The Tele’s Katherine Keating story is part of an old media game, says Margaret Simons: provoke a public figure, then make their reaction the news
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Crikey Says: Poor Packer has had a gutful this morning
It was fat puns aplenty at News Limited this morning, with lots of unflattering photos running of rival media mogul James Packer. What point were they trying to make exactly?
The story the Daily Tele didn’t want you to read
Two years ago, The Daily Telegraph published four stories about former Liberal candidate for the seat of Cook, Michael Towke, which he says defamed him and destroyed his political career. The Tele tried to buy his silence. They failed.
What is Chris Masters doing at the Tele?
The doyen of Australian investigative journalists, Chris Masters, has a new gig at the Daily Tele. How did they get him and what is going to happen next?
John Howard transforming NRL: there goes the black fan base
Rugby league has been a dying game for many, many years — is John Howard really the man to revamp it? It makes even less sense when you consider a large percentage of the hard-core league fan-base is black.
Dial O for Outrage
The Australian Families Association has denounced John Safran’s new TV show as “filth” in the Daily Tele today — but it hasn’t even aired yet. Does the Tele have “moral panic” on speed dial? asks Dave Gaukroger.
Political snippets: Footy fever spreads
It’s not surprising that football is front page news today, since it’s that week in September. But, it is surprising that they feature in the editorials in both the Hun and the Tele.
Daily Tele settles Blomfield defamation suit
A day after emails between former Daily Tele editor David Penberthy and Vivienne Dye were tendered as evidence in the Blomfield vs. News Limited sexual harassment defamation case, it was settled out of court.
Editor on a G-string: the Penberthy-Dye emails
A defamation action against the Daily Telegraph reveals a little of the inner world of its former editor.
Wankley Awards: Daily Tele’s hermaphrodite
exclusive
The Daily Tele has broken a whopping world exclusive today: South African runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite… maybe someone should tell her?
Is Della Bosca’s sex life really a public interest story?
With The Daily Tele’s eagerness to break the John Della Bosca sex scandal and destroy his political career, what will this mean for future issues involving politicians, privacy and matters of public interest?
The secret affair story that brought down Della Bosca
The Daily Telegraph exclusive that brought an abrupt end to the career of NSW MP John Della Bosca.
Circulations wrap: calm down Rupert, things aren’t that bad here
While Fairfax and News Ltd papers are suffering nasty falls in ad revenues, recent figures of Australian newspapers show small, but not fatal falls in some cases and small rises in others.
Guy Rundle: Blair cheers on the barmy army
Australia’s brief rally in that pointless nineteenth-century game — the Afghan war, not the Ashes though the latter term fits — has made Tim Blair all excited.
Wankley Awards: “Wonderful koala” reporting
This week’s coveted Wankley Award goes to the “national mourning” for Sam the koala — a furry symbol of hope, survival and the way the Aussie media never let the facts get in the way of a ripping feel good yarn.
Kyle’s contract and the crew he took along for the ride
The Daily Telegraph has long been a willing fan, reporter and exploiter of the Kyle and Jackie O style of shock jocking, but is now running a holier-than-thou campaign against the pair without a shred of embarrassment.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … a badly cooked story
The Wankley this week goes to the itchy trigger fingers of the Daily Telegraph website editors, who were so eager to get the scoop on the MasterChef finale, they ran the story early and with the wrong winner.
Backseat drivers: News Ltd and Utegate
How did News Ltd’s editors, senior correspondents and commentators become parties to such an inept, misguided and ludicrous scam to ambush the Prime Minister and Treasurer and try to force them out of office? asks Alex Mitchell.
Daily Tele Poh-faced over MasterChef cook up
The Daily Telegraph has egg, and perhaps a few other ingredients, on its face after naming the wrong winner of MasterChef Australia last night. So what happened?
Daily Tele serves up a big plate of fail
Keen to scoop all the other news outlets with the story of who won last night’s MasterChef finale, the Daily Telegraph filed their story on it half an hour before the fact — and with the wrong winner.
Daily Tele: No apology for Utegate, just Backyard Blitz
The Daily Tele is responsible for publishing an email, later showed to be fraudulent. Do they issue a mea culpa? No, they make fun of Treasury official Godwin Grech’s garden.
Utegate raises no end of questions for the media too
Whichever way you look at this whole thing, the media is up to its armpits in it, writes Scott Bridges.
Political snippets: Australians fondly remember the Labor Government of 1911
Bank crazy: the Liberals attack Labor for creating Ruddbank and Labor attack the Liberals because Malcolm Turnbull used to be a merchant banker.
Political snippets: Going to the polls with Iran
Will Nathan Rees follow the path set by the Daily Tele? And what does Crikey’s Election Indicator say about the Iranian Presidential election?
