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Who’s been digging into Melbourne journalists’ pasts and creating odd articles about them on Wikipedia?

December 11, 2011 – 2:10 pm

The name of our site might suggest a certain unfriendly approach to the nation’s media. We might often cover journalists who use their power to bully and threaten and harm others, and express fairly blunt criticisms of them. But, as regular readers will be aware, the name is ironic. We want the best for our [...]

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Come on, Mr Ramadge, James Campbell is talking to you!

November 15, 2011 – 2:40 pm

Quick followup to our coverage yesterday about Herald Sun reporter James Campbell missing the real story on the ALP’s disturbingly detailed database on ordinary citizens, exposed instead by The Age. Mr Campbell – who was the same day also behind this foul and misleading character assassination of another private citizen based on potentially unlawful access [...]

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Hack on hacking

November 14, 2011 – 11:00 am

The Herald Sun‘s James Campbell is the winner of today’s “If the story involves computers it must be hacking” award for disservice to your readers for yesterday’s story about the investigation into The Age‘s access of an ALP voter database. It’s a story that Campbell has been following since earlier this year and revolves around [...]

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Herald Sun scoop: lawyer we apparently don’t like charged but not found guilty of offence in 1993!

November 14, 2011 – 9:30 am

What was the justification for this nasty smear by James Campbell against a private citizen that ran in yesterday’s Sunday Herald Sun? GANGLAND lawyer Nicola Gobbo was charged with drug trafficking while at university after police raided the Carlton house she was living in. The barrister who represented Tony Mokbel and Carl Williams during Melbourne’s [...]

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James Campbell serves up the stupid, with a side order of smug

October 24, 2011 – 12:27 pm

Every week we see our Cut and Paste Trophy thread filled to the brim with stupid reader comments that the news media have seen fit to publish, but it’s worth remembering that this isn’t the only place where you’ll find detestable nonsense published. Last weekend the Herald Sun went out of their way to remind [...]

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