The newspaper still beats the KindleE-readers may have some price advantages over newspapers in the US, but they lack what print newspapers such a perfect delivery vehicle for news: graphic design.
June, 2009
UK Tele exaggerates on Utegate
The London Telegraph gives the PM a free upgrade…
Baby on board: the kind of stunt the Greens crave
Claims that federal politics is “one of the least family-friendly occupations in the country” are simply absurd nonsense, writes Former Liberal Party Senator Noel Crichton-Browne.
Ute-gate unravels, Vanstone stumbles, an answer for Steve FieldingCrikey live blogs Parliament
With Utegate heating up, and the Emissions Trading Scheme entering a crucial week, Question Time today should be fiery. Crikey brings you the on-floor action as it happens.
Utegate explained
Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane lays out the Utegate scandal with easy-to-understand cast notes and diagrams.
Political snippets: Learning from South Australia
Malcolm Turnbull eagerly embraces secret document and makes stupid assurances about it’s validity. And he’s not the only Liberal leader to get himself into political trouble by an eagerness to embrace a “secret” document lately.
Utegate: If the email exists, it’ll be found
Whatever you do online, you leave your digital fingerprints smeared over everything, writes Stilgherrian.
Little chance that anything will be salvaged from Timbercorp
Timbercorp is broke — so broke that there’s no point in saving it, writes Glenn Dyer.
Media briefs: Kidnapped NYT reporter escapes… 23 journos arrested in Iran…
As the foreign media are forced out of Iran, local reporters are being imprisoned for covering protests.
Utegate: conspiracy or cock-up?
The events of Friday evening caught the Telegraph badly on the hop when the Prime Minister ruined Steve Lewis’s yarn about the Charlton-Grech email.
Scepticism can limit your options when it comes to medicine
Even a bullshit detector crusade can reach such a fever pitch that it becomes a religion itself, writes Julian Zytnik.
The fire next time: reforming Australian bushfire policy
In this summarised version of his second submission to the Royal Commission, Frank Campbell says Black Saturday was the logical outcome of erroneous assumptions and policies developed over a quarter of a century.
Tips and rumours: Silent redundancies at Fairfax?
Fairfax are again offering redundancies to selected journalists, says a tipster.
Utegate cage match: Malcolm on the back foot
Malcolm Turnbull has stumbled into a fight to the death unprepared and, it seems, outgunned.
Morning Market Report: Market breaks even
A quiet start to week with the market up 0.3.
graph pr0n Memo Steve Fielding: here’s an answer to your question
”I need to hear an explanation of why carbon emissions have been going up over the last decade and temperatures haven’t been going up,” asks Senator Steve Fielding. Ian McHugh answers.
Video, not just Twitter, defines Iranian election fallout
There’s a lot video content coming out of Iran and, like Twitter, it can be overwhelming. Crikey intern Bhakthi Puvanenthiran selects the ones worth watching.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The climate denial/groping paradox
Readers shoot their mouths off on climate change, groping, babies, Fairfax and more.
Guy Rundle: The Committee (with apologies to Franz K)
Godwin G worked in the basement of the Fadden Building in the Department of Apple Polishing. An apple would come down the chute and he would polish it and put it in the other chute. He did not know why they sent him apples to polish or where they went when he had polished them and he did not ask, writes Guy Rundle.
Google Translate gets Farsi thanks to Iran crisis
Google has added Farsi to the list of languages Google Translate can convert automatically to English. It was already in the pipeworks, but given the current situation, Google rushed its release.
Crikey Says: Utegate unravelling fast
Events are moving rapidly in Canberra. Godwin Grech’s residence has been raided by the AFP, with reports that a “concocted” email has been found.
