There’s a lesson from Swinburne University’s exercise. Loads of great stories get missed by the mainstream media, write Margaret Simons, Andrew Dodd and Denis Muller.
October, 2010
How to fix the systemic corrosion of the public service
We should return to the pre-1984 situation in which department secretaries have unambiguous responsibility for “the department and all the business thereof”, writes Paul Barratt, a former secretary to the departments of Defence and Primary Industries and Energy.
Why Packer’s Ten thing is just like buying a car
James Packer’s Ten purchase is probably more of a punt than any influence to become a genuine mogul.
Were Kristy Fraser-Kirk’s PR advisers snoozing on the job?
It seems rather ironic that the former DJ publicist — and her publicist, Anthony McClellan, from AMC Media — either didn’t anticipate or failed to prevent a storm of adverse publicity surrounding her case.
Come in Spinner: Come in Spinner: inside the prolific Vatican PR outfit
For an organisation that prides itself on its millennia-long view of the world, heaven and all things in between, the Vatican certainly spends a lot of time focused on day-to-day public relations.
Senate race snapshot: Illinois
With Illinois’s moderate voters up for grabs, the GOP Senate candidate avoids the blooper reel, writes Alan Mascarenhas from Illinois
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: If we continue to tread water on Afghanistan, we’ll drown
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Markets rebound, Ten releases Financial Year result
Ten Network releases their FY result today. Lots of press this morning regarding Packer’s intentions
Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: a melancholy album to savour
Wilderness Heart, Black Mountain’s third record, is the Canadians’ most commercially affable work, says Luke Robert. The carefree, bliss rock featured on previous records has been buffed and polished, the shoeshine-rag doused in an impulsive melancholy.
Media briefs: Walkley back-slapping … is the Globe for sale? …
Walkley Award nominations are less about the journalists recognised and more about the crowing self-congratulations from media companies. Plus Tow Cowie, and our new favourite newspaper…
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Chris Bowen; not quite as popular as Mary MacKillop
The biggest mover of all was Chris Bowen, with the announcement on moving some families in detention into the community while they are being processed
Political snippets: Banking on the bashed banks to return fire
Watching the captains of finance turning on the Liberal Party will be even more entertaining than miners savaging Labor.
Video of the Day: Adam Bandt’s speech on Afghanistan
While Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were locked in “furious agreement” about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan, independent MP Andrew Wilkie and Greens MP Adam Bandt provided — gasp! — a different opinion, calling for the withdrawal of Australian troops. Here is Bandt’s speech.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Fairfax exec pay inflames wage wars. While Fairfax Community Newspapers employees consider Fairfax’s miserly pay offer of 2%, former Rural Press (now Fairfax) senior executives responsible for massive cost-cutting across all Fairfax mastheads have themselves been gorging on massive pay rises. The Rural Press merger with Fairfax has lined the pockets of former rank-and-file Rural […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says: welcome to The Brumby Dump
As the Victorian state election looms on the horizon, you’d think the media would have every detail of government policy, outcomes and process fixed firmly under their microscope.
Sky News Australia via Ten? Pretty Unlikely
Recent speculation that James Packer will axe one of Ten’s sports channels and replace it with a Sky News service is very pie in the sky and takes some considerable liberties with common sense, writes Dan Barrett.
Just who is China’s replacement President?
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping is due to become the nation’s leader in 2012, but remarkably little is known about him. Two things are clear, however: he’s ideologically conservative and has a glamorous wife, writes Willy Lam.
If they click “like,” will they vote?
Incumbent Floridan Republican Alan Grayson is behind in the polls but he has more than six times as many Facebook fans as his challenger, which begs the question: how great an impact will social networking have on the ballot box?
Interview: Elsie de Brauw on Opening Night
Elsie de Brauw stars in Opening Night, the renowned stage adaptation of John Cassavete’s 1977 film. At the Melbourne International Arts Festival de Brauw sat down to chat with Andrew Fuhrmann.
Neuroscientists diagnose Gap’s lambasted logo
When American clothing brand Gap changed its logo the company attracted a tirade of online vitriol, so they changed it back. Why did the public respond to savagely? American Neuroscientists claim they know the answer.
Why the media are misreporting the midterms
The US press quickly lost interest in Obama’s health care and bank battles and are now stuffing the midterms by under-selling key reforms and struggling to comprehend the strange beast of the Tea Party, writes Howard Kurt.
The mining stoush: it ain’t over yet
The deal Julia Gillard cut last year with the big three mining companies - BHP, Rio Tinto and Xstrata - is reportedly under threat of unraveling, with the PM and the three companies embroiled in a dispute about whether refund royalties should apply retrospectively.
