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Big Tobacco advertorial from the Tele

May 17, 2012 – 9:49 am

If you sell a product that’s not allowed to be advertised in Australia due to its harmful nature, how do you let people know that you’ve released a new brand? It seems that if you’re British American Tobacco Australia, you just ring up the Daily Telegraph, give them a few quotes and they’ll run it [...]

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“Labor’s” Speaker who won his seat on a Coalition ticket and whose behaviour was covered by the Coalition for years

April 21, 2012 – 9:18 am

Forget that Peter Slipper was elected on a Coalition ticket and that no other MPs in parliament have the power to kick him out until the next election. As you read about the allegations from the completely nonpartisan and generally entirely trustworthy and honest Daily Telegraph about his alleged interaction with a staffer, forget that [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (66)

Informing your readers

January 5, 2012 – 6:00 am

In late December the Australian Press Council found that a series of articles in The Daily Telegraph about the National Broadband Network “contained inaccurate or misleading assertions” describing one of the statements published in the Tele as “clearly and seriously inaccurate”. The Daily Telegraph was therefore obliged to publish the finding in full, which they [...]

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Looking for a mason to chisel that “0″ in stone.

December 4, 2011 – 10:14 am

This happens every time I consider going to check the News Ltd Eternal Vacuous ALP Leadership Speculation counter in the sidebar. Via @CaptainSuburbia We could chisel that “0″ in stone, couldn’t we?

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WTF – Hun’s “Wong” pun, and Tele calls her “pansy”

December 3, 2011 – 10:01 pm

The Herald Sun‘s headline image and caption for the ALP’s marriage equality debate today: I have not the words. UPDATE 4/12: The Daily Telegraph doesn’t even bother with a lame pun – it just calls Penny Wong “Pansy”: I’d like to say, unbelievable. I’d like to.

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Herald Sun, Posted | Comments (54)

0 Days without an ALP leadership speculation story

November 4, 2011 – 11:08 am

The Daily Telegraph and the papers that rely on it for content are again beating up an ALP leadership speculation story. It must be a day ending in Y. Homer keeps track of his parent company’s Australian operations A source told me there are concerns that have been raised in discussions by unnamed parties that [...]

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A tragedy where sanctimonious comment threads actually endanger kids

October 27, 2011 – 11:23 am

Congratulations to the Daily Telegraph for not opening up the comments on this tragic story of a NSW mother whose toddler died last week when she left him in the car. It would’ve been gold for hits – prodding as it does parents’ deepest fears, and the consequent desperate need to believe that the parent [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Lisa Davies, Posted | Comments (9)

Herald Sun SHOCK EXPOSE: Political people have political beliefs and sometimes express them publicly!

October 25, 2011 – 4:37 pm

Another Herald Sun beatup on the Occupy Melbourne protest, this time bashing the Greens because someone on their payroll might have been involved (HOW OUTRAGEOUS). The Hun’s headline? Yes, I’m sure they ran a similar headline about the Liberal Party members (taxpayer funded!) involved in the anti-carbon price rallies earlier in the year. “Taxpayers finance [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Peter Mickelburough, Posted | Comments (33)

Daily Telegraph complains about teachers not having the powers of police

October 10, 2011 – 8:30 am

Daily Telegraph beatup last week: A 14-year-old boy who confessed to his teacher that he robbed a service station and stabbed the attendant with a knife, has been acquitted after the District Court refused to allow the teacher’s statement into evidence because he had not “cautioned” the boy. Which our Daily Telegraph subeditor absurdly summarises [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Posted | Comments (10)

Daily Telegraph warns against LESBIAN MOTHERS!11!1!!!!!11

September 12, 2011 – 9:25 am

Second story on news.com.au, right under their September 11 coverage, is this shameless clickbait from the Daily Telegraph, “Lesbian foster couple put six year old boy in girl’s clothes and post photos on Facebook” (you can resist clicking on it – I’ll summarise it for you): “More” news? The sensationalist lead-in: A SIX-year-old boy placed [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Janet Fife-Yeomans, Posted | Comments (43)