The Australian’s media commentator Mark Day has a shot at Crikey today and comes off the worse for wear, writes Margaret Simons.
September, 2009
The not-so-happy Valley
Remember that there is no such thing as smart money on the racecourse, writes TP Maher.
Political snippets: Turnbull or Nelson? It’s all the same to the polls
There’s one message we can take from the consistency of the opinion polls. Sacking Brendan Nelson to put in Malcolm Turnbull as head of the Liberal Party did not work.
What if it’s not the economy, stupid?
Kevin Rudd claimed that neo-liberalism was no longer the dominant paradigm for governments and he was right. But can he extend his critique to those left-over policies that have not been appropriately looked at?
Climate report biased against Australia
A report today says Australia is the worst polluter of carbon dioxide in the world. But what do you expect from a coal-rich large land mass with few people who need to cover large distances?
ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering
The underlying Australian internet censorship process is unworkable, and always will be. Opponents of the filter are busy proving it, with complaints about iTunes selling MA15+ films without requiring age verification.
Three out of 10 air traffic controllers equals chaos
There appear to be more media managers and image massagers than Sydney controllers on the AirServices Australia payroll, with only three air traffic controllers available at Sydney Airport yesterday.
Guy Rundle: The issue that’s not allowed online
The issue that gets everyone everywhere into trouble is forthright criticism of Israel.
Allan Kessing: my side of the story
After four years, three barristers and over $70,000 wasted I am a convicted felon, writes whistleblower Allan Kessing.
Turnbull exhumes rotting corpse of WorkChoices
Just in case the Government might run out of attack points in Parliament this week, Malcolm Turnbull has decided to exhume the rotting corpse of WorkChoices to see how badly it smelt.
Obama needs to review Afghanistan ASAP
Foreign troops in Afghanistan are increasingly being seen as foreign invaders, says a former US national security adviser. How can the US Alliance ensure it doesn’t repeat the Soviet Union’s mistakes in Afghanistan?
Play Crikey’s Question Time Bingo
You usually have to pay for fun this good. Download First Dog’s Bingo cards, put on a cuppa and join the Crikey team from 2pm.
How Anna Wintour reclaimed her crown
Notorious ice queen Vogue editor Anna Wintour has taken all the bad press about her magazine and herself and turned it on its head with the successful gamble that was documentary The September Issue, says Tina Brown.
Can a URL be defamation?
Embattled Fox News host Glenn Beck has set his lawyers upon the creators of glennbeckrapedand murderedayounggirlin1990.com. It’s certainly a meme too far, but does he have a case for defamation?
Video of the Day: Matching wines with breakfast cereals
A Riesling for your Rice Bubbles? A drop of Grenache for your Granola? How about a Sav Blanc for your Special K? Wine expert Gary Vaynerchuk pairs three wines with three breakfast cereals.
December double dissolution threat a joke
It’s credible that Kevin Rudd might call an early double dissolution election. But the suggestion that the government would push for it really early, by recalling the Senate in December, is ludicrous. Andrew Bartlett explains why.
Who will be the next ambassador to the US?
Obama’s pal Jeff Bleich was announced as the new US ambassador to Australia. Dennis Atkins speculates on the contenders for the plum job of Australian ambassador to the US.
Stale, mate: Mark Day’s Crikey criticism is outdated
Today in The Australian, Mark Day criticises Crikey for being a pest akin to Kyle Sandilands. Why? Because we complained to the Press Council about News Limited’s publication of those supposed Pauline Hanson pictures. The comparison is nonsensical, says Margaret Simons who returns to blogging today.
Readership vs. circulation: the numbers that matter
It’s the perennial question for publishers and advertisers; which is more important: circulation — the number of copies of your publication being sent out into the wilderness — or readership — the number of people actually reading it? Audit Bureau chief Gordon Towell weighs in.
graph pr0n How the financial giants crumbled
In a great piece of data visualisation, The New York Times charts the fall and rise of American finance giants following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The Nobel Prize field guide
Ahead of next month’s Nobel Prizes, the WSJ looks at the movers and shakers in the science world with the potential to be named as Nobel laureates.
Business as usual on Wall St
It’s now a year since Lehman Brothers collapsed and the world was plunged into financial crisis. So how has Wall St changed and grown from the crash to prevent future economic disaster? It hasn’t.
Washington is the new Wall St
Wall St is no longer the financial capital of the USA, says the Washington Post. Since the country’s economy was plunged into crisis a year ago and the government intervened to prevent total carnage, the new financial power-players and puppet masters are all in Washington.
Rudd: Howard wasted his boom time wealth
In PM Kevin Rudd’s latest op-ed, he reaffirms his idea that the Howard Government “squandered” their chance to reform, but assures us his government won’t do the same.
