Crikey readers have their say.
November, 2011
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Renewables are the way of the future
Media briefs: News Ltd clears News Ltd … 29 journos named in NotW claim … Underbelly sued …
Today’s NT News reports that US President Barack Obama has taken out crocodile insurance ahead of his brief Top End visit. Plus other media news of the day.
Political snippets: Aussies have not stopped spending
Australians might be prudently paying down their credit cards a little (see yesterday’s chunky bits) but they have not completely stopped spending.
Video of the Day: David Cameron impersonates Julia Gillard
UK Prime Minister David Cameron busts out an attempt of Julia Gillard’s accent when discussing their meeting at CHOGM. It doesn’t sound overly Australian but he does use the word “sheila”.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: no excuse for ignorance when it comes to West Papua
At least two journalists have been killed in West Papua, five abducted and 18 assaulted in the past year.
Brazil’s biggest slum no longer under drug cartel control
It took 3000 members of Brazil’s security forces to take control back of the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janiero from drug cartels. The favela “pacification” is part of preparations for the 2014 World Cup.
Can new leaders end the eurozone debt crisis?
Weeks of political upheaval resulted in both Greece and Italy getting new heads of government. But the replacements will have to face the same difficult economic circumstances that killed the political careers of their former leaders, says Michael S
The war on the Internet: a Crikey Live event 
This is Chelsea Clinton, reporting for NBC News
Chelsea Clinton — yes, daughter of Bill and Hillary — has been hired by NBC as a full-time special correspondent for its “Making a Difference” segment on the nightly news.
Indonesia’s silent genocide
For a country so close to Australia, so few Australian citizens remain aware of the genocide that is taking place less than 50 miles beyond the country’s northern shores, says Benny Wanda.
Birmingham: Stop reading the news
Don’t listen to what’s happening in Europe. Don’t watch updates on natural disasters overseas from your safe house in Australia. Your worrying isn’t fixing the world, so stop doing it, argues John Birmingham.
album review Ben Lee’s latest: Deeper Into Dream
Never mind the greatest Australian album of all time. Deeper Into Dream isn’t even the best Ben Lee album ever. If he thinks differently someone should tell him he’s dreaming, says Neil Walker.
Bird of the Week: a Eurasian Hoopoe
Australian birders — well some of the twitchier variety anyway — have been all in a lather since the recorded arrival late last week of a single Eurasian Hoopoe at the Roebuck Plains Roadhouse, writes Bob Gosford.
The Power Index 
Leader of Google in Oz, Nick Leeder
Nick Leeder gets told what to do by his Google masters in Silicon Valley. But the local MD of one of the world’s most powerful organisations has got the numbers to have a voice on the future of digital media in Australia, says Angela Priestley.
The A340 becomes a travel collectible
Although Airbus has closed the A340 production line, it is likely to continue serving several routes of importance to Australian travellers for some years to come, explains Ben Sandilands.
Home births: don’t just focus on the statistics
Home birth will not go away, it is here to stay, so let us all share the responsibility for making it safe and satisfying, as should be our goal with all maternity care options, says associate professor of midwifery Hannah Dahlen.
theatre reviews The Dark Room — Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
Starring Brendan Cowell as a hardened cop, Angela Betzien’s play The Dark Room, directed by Leticia Caceres, amounts to 80 minutes of extraordinary in-your-face emotional and theatrical intensity, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Ratings Test
The Glenn Dyer breakdown: Copy Tonight: Copy The top 10 national programs (metro & regional combined): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Winners: Copy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. The Losers: Copy News & CA: […]
When citizen journalists become war photographers
The war in Libya was full of young freelance journalists and photographers. But what happens when a war zone is full of inexperienced youngsters who don’t work for a news organisation with a safety focus?
Essential: the Gillard (semi) recovery edition
Julia Gillard has turned around her negative momentum with voters, but Tony Abbott continues to go the wrong way, today’s Essential Report finds.
The right time for a left revival in cash-strapped Europe
Despite all the talk of crisis, there has been no sign of Europeans rejecting orthodox economic consensus that blames unsustainable levels of government debt and warns that recovery is going to be painful.
The campaign to rid anonymous comments from the internet
Crikey / Monday, 14 November 2011
The Communications Council, which represents the advertising industry, would like the trade press to ban all anonymous comments. Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes goes inside the debate.