Crikey

8 Comments

1. Heathdon McGregor
   Posted Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 8:50 am | Permalink

   My favourite Richard Wilkins error, apart from the greatest game show ever- Keynotes!, is when for an April fools day joke triple j ran a story on their breakfast news that due to the slowness of infrastructure the olympics have been taken off Sydney.

   Mr Wilkins reported it on Nine

2. observer
   Posted Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 9:06 am | Permalink

   “as Stephen Colbert and actor Jeff Goldblum mocks …”

   It should be “mock” - plural.

3. gnosis
   Posted Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 9:09 am | Permalink

   It wasn’t so long ago John Howard was featured on the Colbert Report over his remarks about an Obama win being a win for terrorists. He’s in good gaffe company there.

4. Brian Kelly
   Posted Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

   What a complete goose Wilkins is. At no time did New Zealand police confirm Jeff Goldblum’s “death”. A simple phonecall to New Zealand police would have discovered this. Wilkins is such a good reporter he doesn’t bother to confirm, in the simplest of ways, any of his “news flashes”. There’s one born every minute but I think for ten minutes before Wilkin’s birth none was born so he had to make up for it.

5. Jeremy Sear
   Posted Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

   Did New Zealand police confirm the original URL?

6. Brian Kelly
   Posted Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 1:01 am | Permalink

   Jeremy, They did not at any stage announce or confirm Goldblum’s “death”. Given he was not even in the country at the time, how could they.

7. David Noble
   Posted Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 8:15 am | Permalink

   Jeremy, you can google it easy enough - Crikey didn’t work for me either.

8. Jeremy Sear
   Posted Sunday, 5 July 2009 at 10:49 am | Permalink

   Uh - look above at the URL. They got the show wrong at first (TDS instead of TCR).