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The Daily Tele – Peddling outrage instead of justice.

October 29, 2009 – 11:59 am

The Daily Telegraph are feeding off the grief of a family and trying to undermine the justice system in New South Wales as they peddle their latest outrage of the week. The decision by the NSW Parole Authority to release one of the men who was convicted of the murder of high profile heart surgeon [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (19)

Dial O for Outrage.

October 7, 2009 – 9:34 am

I think that the person with easiest job at The Daily Telegraph must be whoever gets to watch ABC Comedy shows and preview DVDs until they find something that they think is controversial, then ring the Australian Families Association for a quote from an outraged spokesman.
Today the target is John Safran, the show doesn’t air [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (9)

The Lazy Telegraph

September 28, 2009 – 6:00 am

The use of user generated content by traditional news organisations is growing as digital media becomes dominant in people’s lives, as does the culture of sharing it online on sites like flickr, twitpic and youtube. A good example of this was last week’s dust storms on the east coast of Australia, when news sites were [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (19)

Said best already

July 20, 2009 – 12:04 pm

Here are two stories that I would have written about, except that others have already done the heavy lifting:

Ruth Brown has covered the Daily Telegraph’s “oops!” moment in announcing the winner of MasterChef Australia, and asks what I consider the most important question about the blunder:
And did MasterChef’s producers pre-release the quotes from both contestants, [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Alan Howe | Comments (3)

Hard-hitting “journalism”

June 24, 2009 – 8:14 am

The Daily Telegraph is responsible for publishing an email, later showed to be fraudulent, that has seriously compromised the career of opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull. The email was possessed and possibly created by a public servant by the name of Godwin Grech. So what does the Tele do? Apologise for running a false email? Analyse [...]

By Scott Bridges | Also posted in Alison Rehn, Janet Fife-Yeomans | Comments (30)

UteGate and the media

June 23, 2009 – 7:56 am

This was published in yesterday’s Crikey subscriber email. It raises some interesting questions that are worthy of discussion here at Pure Poison.
Utegate raises no end of questions for the media too
Here’s Crikey’s own Bernard Keane thinking out loud via Twitter on Saturday:
Not sure how both Rudd and Turnbull can still be leaders after this. One [...]

By Scott Bridges | Also posted in Steve Lewis | Comments (38)

Nothing to see here

June 14, 2009 – 6:04 pm

The Daily Telegraph runs a headline and leading paragraph (quoted in isolation by Tim Blair) that suggest religious discrimination.
Muslims get interest-free loans
ONE of Australia’s major banks is planning to introduce “Muslim-friendly” loans that do not charge interest, to comply with Sharia law.
The loans are not strictly interest-free; the interest is just built into the loan [...]

By Scott Bridges | Also posted in Tim Blair | Comments (41)