Cream: n. part of milk with high fat content.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
The end of the world is God’s business, dammit
March 31, 2009 – 10:53 am
Dangerous loonies in command of democratic majorities. An occasional series
D.D. McNicoll sacked at The Australian?
March 27, 2009 – 4:46 pm
An anonymous tip just sent to Crikey:
From an informed source: D.D. McNicoll sacked yesterday from The Australian. Told to leave the building immediately not even given time to clear out his desk. Today is his 60th birthday. Redundancy at News Ltd capped at 1 year. McNicoll has been there 35 years. They [...]
Word of the day
March 24, 2009 – 8:24 pm
Parting: n. leave taking, departure; dividing line of combed hair.
Crikey editorial 24.03.09
March 24, 2009 – 8:19 pm
Not much has happened over the past few days to inspire confidence in the future — or for that matter present — of Australian newspaper journalism.
First off we had Fairfax director and major shareholder John B. Fairfax musing enigmatically at the Melbourne Press Club awards last Friday night. Quality journalism, according to this steward of [...]
Word of the day
March 23, 2009 – 8:30 pm
Padlock: n. detachable lock hanging by pivoted hook on object fastened.
Could this be the real fake Pauline Hanson?
March 23, 2009 – 3:29 pm
Who is this with legendary 18-inch Carribean porn star Long Dong Silver? Could it be ….
… or is it just Fiona Patten’s Sex Party playing with our minds?
Breeny explains the Hanson confusion
March 20, 2009 – 2:21 pm
Meet “Breeny” editor of the Sunday Telegraph. We now learn that he has considerable doubts about the authenticity of the “Hanson” photos, although the “real story” now is who were they? Yeah Breeny, that’s the real story.
As for the orginal splash of “Pauline”, well “we needed to put more rigours through it”.
Maybe so. Watch and [...]
Pope in a condom
March 18, 2009 – 1:55 pm
Taking Africa by storm is Pope Benedict.
As The Times online reports:
The Pope courted further controversy on his first trip to Africa today by declaring that condoms were not a solution to the Aids epidemic – but were instead part of the problem.
In his first public comments on condom use, the pontiff told reporters en route [...]
Crikey editorial 17.03.09
March 17, 2009 – 8:08 pm
We’ve learned quite a bit about what you can get away with in the mainstream Australian media in the past few days. Let’s just recap: 24 hours after News Limited chief John Hartigan commandeers space in The Australian to continue his campaign that media self-regulation trumps privacy legislation, the main News Limited papers pass the [...]
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