Rocky Pakistan terrain gets even more unstablePakistan’s military have taken a risky move: they’ve launched an offensive in the Taliban-Al Qaeda stronghold of South Waziristan. Will the move unleash a new wave of terror attacks in major cities?
October, 2009
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Who really breaks the big news?
New York Mag chose seven random news stories from a random day, and tracked them backwards to determine who was actually responsible for the individual pieces of original reporting that advanced each one. Then they charted it. Brilliant.
Family ties: the curse of sports fans
Last week, Neil Walker did something far worse to his four-year-old son than hitting him with a wooden spoon: he took him to his first football match.
How much did Gawker pay for its Balloon Boy exclusive?
Media gossip site and unapologetic fans of chequebook journalism Gawker beat the mainstream media to the weekend’s big scoop with its exclusive “I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax” — but how much did they pay for the privilege?
Newsweek‘s cut-out-and-keep Halloween masks
Stuck for a Halloween costume this year? Newsweek makes some news-worthy suggestions and even provides masks you can print out and wear, including Balloon Boy, Bernie Madoff, Lady Gaga or, for a team effort, Kanye West and Taylor Swift.
graph pr0n Push vs. Pull: asylum seeker numbers and statistics
While Pull Factors most likely have some relatively small effect the numbers of boat people seeking asylum in Australia, they are overwhelmingly swamped by Push Factors, says Possum Comitatus.
John Stamos: “I was f-ing drunk” on Kerri-Anne
Actor John Stamos finally comes clean on That Kerr-Anne appearance: “Yes, I was on sleeping pills and I was jet-lagged but I was also just plastered.” Another media mystery solved.
Crikey Says: The parallel universe of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull’s finally got the green light from the Coalition to negotiate on the ETS. Too bad all the party politics means the key issue gets ignored.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Readers say ‘Oh shit’
Crikey readers weigh in on Queenslanders love of the word Queensland and their ‘oh-shit’ climate change moments. Plus, Greg Rudd clears up his relationship with Auzcorp.
Morning Market Report: Dollar and market down
The Aussie dollar fell to 91.41c — the weaker-than-expected seeing the market down 58, while Wall Stwas also down, 67.
Political economy: There’s no recession in Washington
Henry Thornton is in Washington, where the public servants, politicians and lobbyists are buying like there’s no tomorrow.
China rebound in the bag
The Chinese economy is now doing better than at any time during the past year. Will investors look at how well placed Australia is to benefit from their growth?
Spending borrowed monies leads to false bravado
If you were to believe world stock markets, the recession is drawing to a close, with the wisdom of government spending and global monetary easing spurring the world to another economic recovery. But the markets have long proven to be an unfaithful talisman.
Brits and Greeks move to tax banks
Greek and British governments are eying special taxes on the bank profits to help boost income and reduce debt bills, while Ireland may be forced to go to the IMF for aid if it can’t make deep cuts in spending.
Starsuckers: British tabloids caught in the act by filmmakers
The sewers of London’s tabloid newspapers are explored in a documentary film called Starsuckers Predictably, the silence of the tabloids has been deafening.
Coalition CPRS plan will cost $20 billion
The sheer cost of the Coalition’s CPRS demands — $1.6b in the first full year and over $20b between now and 2020 — will be the biggest problem as Penny Wong and Ian Macfarlane sit down to negotiate this afternoon.
Sports, TV and anti-siphoning laws: tripe for the picking
Major sporting organisations claim that anti-siphoning laws are bad for viewers, Foxtel argue it would be bad for sporting codes to have their sports shown to as many people as possible, and Rupert Murdoch is threatening to force his US cable rivals to pay him for carrying his Fox TV network.
Media briefs: Internet kleptomaniacs give back … Internet piracy sets sail forever
Online news aggregators launch their own Angel Networks, John Stamos finally stammers the drunken truth on his Kerri-Anne appearance, the Taliban embraces social media, and more.
Pay TV’s biggest nightmare is GO
Nine Network’s new channel GO last night hit a unique milestone: it equalled the share of SBS’s main analogue channel. Was it just because last night didn’t have any high profile sports events?
Mateship gets a push in the new citizenship test
The new test preparation booklet Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond, while more tempered than its predecessor, still has its problems, writes Kerry Ryan.
Tips and rumours: Tips and Rumours: Staff vs. editor at The Advertiser
How has the The Advertiser mess between staff and editor played out since last week’s Crikey story? Plus, Myer gossip.
Chilling out on Jetstar: cash grab or coincidence?
Flying Jetstar? Pack a pashima, because if one Crikey reader’s complaint is correct, they may try and freeze the loose change out of your pockets.
