And while I think of it, this is not a dust storm, THIS is a dust storm: Just saying.
READ MORESeptember, 2009
The ties that bind, and MBA wankers
This ad has been running hard in Melbourne print media since the footy at the weekend: It says something about the sort of person Melbourne University is hoping to attract to its business school … a school that apparently sees a football allegiance (the guy in the ad has decided, oh smart fellow, to wear [...]
READ MOREPress accuracy rating at a 20-year low
The Pew Research Centre has been evaluating public attitudes to press accuracy since 1985. Pubic perceptions of press accuracy are now at a 20-year low. You may be able to believe what you read, but most Americans don’t Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that [...]
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But which is the Wright Goanna?
I admit here to a small amount of confusion. Does the new Fairfax opinion aggregator The National Times wish the identity of its star national affairs columnist, The Goanna, to be a secret, an open secret or Tony Wright? All possibilities appear to be in play. The National Times home page just offers The (unadorned) [...]
READ MORETurnbull’s QT blog … get the picture
Malcolm Turnbull’s question time youtube, hmm. Goes OK.
READ MOREMike Leyland gone. Icon!
Mike Leyland is dead. Let’s take a moment shall we?
READ MORENo phone like no iPhone
Almost there now. First day in maybe 18 years without a mobile phone. You can stop calling me now mother. How so? Dead iPhone — oo look, six weeks out of warranty and the home button doesn’t work. Anyway it’s off at the doctors and I am writing this in the hope that Steve Jobs [...]
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Danby, the wordle
On Monday MHR Michael Danby made some pretty tough attacks on Crikey and New Matilda, both agents of malignant anti-Semitism, it would seem. His speech to the House bothered me. Bothers me. I’ve never been pigeon-holed as a racist in the federal parliament before. Read it here. On the everything looks nicer on a doilly [...]
READ MOREFor Di, coz I said I would
More harmonious than the Humphries version.
READ MOREHow the media works: Kyle, plus Penbo, plus PM equals PR
It’s a small world after all. Kyle Sandilands is a boofhead. The lie detector incident. He writes a piece for News Limited blog The Punch defending himself. It’s still The Punch’s most commented post by the length of the Flemington straight. Kyle is a boofhead again. The concentration camp incident. Kyle is suspended. Punch editor [...]
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