After all the talk about Australia’s great culinary excellence and creativity that’s what it came down to. The judges seemed uncomfortable with asian food, deeply impressed by OTT deserts and were heavily engaged with the winner’s propensity for emotional outbursts. Unfortunately, as with so many of these reality shows, the best competitors seem to get [...]
Newspapers have been declining in prominence and relevance for decades, well before the Internet and bloggers came along.
Many newspaper titles have disappeared altogether, or have been merged, in response to the growth of radio and television. The emergence of the Internet simply reduces the market for newspapers even further. Newspapers will not disappear altogether, the [...]
Apparently, there are calls for Phil ‘ Gus’ Gould to coach NSW again. But he says things would have to change before he would even consider it (the guy’s ego has been out of control for a long time), including this gem:
“There would also have to be massive improvement in the relationships between players and [...]
Keen, an academic from UWS, became a media darling last year by predicting the economic equivalent of the end of the world as we know it in the midst of the worst days of the GFC. The media lapped up his “its much worse than you think” message. Just how responsible it is to pour [...]
Sandy Alioisi is co-host of the 2GB breakfast program, she is the one that works hard. Yesterday, in the wake of the (gasp) Therese Rein gym photos scandal, Sandy rose to her full (metaphorical) height and declaimed that the Woman’s Day had to decide whether it was a magazine of repute or not. No kidding. [...]
After all, everyone else has got one mummy.
The media is at its rancid worst this morning bemoaning the technical absence of a recession when everyone reeaalllly knows the whole place is f#cked.
Ross Gittins defends his right to call it a recession no matter what the data say. Interestingly, a week ago he was writing on [...]
In a well-executed media stunt (labelled an ‘exclusive’ by the Daily Telegraph, LOL) the NSW Government has come up with an idea to try and carve out a future in the (mis)management of the state’s health system. Apart from being an ‘exclusive’, the stunt also has two other elements designed to give it media appeal: [...]
Yesterday, Andrew Bolt got a bit scathing and dirty on the ABC’s Insiders about veteran press gallery journalist Laurie Oakes. Bolt said that Liberals were ’concerned’ about Oakes’ reporting, whatever that amounts to. The immediate cause of Bolt’s attack was Oakes’ ‘ambush’ of Turnbull during the week over the Opposition Leader’s inclusion on the [...]
From the ‘who funds this nonsense’ file comes this ludicrous quote:
The researchers noted that even “in instances of smoking being reflected in a negative way, particularly among younger characters, could have an impact on prompting children to smoke cigarettes.”
If anyone really believed this then surely we would immediately cancel all those anti-smoking ads?
The research found that [...]
The News website has been making great fun with their Clare the Bogan story all day, but is the joke on them? Is it the Pauline Hanson photos fiasco all over again?
Update: I now have reason to believe that she is real and went to Stella Maris College in Manly.
Update 2 (Sunday morning): She [...]
