A Pulitzer Prize winning author writes an article about tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea for a prominent and respected publication who are subsequently sued for ten million dollars by the Papuan source. What happened?
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On stealing from bars
May 19, 2009 – 2:05 pm
Nicking a bar mat is hardly a crime that warrants five years in prison, but it is, y’know, a crime.
A thing I found on the internet…
May 19, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I have been advised with the implementation of the new website that “stuff we like” is no longer being produced by someone else. Previously I would just ship all the hysterical things I located on the internet straight to the Crikeytronic 3000 Someone-else-will-deal-with-it-o-matic. No more, now all my cat videos and hilarious pics I find [...]
How to kill five hours in Parliament House
May 15, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Take one visitor’s pass, one bored Crikey journo, our nation’s capital and stir…
State of Play: a movie for journalists about journalists
May 12, 2009 – 11:42 am
SPOILER ALERT!
There is something kind of odd about watching a movie on the subject of journalism in a cinema full of journalists. Last night’s Melbourne media preview of State of Play was hilarious, not because the film is particularly amazing but because the reactions of the audience to the material were just so perfect.
When Russsell [...]
Presenting the inaugural Crikey Logies lookalikes
May 4, 2009 – 5:43 pm
Roll out the red carpet, and hold off nipping down to the milk bar to buy a copy of TV Week — Crikey presents our comprehensive Logies coverage.
Inspired by Channel Nine’s Tracey Grimshaw, who this year played the part of Grimace from McDonaldland, we’ve google imaged terms like “upholstered pedastal”, “eight-year-old in leotard”, “kitten” and [...]
A pair of very smart spectacles
April 29, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Ordered a pair of spectacles on Ebay. They were meant to look like Elvis Costello meets Janine Haines, sans perm. Or this. Or maybe even this.
They don’t.
They look like Stuart Littlemore with a hint of Jenny Kee.
So they’ve gone straight to the pool room. The Crikey pool room consists of a shelf full of [...]
Iced Dough-Vo Anyone?
April 24, 2009 – 3:56 pm
Elly Keating writes:
On this lovely Friday morning the Crikey team were pleasantly surprised by our fabulous editor Jonathan with a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. New varieties of Rocky Road and Iced Dough-Vo were a hit.
But this treat may soon be a thing of the past with news this afternoon that Arnott’s Biscuits have issued [...]
Israel/Palestine cage match
April 23, 2009 – 10:28 am
Crikey readers engage in friendly and healthy debate on all things Israel-Palestine.
YouTube sub genre # 329: cat v baby
April 21, 2009 – 5:05 pm
Crikey presents: baby v cat, or the lesser known, cat v baby.
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