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Albrechtsen’s column this morning (“is America a racist nation after all?”) is a sour piece, the heading tells you everything. Colin Powell was moved to tears. Condoleezza Rice expressed her pride as an African-American, George Bush and John McCain were both gracious in acknowledging the ‘healing’ that Obama’s win will do for America’s centuries old [...]

About 500 people gave up their Sunday afternoon to hear Rupert Murdoch deliver the first in his series of this year’s Boyer Lectures to be broadcast on Radio National. It helped that we were watered and fed on the Opera House forecourt afterwards. There was a great assortment of executives from News Limited and the [...]

I don’t usually subscribe to all the ‘heritage media, death of newspapers’ stuff but when I saw the Sydney Morning Herald this morning I almost choked on my home-made, organic, wholemeal sourdough toast. Here’s the copy from the ad that caught my attention: As the race to the White House comes down to the wire, [...]

NYT: “Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors — acting in effect like aggregators. The Washington Post recently introduced a political Web site that recommends rival sites. This week NBC will begin introducing Web sites for its local TV stations [...]