 2009 – 5:44 pm

Readers of the Rewind feature in this weekend’s  Sunday Life Magazine (distributed in the Sunday Age and Sun Herald) might have been surprised to see Malcolm Fraser apparently assert that he and Gough Whitlam agreed on “rural law”. Which law would that be? Speed limits on the open road? No cattle duffing? No singlets in [...]

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Backman DOES NOT Blame the Subs

January 23, 2009 – 12:32 pm

As reported in the Crikey e-mail today, Michael Backman has written to Jewish community leaders apologising for the distress caused by his controversial column, published in The Age last Saturday. Backman says in his letter of apology: I can now see that some of the forms of words used did not adequately explain what I [...]

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Who Needs Subs?

January 13, 2009 – 1:12 pm

Who needs subs? Well, we all do. mUmBRELLA (wish that man would stop scooping me) has this to say about the increasingly embarrasing torrent of errors from the Fairfax press.  A picture of John Lennon taken a year after his death? I don’t think so. Not that Fairfax are on their own. This adds to [...]

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Write-ups, Stuff Ups and Sell Ups – A Media Roundup

January 11, 2009 – 1:12 pm

In no particular order, some interesting links about media over the last few days: Help Me Explain Twitter to Eggheads New media academic Jay Rosen, whose presence on Twitter is one of the main reason I am there too, is writing an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education about why he is on Twitter. [...]

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