Palestine is better off without AbbasMany are lamenting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s decision not to stand for re-election as the end for a chance at peace in the Middle East. Saree Makdisi is not one of them.
November, 2009
It’s chocolate vs cheese in the Kraft and Cadbury food fight
Kraft has made another hostile $US16.4 billion bid to buy out Cadbury. Will Cadbury accept the offer, amid protests that it’s not enough? Will Kraft raise the price, even though it has no rivals?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A climate change leadership challenge
Crikey readers weigh in who would be the best leader for climate change in Australia and how important climate change is. Plus, readers clarify a few of our latest tips.
Climate change: the Coalition’s new Hansonism
There’s a number of similarities between Howard-era Hansonism and climate denialism, but the biggest similarity is that both mean big trouble for the Coalition.
Morning Market Report: Aussie dollar continues its rise
The Aussie dollar continued its rise — up to 93c compares to 92.20c yesterday. The market is up 59, while Wall St closed up 204.
Tilts, taunts, shaftings and media moguls
Yesterday’s Seven Network AGM produced the biggest booty of interesting exchanges that its billionaire proprietor Kerry Stokes has ever served up.
Political snippets: In praise of Gary Morgan’s common sense
Richard Farmer wishes the Morgan Poll had the same influence on journalists as Newspoll does today, marvels at the literal expansion of Uganda, hugs some babies and takes a punt on the future of sports betting.
GM corn still approved here despite Europe, Kiwi concerns
A genetically modified variety of corn remains approved for use in Australia, despite the withdrawal of applications for approval in Europe and serious concerns about its assessment raised by a New Zealand university research team.
Summer in November at the ABC: it just shouldn’t happen
Mark Scott has the well-supported ambition of making the ABC into something more than just a national broadcaster. It is starting to happen in some bits, but in others it resembles a sheltered workshop. Part-time current affairs is no longer good enough.
Fairfax to rule out locking up news websites?
Listen out for the sound of the Murdoch minions reacting to the cold water Fairfax Media CEO Brian McCarthy has just poured on the idea of paid content news websites at the Fairfax AGM this morning.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Rudd’s media management continues
What did journalist Sandra O’Malley write about Rudd’s trip to India that was enough to send him into a rage and attempt to ban future background briefings for overseas trips?
Crikey Says: Paywalls: the tricky trouble with the internets
Rupert Murdoch has had a lot to say lately about the internet, and how a modern media mogul might milk it for corporate gain. Luckily, we can milk it right back.
Corporate governance: wild west may finally be getting tamed
Investors are continuing to vent their anger at executives and directors’ salaries, with shareholders in mining company Western Areas last week revolting over lucrative remuneration arrangements granted to directors.
Dear Rupert, this is how the internet works. Google it.
Rupert Murdoch may be rich, clever and influential, but his plan to remove News Corp content from Google’s index is just daft. If he wants us to read his stories, let alone pay for them, we have to be able to find them first.
Media briefs: A story you won’t read in The Oz … Caution: undies or no undies?
Here’s a story about the New York Post that you’ll never read in The Australian. Plus, another classic NT News vox pop and other media land news.
Fairfax a ‘laughing stock’ over Evans conflict
It took two years for the Fairfax Board to realise that David Evans, one of its members, was in breach of the law by being a director of both Fairfax Media and Village Roadshow. Just another example of poor governance at Fairfax?
Times changing rapidly in the Middle East
In the context of a stagnated “peace process” and ongoing colonial expansion that makes a two-state solution practically impossible, the Greens are re-assessing their current policy on the Israel/Palestine conflict.
ABC board no longer in the orbit of Planet Janet
Right-wing commentator Janet Albrechtsen, a controversial appointee by the Howard government, will not be reappointed to the ABC Board when her term expires in February.
NAB survey: Economy gathering pace
Is it time to take the foot off the stimulus pedal? Today’s NAB business survey reveals what it calls the “remarkable ongoing strength” in business confidence and there’s been a rapid rise in business conditions.
Letter from...: Fall of the Berlin Wall: the 20th anniversary
The overzealous, over-event-managed celebration of 2009 — with circuitous, one-way routes, logjam entries and cops with machine guns — was a strange ossification of the spontaneity of 1989, writes Ben Gook from Berlin.
The Newspoll numbers The Australian won’t print
The Australian appears to have decided to not publish the results of an opinion poll on voting intention in the wake of last week’s outlier that had Malcolm Turnbull gaining ground on Kevin Rudd.
Murdoch visits, spends a week talking to himself
Why do we keep listening to Rupert Murdoch? Is it because he doesn’t let us stop, with all interviews conducted by either employees or employees of an arm of News, directly or indirectly.
