Much muttering around various traps about a spot of cutting and job shedding at News Ltd. Margaret Simons wrote on this today in the Crikey email edition.
As head News honchos met today at the Sydney HQ word filtered off what might just be the target number for shedding across the Australian group. That number? Remember [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
How many jobs would News like to cut?
January 30, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Giving good Rundle
January 30, 2009 – 8:12 am
I don’t want to piss too deeply in his probably manky pockets, but Guy Rundle has that wonderful gift of being able to express that nagging notion that was just a little beyond grasp. He’s got a good mind on him that lad.
Thus for all their differences, the dominant mood in both societies is one [...]
Time for West Wing OS X v10.5.6
January 23, 2009 – 2:38 pm
I have a theory here, that we will know that true change has come with the new team when the White House becomes an all Mac operation.
Ich bin ein Obama …
January 22, 2009 – 8:17 am
… or something like that. A little amazing to see the total suspension of disbelief in the Australian press, with even the crusty ideo-warriors at the Oz grounding arms to applaud seemingly quite rapt. This truly does seem to be a moment, one that gives a new and suddenly hopeful context to our own slightly [...]
Crikey in pictures
January 20, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Today’s Crikey editorial as a wordle, just coz i like them.
Good Morning Mr Pilger
January 20, 2009 – 8:22 am
Bless you John Pilger. Relegated to Green Left online, but you still got it. Just the thing to engorge the righteous dander early in the morn.
I confess: I have been Frank Devine. Sorry.
January 16, 2009 – 11:06 am
It started as role play really. Sort of a web three, parallel universe prank, a faux reality in which I crafted for myself what at the time was a vaguely engaging literary persona: an irritable duffer, cantankerous but lovable. I imagined the crusty physical manifestation, played with the writing style, dummied around with a few [...]
Promise I’ll do better
January 15, 2009 – 10:11 pm
I really have been a slack dog. Frog. Whatever. This will have to stop some day soon.
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