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Category Archives: News Ltd.

Compliment turns to ash

May 21, 2012 – 3:06 pm

I was just about to compliment News.com.au for running, near the top of its front page, just under the Craig Thomson report, this putting-it-in-perspective pearler from Malcolm Farr: He has not been found guilty of anything, apart from a Liberal charge of not resigning to allow Abbott to win. And I just popped back to [...]

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Go on, journalists – ask the Liberals if they support WA seceding

May 20, 2012 – 11:54 pm

A Liberal Party premier of WA is quoted on one of our news sites talking of seceding from Australia. The mining boom, he says, is “concealing the true weakness of the national economy”. (A more accurate way of putting that is that the mining boom is, through draining other sectors of workers and raising the [...]

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Will ACMA act on Lachlan Murdoch?

May 16, 2012 – 10:30 am

Stephen Mayne made the case over a year ago in Crikey: Why ACMA should force Lachlan Murdoch off News Corp board Given that Lachlan Murdoch is now exerting clear influence over Ten Network Holdings as acting CEO and a substantial shareholder, why aren’t the regulators examining the question of his ongoing directorship of News Corporation? [...]

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Get ready for the big “Rupert Murdoch is not a fit and proper person” pile-on

May 2, 2012 – 7:59 am

The envy-ridden, hate-filled leftist media are this morning trumpeting the finding by an envy-ridden, hate-filled leftist (including the Tories) UK parliamentary committee that Rupert Murdoch – Our Rupert – is unfit to run a global company like News: “News International and its parent News Corporation exhibited wilful blindness, for which the companies’ directors – including [...]

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* And dildos.

April 26, 2012 – 9:22 am

Maybe I’ve become a curmudgeon, but news.com.au’s report on the existence of the G-spot didn’t raise a chortle, snicker, or even a wry smile. I’m not trying to demand that reporting about sex be humourless, but who on earth decided that instead of referring to the vagina when discussing the G-spot it would be better [...]

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Elsewhere – The questions that News will not answer

April 13, 2012 – 10:19 am

Today’s Australian Financial Review: The questions that News will not answer Two weeks later, the core issues raised by the AFR  have not been addressed; the questions go unanswered. The AFR  has been putting them to NDS, and later News Corp, since last August. They have declined to answer. One of NDS’s few responses was [...]

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News suddenly realises that some people out there think of high property prices as a bad thing

April 5, 2012 – 11:23 am

We may have damned them last week in a post and the podcast for blithely gloating about high property prices, not realising just how serious a problem housing affordability is for young people – but to be fair to News.com.au, right now they’re leading with this whip-lash opposite approach (via AAP): There are of course [...]

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Compare and contrast

April 4, 2012 – 11:08 am

Then. It is through the media that most Australians are kept informed about most of the things that affect them. And the rights of the media are a reasonable reflection of the rights that individuals can expect to enjoy. I don’t think there is much dispute now that secrecy and censorship of what we are [...]

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“News”.com.au: some random people on Twitter fell for Google April Fools’ Day prank

April 2, 2012 – 10:32 pm

I’m not sure if this is supposed to inspire me to pay for the “premium” supposedly non-drivel content behind the paywall, but why else would “News” publish this drivel on its front page? A JOKE plan by internet giant Google to strap cameras on kangaroos’ heads to capture the outback “one bounce at a time” [...]

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“Where to the moral line is draw???”

March 30, 2012 – 12:39 pm

News.com.au reminds its readers that the submissions to the Senate and House of Representatives marriage inquiries are closing soon, but leads with the Catholic Church framing of the argument: There are currently three gay marriage private member’s bills before Federal Parliament, aimed at changing the legal definition of marriage as a union between a man [...]

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