This interesting time-lapse video covers 12,000 New York Times website homepages, from September 2010 to July 2011. It’s hard to follow anything but the main flickering picture, which is dominated by the Chilean miners, Egyptian protests, Japan’s earthquake and … baseball and basketball.
July, 2011
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Jobs to go at Optus. Optus staff are preparing for redundancies to be announced today. At least five from consumer marketing, we hear, and more from other areas. Which bank is under pressure? The Commonwealth Bank is offering more redundancies in its institutional banking & markets division, we hear. With foreign exchange sales apparently underperforming […]
Crikey Says: Policy meets politics
Australia is accepting an additional 4000 refugees from Malaysia. This is to be applauded.
The end of emperor Murdoch
The cast of characters embroiled in the News of the World phone hacking scandal is long — from PM David Cameron to a murdered 13-year-old school girl. But it’s the role of CEO Rupert Murdoch that’s the most damning…
Hamlet by the MTC
He’s been dead for almost 400 years, but Shakespeare still knows how to work a dastardly revenge tale with the Melbourne Theatre Company’s latest rendition of Hamlet, writes Siobhan Argent.
Stephen Fry brings QI Down Under
British treasure Stephen Fry is bringing his popular television quiz show to Australia, in a limited run of ‘live on stage!’ specials, writes Matt Smith.
$10 million to drive fear and greed on carbon price
Multi-billion dollar vested interest groups launched their $10 million “no campaign” against a price on pollution on the weekend to fight a campaign of confusion and misinformation, writes Sophie Trevitt from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
Thai and Virgin Australia fly too low
Two separate aviation incidents — one involving Virgin Australia flying too low at Mackay airport, the other Thai Airways flying too low at Melbourne — are being investigated by the ATSB, says Ben Sandilands.
Welcome to the Malaysian Solution
Crikey media wrap: The government yesterday announced the details of its Malaysian Solution policy, a plan it hopes will diminish the number of asylum seekers arriving on our coastlines by boat.
Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse and addiction
Ex-drug addict and comedian Russell Brand writes an obit-of-sorts to his friend Amy Winehouse: “the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound”.
The internet is such an angry place
The interwebs is a breeding ground for anonymous vitriol aimed at personal targets. But why can people can ignore social norms and unleash foulness they wouldn’t dare to say to someone’s face in real life? Tim Adams investigates the trolls.
Fairfax staff vote for strike action on pay
Fairfax staff on The Age and The SMH are mulling whether to hit the barricades after a Fair Work Australia ballot showed 96% of union voters supported taking industrial action over stalled negotiations.
Norway: the campers on the other side of the lake
A group of campers next to a lake in Norway were having a quiet afternoon when terrified teenagers appeared from the water explaining that a gunman was killing people on the island just 600m from them. The campers immediately jumped into a boat…
Kohler: Gillard’s incurable retail affliction
Relations between the federal government and business are as bad as they’ve been for 40 years, and it’s not just because of the proposed carbon tax.
Broadmeadows asylum seekers sew lips together, post Facebook pics
Yesterday three asylum seekers at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) in Broadmeadows sewed their lips together and posted the photos on Facebook, writes freelance journalist Greg Foyster.
Vive Cadel … the rider who came in from the cold
Evans would be the first to suggest that a lot of excess baggage has now been removed from his world.
Norway massacre: it’s not a Muslim name
I will reflect instead on those Muslims and non-Muslims who lost their lives on Utoya and elsewhere, writes Shakira Hussein on The Stump.
Peace deal? Tasmanian forest wars descend into high farce
Land use in Tasmania is being determined by vested interests and pressure groups that do not actually own or manage any of the resource, writes Bruce Montgomery, former Tasmanian correspondent of The Australian
Essential: trust in media slumps following phone hacking
Trust in commercial media outlets has slumped in the wake of the phonehacking scandal, Essential has found.
Richardson: if this isn’t terrorism, what is?
In addition to the horror of Friday’s slaughter in Norway, there has been the secondary shock of what it has revealed about so much of the west’s attitude to terrorism.
Guy Rundle: Into the abyss of the Norway massacre
The Oslo massacre was turning out to be an abyss, the sadistic mass murder of the young — but there its resemblance to a high school massacre ended.
Politics of NBN pricing: comparing potatoes and pomegranates
I dream of a time when mainstream reporting of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is based on the plentiful facts and documents already published and rational analysis thereof, not the re-bleating of shrill spin from politicians and ideologues.
Financial planners talk candidly about wealth management
An angry debate among financial planners has revealed some of the serious problems in the wealth management industry.
