The Dow Jones closed down 265 overnight for its eighth straight fall and is down 6.9%
August, 2011
Morning Market Report: US debt deal can’t stop Dow Jones slide
Media briefs: ABC cuts memo … new NotW arrest … Fairfax hits record low …
The axe swung for ABC TV staff yesterday. TV head Kim Dalton breaks the bad news. Plus front page of the day and other media news from around the globe.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: State politics grabs headlines for a change
State politics finally got a look in this week after Federal issues dominating political coverage for several months.
Political snippets: Retail turnover gets a caning
These are certainly not boom times, with the ABS showing that Australian retail turnover fell 0.1% in June 2011, seasonally adjusted, following a fall of 0.6% the previous month.
Video of the Day: The Man Without a Facebook
In a hilarious spoof of Mel Gibson’s The Man Without a Face, what happens if someone doesn’t have a Facebook account? Can they have “real” friends?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Bank CEO in Labor tilt? Which big-four banking head is thinking about a run for Labor at the next federal poll? The rumour has been swirling for some time and we reckon it’s got some weight. Know any more? Guess who came to Blair’s dinner? Last week the business set was treated to a series […]
Crikey Says: Nothing you need to know, apparently
Last night Julia Gillard paid a visit to an annual News Limited gathering in Sydney.
Why keeps newspaper readers subscribing? Mostly just habit…
Over a third of regular newspaper subscribers in the US only do it out of habit. And over two thirds subscribe for the coupons that come with the paper.
podcast 
The 400 Club: the superhero edition
It’s a very superhero heavy episode of The 400 Club this week as Dave Owen, Simon Band, and Dan Barrett examine the Wonder Woman pilot, Thundercats, Iron Man, and Wolverine.
Tiger confronted with set of CASA demands
CASA has confirmed that it has finalised a set of conditions that it will impose on Tiger Airways’ Australian domestic subsidiary if the Singapore owned carrier is allowed to resume flights, writes Ben Sandilands.
Did the Tea Party win the debt debacle?
The New York Times gets together a panel of experts — including Glenn Greenwald, Lara M. Brown and Dan Schnur — to discuss whether the controversial Tea Party movement emerged as winners from the debt-ceiling deal.
Adios to the world’s most famous restaurant
After 25 years, Spain’s elBulli restaurant — the place that brought foams and smoke to the culinary world — closed its doors on the weekend. TIME magazine was there for the final fiesta.
What not to do as an intern
A handy guide for young creative types heading out to do internships. And no, it’s not quite the ‘be on time’ and ‘offer ideas’ guide that most usually are…
Having a bet on a double dip
It’s hard to know what to get more worried about — the United States entering territory where a return to recession is quite possible or a Europe where the financial turmoil is spreading apace to Italy and Spain.
Qantas goes to war with its pilots and shoots down John Travolta
John Travolta is the early casualty in the social media dogfight that has broken out between Qantas management and its pilots, with Qantas spiking Travolta’s ads spruiking the quality of Qantas pilots.
Uncovering long buried things in a Polish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery in Warsaw has long fascinated Jay Martin, with its unmarked graves and headstones piled in one corner. And then Jay discovered her own family connection…
The cinema of life: when a film triggers a memory and that memory becomes reality
Crikey film critic Luke Buckmaster reminisces on 15 years of film reviewing and explains what happened during the most surreal cinema experience of his life.
PHOTO GALLERY 
Skeletal, scared and dying: Somalian refugees flee to Kenya
A truly eye-opening photo gallery examining the malnutrition and starvation currently being experienced — by predominantly young children and the elderly — in the Horn of Africa.
How to interview a celebrity
Music journalist Jessica Misener tells a hilarious story in GIFs about what it’s really like to interview famous bands and pop stars.
As RBA mulls interest rates, housing decline is accelerating
Another rate rise might accelerate a decline in construction activity that shows no sign of slowing down.
Genetically engineered foods are not ‘science’
It is useful to revisit what “science” actually is, and what it isn’t, writes Greenpeace campaigner John Hepburn, on blog site Rooted
Benefits of health reform will be in decades ahead
The Government’s health reform package is far less than originally conceived, but it will deliver long-term benefits. The real beneficiaries will be the taxpayers of the next three decades.
