Just look at how the tabloids have been feasting on this story from the first insult and how they’re still gorging on it today, savoring every last morsel.
Articles by Andrew Dodd 
The tangled Chaser chain of responsibility
The responsibility for authorising last week’s controversial edition of The Chaser has become less clear cut with revelations that the head of ABC TV, Kim Dalton, attended the green room after taping.
News Ltd’s Terminator
In yet another sign of the times, News Limited has openly advertised in its national broadsheet for a Svengali-like figure to do the dirty work of sacking staff and designing restructures.
Food fight! Durack and Dupleix head to Fairfax
The news that Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix are joining Fairfax has been met with the sort of po-faced looks which only uptight foodies can manage — as if they’ve eaten a dog turd instead of a truffle.
Trust to fund publication of stories the media neglects
An experiment in new media journalism was launched today, and we’re not talking about Punch…
newspaper death watch News Limited’s future: leaner, meaner and tighter
The true extent of the job losses at News Limited is becoming clearer with details emerging from Queensland which reveal how each of the states will centralise their operations to cut costs.
“Beer mat Mum” follows media script to perfection
The latest tabloid beat-up suggests the Australian media will grab any chance it can to condemn the authorities of our Asian neighbours, especially if it involves beer.
News Ltd features enter a brave new — centralised — world
The restructure of News Limited’s tabloid feature sections reveals the industry is reliant on centralisation, as well as further job cuts and the loss of local content, in its efforts to reinvent itself.
Tele’s Hanson apology laughable
Considering the extent of the defamation against Pauline Hanson by the Sunday Telegraph, the apology published by the Sydney tabloid on the weekend seems almost laughable.
Arrests as Tasmania’s old growth forest heads to the chainsaw
22 protesters were arrested in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley. Andrew Dodd was there.
Pagemasters takes on the jobs Fairfax rejects
Australian company Pagemasters is successfully doing deals with ailing media companies to provide what used to be seen as core functions for newspapers.
What would you pay for a Costello column?
Is Peter Costello a paid Fairfax contributor? Staff want to know.
Senator John Kerry’s quest to save American newspapers
John Kerry will next week open hearings of the subcommittee on communication and technology in an effort to staunch the massive losses in US newspapers.
Plimer’s Heaven and Earth: a conservative coup?
Crikey / Andrew Dodd / Monday, 20 April 2009
The attention paid to climate-change sceptic Ian Plimer’s book, Heaven and Earth, is a cute insight into the way conservative commentators are starved for shreds of evidence to support their theories.