How on Earth will Fairfax report news stories when it’s down 1900 staff? “People take to Twitter”! What an angle. UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Herald Sun went with PEOPLE’S PICTURES BECAME SLIGHTLY WONKY:
READ MOREKeane on The Age actually providing meaningful scrutiny of the ALP, and the two big parties and the competing media empire trying to shut it down
When the two big old political parties work together to try to silence a newspaper for reporting what they’ve been up to with voters’ information, that’s when you should be concerned: Yesterday the Victorian Parliamentary Electoral Matters Committee, chaired by Liberal MP Bernie Finn, handed in its report on the 2010 election. In doing so, [...]
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It’s a story about a bride allegedly faking cancer so people would donate to her “dream wedding”: why embellish?
The Age does understand that being charged with a crime is not the same as being found guilty of a crime, right? Suddenly I have my doubts: The US state attorney general’s office announced that Jessica Vega, 25, had been indicted on charges of fraud and grand larceny for getting her “dream wedding” by falsely [...]
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Penguin “benefactor” not all that “benefactor-y”.
A weird one in this morning’s Age: That sounds like the bloke paid $250k to improve the situation for the penguins, doesn’t it? But that doesn’t seem to be what happened.
READ MOREFortunately I didn’t pay for it
The sort of inanities The Age is publishing between bouts of vacuous “leadership speculation”: A city divided Which side of the Yarra you live on speaks volumes – or does it? Natalie Craig finds out. Welcome to the Hotel California, you can check it out any time, but you won’t be pleased IT sits next [...]
READ MOREHe has annoyed large media companies. He must be crushed.
The arrest and pending extradition to the US of MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom in Auckland over the weekend is a handy reminder to Australians as well as New Zealanders that when the US passes overly-punitive copyright or other pro-big-business laws as demanded by lobbyists of their bought-and-paid-for politicians (against whom we cannot vote at all, [...]
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Understanding The World Of The Subeditor
A new series at Pure Poison, where in an effort to include silly media quibbles that amuse us but don’t technically qualify as “intellectual dishonesty”, we explore them as shedding light on the shadowy world of the unknown but influential newspaper subeditor. Today’s episode: How to avoid confusing headline-skimming obituary readers Overheard at a fictional [...]
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Slow news day at The Age?
I know it’s Summer, and a Friday at that, but was a man swimming in the wrong lane really the biggest story in Melbourne? ALBERT Park local Peter Baker was completing his regular swim at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre yesterday, when he suddenly felt the surge of an obviously strong swimmer – one [...]
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Humans went to the Moon when, Jane?
Dear The Age, If you’re going to publish a story combining the nerd-friendly topics of space travel and Lego, “Blockhead won’t Lego of his childhood dream”, please don’t get one of the most important dates in human history wrong: Who’s the “blockhead” now? The first human Moon landing (“delivery” of “humans to the Moon”) was, [...]
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Classy As Ever #2: The Age’s lolsuicide
The Age recognised that its story today about a Polish prosecutor shooting himself in the head at a press conference raised some delicate issues. It included the following note in the story: * Support is available for anyone who may be distressed by calling Lifeline 131 114, Mensline 1300 789 978, Kids Helpline 1800 551 [...]
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