There must be some independent standard of what makes news … I’d have thought there would be certain baseline commonalities between two newspapers in one city, things that happen that ought be reported. Are newspapers a mirror of surrounding events? Or something altogether more cynical and contrived?
I’m wondering this appropos of The Age and its [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Tell us, Herald Sun, what is news then?
December 8, 2008 – 8:40 am
Ok, so I’m a sucker for the season
December 5, 2008 – 3:16 pm
Something seasonal. No David Kirk pun intended.
Web 2.0 without a web
December 4, 2008 – 3:12 pm
How cool. Italian artist Filippo Minelli travels the third world and insinuates the catch phrases of web 2.0 into various low-tech contexts. Contradictions is the name of the project. How apt. Should be a Facebook group.
Julie Bishop goes Ming
December 4, 2008 – 2:42 pm
How exciting to watch Julie Bishop take the reins in Question Time today, wearing what appears to be one of Bob Menzies’ old suits. Petrodollars! Government banks! Loans Council! Bring back RFX Connor! ‘Will the treasurer rule out the establishment of a new government bank?’ What a stirring return to form.
Flow my Sting
December 2, 2008 – 3:20 pm
Sting is in Melbourne tomorrow to do his Dowland thing. Any reservations one might have about this coupling should be set at nought by the companion thought that it is wonderful to have such lovely music so lovingly restored. That said, I think I’ll always be a Deller man. Although Sting has much nicer teeth.
Australia waiting for its Bolting
December 2, 2008 – 3:06 pm
I’m excited …. word has it that tomorrow – Wednesday – Andrew “The Xenophobic Battler’s Clever Friend’ Bolt will at last deliver his long-hand verdict on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.
It’s no plot spolier to say that the film deals at length with the whole stolen generations thing, giving sympathetic flesh to something that was undoubdtedly a [...]
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