Kout’s cruel-o-meter
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Sometimes, if you want to do Islamophobia right, you just gotta do it yourself. This from The Oz ’s Cut and Paste:
Got that? No Muslims haven’t claimed that yet, but if they did it, here’s how they’d do it. But how did they get hold of an obscure Alpine source? Step forward Tom “Heidi” Switzer, ex op-ed editor. After the Howard loss in 2007, Tom had a complete breakdown and lost the ability to speak English, reverting instead to the “Rumantsch” language of his gingerbread youth (it’s a minor language of East Switzerland, the country’s fourth official tongue). Though The Australian soldiered on, letting Tom edit the page using an 1898 Rumantsch-English dictionary borrowed from the Mitchell library, it became clear that he would have to find employment where command of English was irrelevant, which is how he ended up in Brendan Nelson’s office. But not before your correspondent reached out and made the effort:
Came the reply:
At which point the logical thing to do would have been to contact the Swiss press and interest them in this touching story of a man who had reverted to his lederhosen-laden childhood due to the collapse of his world, with a photo (probably of Angry Anderson). But Mr Haueter had been so nice I didn’t have the heart. Henry Root I isn’t. There it stopped, though it’s good to see Tom keeps an eye on the things that matterhorn. Courage Tom. You know we’re all fondue. — Guy Rundle The Kouts Cruel-o-Meter. Crikey ’s Richard Farmer has touched on the story of SA parliamentary hoon Minister for Road Safety Tom Koutsantonis, who was forced to resign last week over his appalling driving record. South Australian media outlet Adelaide Now responded to the news with this funky looking and completely weird interactive game on their website called “The Kouts Cruel-o-Meter — the question, to pimp Kout’s car or to detonate it?
Emotional and tired? Is that ABC speak for hangover? The breakfast (5.30am to 9am) announcer on Canberra ABC local radio station 666, Ross Solly, was missing from his shift Thursday morning. A fill-in announcer did the early part of the show. When morning (9am to midday) host Alex Sloan started her on-air shift earlier than normal, at 8.30am, she explained to on-air listeners that it was because Ross Solly had been at the Canberra local radio awards last night and was “too tired and emotional” to be on air. Tired and emotional? As of this morning, ABC in Canberra was not reporting the results of the local radio awards — good or bad — so maybe Solly wasn’t over-celebrating, but was instead drowning his sorrows. — Crikey reader Marcus Vernon Placement aporkolypse. The Townsville Bulletin places the Swine Flu story next to… a kid kissing a pig??
Hero of the week. Man travels four days for help carrying a girl with her stomach falling out:
Seeking Credit Superhero. Unfortunately this employment opportunity was taken off Seek yesterday afternoon, we can only hope that Dargan Financial found the appropriate hero for the job.
Three acquitted of playing roles in murder of journalist Politkovskaya. A jury acquitted three men on Thursday of playing minor roles in the murder of an investigative journalist whose killing underlined the risks that Kremlin critics can face in Russia. The main suspects in the case remained at large. The unanimous not-guilty verdicts ended a four-month trial regarding the killing of acclaimed journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose probing reports on atrocities in Chechnya and abuses by Russian authorities angered the government. The trial was marred from the start by the absence of the suspected gunman and any alleged mastermind behind the politically charged October 2006 killing. Prosecutors vowed to appeal. — Editor and Publisher More American newspaper refugees start up online media site. Back in October, the New Jersey Star-Ledger bought out 200 employees (and then hired interns to replace them). Roughly one-fifth of those employees recently launched NewJerseyNewsroom.com , a local site aimed at covering the Garden State with a combination of original reporting and rehashed stories. The former S-Ler s are following in the footsteps of refugees from major papers, including the online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer — who launched Seattle Post Globe — and Denver journos, who are trying to get InDenverTimes up and running. Everyone is currently working for free, but they hope to secure a revenue stream soon. — Webnewser UK Daily Express editor’s catalogue of ‘mistakes’ in evidence to MPs. The evidence given to the Commons select committee yesterday by Daily Express editor Peter Hill was extraordinary. He made persistent references to the uniqueness of the Madeleine McCann story as an excuse for his paper’s tawdry and defamatory coverage. He blamed the Portuguese police for leaking untrue stories, which he was happy to publish, he said, because he believed them to be true “at the time”. Sadly, MPs did not ask him why his reporters had failed to obtain a second source for any of those far-fetched and malicious stories obtained through anonymous leaks. — Greenslade @ The Guardian The greatest, most heroic shampoo ad ever . This commercial from Lowe Bangkok for Clear shampoo gets to the very heart of the age-old human vs dandruff struggle: It’s an epic, poetic, otherworldly battle between ice-arrow-wielding brunette warrior-hairs and freaky white exploding dandruff fairies. If it’s intentionally campy, it’s great. If it’s meant to be serious, it’s even better.
And just try to make sense of the voiceover: “From black into darkness, shadows see follicles bent and broke and slivers of sparks as dark and dandruff collide. Rage, rage against her breath of fear! Now frozen, silence marks the danse macabre. And into the dark, the icy blackness follows.” — AdFreak |
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