Comments on: Parasitical publications

By: marktwain

marktwain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:19:35 +0000

All you want is a left-wing opinion on everything, then, Grog. For a teacher, this is not healthy.

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:56:08 +0000

If they had poll bludger and Possum, I’d be over there with them. When Tim Dunlop was on news.com.au, I was there.

And maybe that is their major problem. To qualify as a global News Corp journo you have to be able to wave the Conservative flag in what you write. And everyone knows neo-con journos are crap writers.

But what amazes me is the willingness of News Ltd to give free advertising to Crikey and the on-line world by complaining about them all the time. People at Crikey must be over joyed at all this attention.

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:49:57 +0000

The establishment should be able to rustle up a few old agressive alcoholic journos to stand under the flag and shake their fist at the sky, cursing the changing world. Those upstart on-line things, how dare they make old newspapers and their journos look irrelevant.

Newspapers depend on generic stream of news feeds for their content, it is not as though any of them do anything investigative now days. If news papers didn’t exist places like Crikey would still exists and in fact grow and thrive.

The only reason the OO and others papers get such comment in the on-line world is for their blatant and persistent bias. It is why they places like Crikey are hated as well, their old secret little world is no longer secret, the blatant bias, laziness, incompetence and games and lying revealed.

The Australian murdoch media is in a state of decay, they are too concerned with pushing a partisan line, too busy fighting wars in their own mind and living in denial that their prestige is dead and gone and that they better catch up quick or PO.

By: Grog

Grog — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:59 +0000

Not sure what News.ltd’s problem is. If they had poll bludger and Possum, I’d be over there with them. When Tim Dunlop was on news.com.au, I was there. If Bernard Keane had Kerr’s job, I’d be reading him over there.

Crikey offers what I want, so I’m here.

That the best they could come up with is the lame “The Punch” (and what a name – who did they workshop that with, NRL players?) shouldn’t mean they need to hate Crikey. Crikey isn’t likely to run articles written by Bronwyn Bishop criticising Julia Gillard (because God knows that filled a “need”) so what are they worried about – the audiences are obviously different?

I guess they think it’s a zero-sum game.

Poor fools.

By: confessions

confessions — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:52:09 +0000

@ Ozpol tragic: the Australian lost me years ago, and I know I’m not the only one in my demographic mystified at their blatant bias. these days I only read the online version to see what the wingnuts are getting their knickers into a knot over.

By: Daniel Ashdown

Daniel Ashdown — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:48:18 +0000

Actually, the fact that The Australian and other older newspapers are mentioning Crikey (in name too, not just referenced as ‘a gossip website’) is evidence of Crikey’s growing importance.

This editorial (and the Media Watch anniversary special broadcast recently on the ABC) is just more evidence that journalists are pathetic children who can’t handle criticism. Even if Crikey was ‘just’ a site for critique of the media, so what? As for the ‘breaking of big stories’, well…..I wonder how difficult it must’ve been to break the Pauline Hanson nude photos story, or the faked email story. Clearly The Australian is just chock a block full of budding Woodward’s and Bernsteins!

By: Daniel Ashdown

Daniel Ashdown — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:35:04 +0000

The Australian editorial: a bloo bloo bloo

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:59:32 +0000

Crikey’s problem – and I expect this is Beecher’s influence – is it insists on clinging to that long-defunct concept of an “afternoon newspaper”.

In this age of instant news, who’s really interested in a rehash of Thursday’s news when they finally get around to publishing it at 1pm on Friday?

As The Oz editorial said, Crikey’s readership is merely those who need to check in and find out what their own opinion should be. Yesterday.

By: marktwain

marktwain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:57:52 +0000

For once, I entirely agree with The Australian’s editorial writers, and that has never happened before. Crikey couldn’t exist without newspapers. It has obviously responded to criticism that it doesn’t break news by running some gumph about Computershare yesterday and today, but no one cares.

I’ve subscribed to Crikey for three years, but won’t renew my sub. Why bother, when I can get all the good stuff for free? Har har de har har.

BTW, Jonathan Green is the person who made Crikey dull. Good job, mate.

By: Mr Squid

Mr Squid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:19:02 +0000

In comparison to this morning’s stand-up comedy script from Imre Straight Out of the NSW Far Right’s Fundament, Halfwit Hartigan is a model of objectivity and integrity.