Google has stopped censoring its search engine results in China today, in what Human Rights Watch has described as “a crucial moment for freedom of expression in China”.
March, 2010
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey’s election coverage
Crikey readers blast Crikey over our SA election coverage. Will you be seeing articles by Bill O’Reilly next week in Crikey? asks one reader.
Morning Market Report: A good day for the market
The market is up 41, and Wall St up 44. The Dow’s session started in the red but slowly moved into positive territory once the market fully digested Obama’s healthcare reform.
Westpac gets ready to gouge Australia
With so many Westpac stories in the media this morning, you’d be mistaken for thinking there was some sort of campaign under way.
The secret to Lisa Mitchell’s Amp success? The music, funnily enough
Critic and AMP judge Clem Bastow offers a inside perspective on the Australian Music Prize winner “controversy”: there is no great conspiracy.
Lies, lying liars and health funding graphs
When caught out, it’s a bad idea to admit you’re wrong. Especially on a website that your opponents are watching closely.
The doctor is in: debating tips for Abbott and Rudd
Debating tips from Professor Pat McGorry, Professor Ian Olver, Professor Kerin O’Dea and plenty more…
Tipsy fun-time with Crikey’s National Health Care Infrastructure Drinking Game
Let me just say this… Drink!
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: How low does Abbott’s manscaping go?
There is a very large picture of Tony Abbott on page 4 of today’s West Australian showing a very even strip of bare skin between the top of his budgie smugglers and the rug on his stomach. A waxer or a shaver?
Government 2.0 #fail — spending $43b on an NBN in secret
Senator Stephen Conroy is unable to release the NBN implementation report. Further evidence that truly participative Government 2.0 is still a long, long way off. What happened to open government, Rudd?
Political snippets: The news bite, not the debate, is what matters
Forget about the hour long health debate, what counts will be the 2-minute version shown on the evening news. Plus, booing the PM, and awkward guilty plea and other political news of the day.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Channel Four sting cuts to Labour’s hollow core
Three former UK cabinet ministers have been suspended from the Labour Party, after secretly-taped footage showed them talking openly about the possibility of using their contacts and influence for paying clients.
Spinning the media: PR insiders on their ‘return on investment’
The public relations industry has its own term for churnalism: return on investment journalism. Sasha Pavey explains how PR executives have worked the current economic climate to their advantage.
Video of the Day: Logorama
Logos come to life in this beautifully animated, Oscar-winning French short film. WARNING: Lots of naughty words.
This day in Crikey: Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Tuesday, March 23, 2004, The media and gangland timeline
Crikey Says: This smackdown doesn’t look much like change
The press gallery is scrubbing up in preparation for today’s Abbott v Rudd 12.30pm health debate.
ABBOTT v RUDD health smackdown, Google flouts China censorship, Rundle on UK MPs scandalgraph pr0n 
A century of American eating
The US Department of Agriculture looks at food availability and consumption in America over the past 100 years. It’s a fascinating look at how the Western diet has changed (in most cases, not for the better) over the last century.
YouTube’s magic moment
YouTube is a little sliver of a golden age, free access to a global cultural cornucopia. Jealous waifs in 2025 will be hearing stories, “When we were young, we had a magic pipeline: YouTube”, writes W.H. Chong.
How much of your daily news is PR? Find out now.
Is the news you’re reading the work of a journalist … or a PR agent? Read the our Key Findings of Crikey & ACIJ’s Spinning the Media investigation in one handy ebook.
Stand back, Nepal is going to blow
Nepal is at the crossroads of several key geologic fault lines and pressure has been building for hundreds of years. When the earthquake finally comes, expect it to be bigger than the ones that rocked Chile and Haiti.
The beauty of the @ symbol
The @ symbol has been added to the New York Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design collection — the design world’s equivalent of winning an Oscar. So what makes it so much better than, say, a &, % or #?
Gottliebsen: Giving the public service a serve
It’s time for a serious shake up of the Canberra public service. Good policies are being destroyed by incompetent management unable to deal with new or large plans, says Robert Gottliebsen.
