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Australia’s business leaders spout the same pre-budget talking points about the economy over and over again, and The AFR happily parrots them, argue Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane. Bottoms up!

The “babes” of TV news fire back at The Age over a provocative op-ed by Geoffrey Barker. Plus, The Australian Financial Review’s new show and other media news.

Editors at The Australian Financial Review have hit back at claims there is creeping advertorial in the business paper, after dismissing journalist Paddy Manning for public criticism.

Fairfax journalist Paddy Manning fears the incursion of The Australian Financial Review in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He writes scathingly of his employer for Crikey.

Andrew Bolt certainly likes to talk about freedom of speech, but when it comes down to it, he only wants that freedom for those who agree with him.

After four years, The Punch is being subsumed into part of News Ltd. Is it about time? Plus a distinct lack of fact-checking at The AFR.

All the latest from the ABC staff-elected director race. And other media tidbits.

The Australian Financial Review cares deeply what Pauline Hanson thinks, according to its front page.

Longer, softer Meet The Press. The creeping takeover of the Ten Network by the Murdoch media empire continues. Not content to have an increasing proportion of its prime-time schedule in the hands of Shine and Fox — both controlled by News — Ten plans to outsource an expanded Meet The Press to News Limited. While Ten will have “editorial […]

Margaret Simons responds to articles in The Australian today criticising her reporting of the Cameron Stewart/Simon Artz affair in Crikey. And other juicy media tidbits.

Fairfax’s The Australian Financial Review will adopt the same subscription strategy online as The New York Times — but will it have the same positive impact?

A thaw in the Packer-SMH war … weak weekend ad numbers in the papers … can’t differentiate between African cities? …

It’s the Asian century, so why is nobody there covering it? The AFR continues to bleed advertising revenue. And the offensive headline on The Daily Telegraph website.

Obviously The Age struggles with Mandarin as much as Tony Abbott, because the raw footage shown above the article on Kevin Rudd’s speech doesn’t correspond with the translation that appeared.

Not merely did The Australian Financial Review ad woes continue over the weekend, it found itself scooped on its key area of coverage, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.

A case of the Abbott attacks in The Australian Financial Review … the autotuned debate between Romney and Obama (with a big TV audience) … investors line up to slap News Corp …

The domestic economy isn’t the basis for the RBA’s judgment about interest rates this afternoon, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.

In today;s Media Briefs: AFR + FT still misses PMI … Rundle: the pollies bludging on Twitter … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Ratings up for US Olympics broadcaster NBC …