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“Is News becoming embarrassed by what’s made News great?”

July 13, 2011 – 10:45 am

A News Ltd associate editor, defending News Of The World and lamenting its closure, asks: Is News becoming embarrassed by what’s made News great? …Is the News empire at risk of selling out the Murdoch spirit that has helped to democratise the press and challenge the smug group-think of the Left? Is Fox News next? [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (42)

Bolt: I’ll take that as a Leftist conspiracy

June 29, 2010 – 4:35 pm

I’ve noted before that Andrew Bolt launches attacks on the “balance” of Q&A based on his claims about the panel’s ideologies and not based on the diversity of views that shows up if you, you know, actually watch the show. The last two weeks provide an interesting contrast.

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (41)

Wonder what she’ll do with it

June 28, 2010 – 1:50 pm

Apparently Caroline Overington (yes, that Caroline Overington) will now be heading up the Australian’s “Media Diary” section. Given the fairly personal nature of some of her past polemics (and the bizarre nature of some of her tweets), we’ll be watching with interest.

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (13)

Your favourite thing sucks

February 15, 2010 – 11:30 am

Did Caroline Overington miss out on getting the last copy of Mario Kart for her kids because some nasty Gen X bloke beat her to it? Or did someone cancel dinner plans to stay home and play Bioshock 2 on release day? Because I’m struggling to find a rational explanation for this bizarre screed about [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (87)

All or nothing; Now or never

May 12, 2009 – 2:53 pm

Caroline Overington’s latest post says that Wayne Swan’s proposal for paid parental leave “falls apart”. What is so wrong with it? It’s not due to come in until January 2011 … that is, after the next election. It’s dependent on the Rudd Government being returned (quite likely) and on the deficit not blowing out (not [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged | Comments (9)

Media on judges; judges on media

April 24, 2009 – 2:05 pm

We had some discussion on this site about media reaction to the case of Ronald King, who received a suspended sentence after sexually abusing a young girl. The Crown appealed against the lenience of the sentence, and yesterday the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal announced its decision – King now faces a custodial sentence of [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged | Comments (15)

To cuss or not to cuss

March 13, 2009 – 1:46 pm

Caroline Overington has written a piece about what she perceives as a recent drop in the standards of public discourse. She bases this conclusion on three examples of politicians swearing in public. Late last year, for example, we had Tony Abbott, unforgiveably late for a debate with Nicola Roxon, and then swearing at her. [...] [...]

By Scott Bridges | Comments (17)

To err

February 27, 2009 – 10:50 am

Caroline Overington ponders the arrest of an ABC news crew at the scene of the Black Saturday bushfires. There are reports that an ABC Lateline reporter, thought to be Raphael Epstein, was arrested last night while at Kinglake, the site of Black Saturday bushfires. Police say it’s a breach of the Coroner’s Act, because Kinglake [...]

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