Brilliant … Melbourne’s Herald Sun discovers the homeless world cup. How so? Because “at least 15 foreign soccer players” are apparently seeking asylum.
That for one thing seems only natural. Lets see, you’re a homeless street soccer star from Zimbabwe and you don’t attempt to get asylum at the end of the tournament? You’d need your [...]
Tag Archives: herald-sun
Facts, agendas and cynical tabloidism
December 10, 2008 – 8:27 am
Tell us, Herald Sun, what is news then?
December 8, 2008 – 8:40 am
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 [...]
Do you want the bad news or the tabloid pap?
November 19, 2008 – 8:22 am
The economy is in a dire place, the RBA is feeling compelled to act as best it can to apply CPR to the twitching patient. Every cut in rates is just another clue to the depth of despair around the RBA board table. Of course, that’s not how they see it in tabloid newspaper land. [...]
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