Senator Steve Fielding, while denying that he is a climate sceptic, appears to have retreated to first principles on climate change.
June, 2009
Tips and rumours: Imminent election?
In tips & rumours today: the best indicator of an imminent election has been the Electoral Commission checking if post offices have sufficient enrolment forms. They just checked.
Guy Rundle: Who cooked up this ELF hobgoblin?
There ain’t nothing like a homegrown terror scare to get the juices flowing.
Up to 12 students reported killed in Iran protests
Information is hard to come by, but a Farsi website carries an unconfirmed report that seven people were killed in clashes at a local university in Shiraz. That adds to the five students The Guardian understands may have died in clashes at Tehran University early on Sunday.
Nepotism at work: celebrity media interns
Riding their family names into gigs that should probably go to journalism graduates, this year’s celeb intern class includes Elyssa Spitzer at The Huffington Post, Theo Spielberg at New York magazine and Tallulah Willis at Harper’s Bazaar.
HuffPo liveblogs Iran election
For a minute by minute account, including videos from Tehran, Obama’s reaction and tweets, it’s hard to go past Huffington Post’s round-up.
Doomadgee inquest to be reopened
The coronial inquest into the death in police custody of Palm Island’s Mulrunji Doomadgee will be reopened, with a new coroner appointed to review the evidence.
Name-based news aggregation
New site Daily Perfect offers a page of news articles it thinks you may like, based purely on your name. It’s a little creepy, but at least a fresh take on news aggregation.
Happy Bloomsday!
Literary Minded’s Angela Meyer marks Bloomsday with some Ulysses quotable quotes — well from the first 310 pages anyway.
The Iran fallout unfolds on Twitter
Twitter is showing its power to provide users with instant news in the wake of the Iranian elections.
The science of a sneeze
Scientists who study the ways we cough and sneeze shed light on how viruses like swine flu are spread.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE! How headline writers create news
The headline writers at the New York Post sure know how to beat-up a simple yarn into a full-blown media meltdown.
Following the Iranian election aftermath online
With all the post-election madness taking place in Iran, the best way to get up-to-the-minute (and accurate) news is online. Vanity Fair has a watcher’s guide to the best web-based news resources.
Obama embraces Reagan; Republicans suddenly less keen
Obama has been quite generous in his praise of Ronald Reagan of late, while Republicans have suddenly begun reassessing whether Reagan is the best role-model to follow as they seek a path back to power.
Powerful intelligence unit behind weekend victory
Reza Aslan joins the camp of people who describe Iran’s election results as a “slow moving military coup” against the clerical regime itself.
Newspoll — on trend or undercooked?
Rather than behave like the other two polls this week, Newspoll has decided to throw a spanner in the works with a two party preferred of 53/47 — a two point drop for the ALP.
James Hardie eyes off Emerald Isle
After eight disastrous years in The Netherlands, James Hardie has been registering company names in Ireland, writes Andrew Main.
Gerard Henderson's Media Watch Dog: In which George Negus sucks up to Lord Stern
Negus does the full fawn; Leigh Sales on Martin Luther’s Doubt and more in this week’s Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog
VB: no longer requires a “hard-earned thirst”
Victoria Bitter is dumping its famous tagline after 40 years. B & T’s inside info suggests their new ad campaign will attempt to be even more cliched than previously. Wow.
BusinessWeek mag to trial new online pay model
BusinessWeek magazine is set to trial a new model of paid online content, in which all their articles are still available free online, put paid subscribers will be able to view it in a print-like presentation. Talk about added value!
AP to distribute nonprofits’ investigative journalism
The Associated Press will deliver work by four nonprofit investigative journalism organisations as part of their service, expanding the groups’ audiences and plugging a content and staffing gap for the wire service.
Murdoch’s MySpace mistake
Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, but only four years later, the social networking site has been usurped by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, and faces plunging ad revenue and massive staff layoffs.
Iranian writer remains hopeful
The current protest “disproves the myth that the Iranian people want the extreme laws”. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, straight-talks about the election results.
