We don’t make men believe that “strength”, “pride”, “empowerment” and “inspiration” require them to strip in public, so why do women continue to believe it of themselves?
Catherine deveny
Why a tweet’s context is essential
We’ve seen a number of twitter “scandals” recently, all beaten up by the old media by taking it out of context, or pretending it was read by a much larger audience. Why is the context ignored? asks Jeremy Sear.
Review: Catherine Deveny’s God is Bullshit (MICF)
Catherine Deveny’s “comedy” show gives atheism a bad name. Atheists aren’t arrogant – they’re just smug, she claims. None more smug than her, writes Matt Smith.
Deveny plays the green eyed monster card
Comedian Catherine Deveny has again sandbagged her former employer, The Age, claiming at a Melbourne Writers Festival event that the newspaper sacked her because they were jealous and scared of her popularity.
Media briefs: Deveny goes Green? … mining the media conflict …
Catherine Deveny courts the Greens, no RSPT when it comes to mining media conflicts, The Age gets cheap and other media tidbits from around the traps.
Catherine Deveny: I’m dumped and I’m devastated
Catherine Deveny won’t let herself be defined by two tweets, as she lets loose at the Twitter scandal that got her sacked, those who get offended over free speech and why she writes for her kids.
Razer: Why I’m a Twitter quitter
Helen Razer was a prolific tweeter until she deleted her entire account following the Catherine Deveny debacle. The public boning and derailment was a little close to home.
#rogeringgerbils: Did Devine just pull a Deveny?
The SMH’s Miranda Devine has got the Twittersphere in a tizz after she accused a gay fellow tweep of “rogering [sic] gerbils”. So will Fairfax fire her, too? asks Dave Gaukroger.
Simons: The writes and wrongs of social networking
In light of the Deveny sacking, The Age would do well to get some guidelines for staff and contributors on the use of social media. Otherwise, nobody knows what the bosses encourage, and what they will punish.
Holmes: Deveny didn’t deserve the dumping
Jonathan Holmes weighs in on the Catherine Deveny sacking debacle, outing himself for his own controversial Logies tweeting from his official ABC account.
Guy Rundle: Evidently Deveny Town
A poem for Catherine Deveny. The fucking days are fucking long, it fucking gets you fucking down, evidently Deveny town…
Death by tweet: the Deveny dilemma faces every media practitioner
There’s no logic to The Age’s sacking of Catherine Deveny. But she won’t be the last casualty of Twitter.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Not all press is good press for Rudd
The widespread media thumping of the PM’s character, particularly on emissions trading seems to have had an effect. Perhaps people really do pay attention to political journalists!
Farrer: Twitter is Serious Business
After being sacked from The Age for offending people on Twitter, Catherine Deveny claimed “Twitter is online graffiti, not a news source.” Wrong, says Gordon Farrer: Twitter is very important, and very public.
Was The Age right to sack Deveny?
The Age’s sacking of outspoken columnist Catherine Deveny for remarks she made about the Logies on her personal Twitter feed over the weekend is gutless, says Jeremy Sear.
Catherine Deveny: Abbott’s my favourite lame, gay, churchy loser
Catherine Deveny loves Tony Abbott and she’s not ashamed to admit it. He’s the comedians’ gift that keeps on giving, especially with that whole budgie smuggling, Catholic, climate change sceptic, hemp yoghurt business.
Milne: Suffer in your jocks, Catherine Deveny: Chadstone loves Abbott
Green-voting social commentators like The Age’s Catherine Deveny may mock Tony Abbott and the Melbourne suburban heartland of Chadstone, but they both proved her wrong in the weekend’s by-elections, says Glenn Milne.
Devine, Albrechtsen, Deveny: rise of the “trollumnist”
Newspaper editors’ new schtick appears to be giving column inches to commentators whose words are controversial, but intellectually barren, says Jason Wilson. It may pull in more readers, but ultimately, it damages the masthead.
Suburban women are stupid and backwards
In her column this week, Catherine Deveny ventures out to view a performance by Australia’s own Manpower in suburban Doncaster. The entire article drips with sneering classism and contempt, says Dave Gaukroger
Deveny: marriage is a total crock
I am against gay marriage. I’m against straight marriage. I’m against marriage full stop. Why are we hanging on to this relic of an anachronistic system (which still reeks of misogyny and bigotry)? asks Catherine Deveny today.
Rundle: Henderson’s Media Watch Dog. Epic fail.
Guy Rundle rips apart Gerard Henderson’s new project: Media Watch Dog.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The Age’s Catherine Deveny was in fine form this morning.
Verdict 07 – An Occasional and wildly fanciful campaign diary – Part 13
The election campaign is a grinding horror…
Spike: the Meanjin blog / Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Andrew Bolt and other Australian male commentators are just as controversial and offensive as Catherine Deveny, but no one is talking of sacking them, says Sophie Cunningham.