Almost every major News Limited masthead has all given over their front pages today to what is essentially an unpaid advertisement for the police forces.
Herald Sun
Wankley Awards: Photo galleries of drunk people at the Melbourne Cup
Apparently people get drunk on the public lawns at the Melbourne Cup. Who knew? There is no news in this, just a ritualised annual tabloid photo-gallery parade of shame, vulnerability and intrusion. But try telling that to the Hun.
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?
When Fairfax moves, will Andrew Bolt be an outside broadcast?
Could management at Fairfax Media be so precious about rivals accessing its sparkling new Collins Street headquarters they are already hatching plans to bar News Limited employees from the premises?
Golly, the Hun should be black, white and red (faced) all over
A Melbourne toy shop has moved some of its products out of its display windows, and the Herald Sun was on hand to fan one of the oldest beat-ups in the book: “innocent children oppressed by PC killjoys”.
McManus out as Herald Sun ’streamlines’ its politics
Herald Sun political reporter, Gerard McManus, has left News Limited amid mutterings of discontent in the Canberra Press Gallery, with their political coverage being “streamlined”. Or, downgraded.
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.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Battle of the right-wing wingnuts
It’s a nutty showdown at East Gippsland Shire Council, Supermarkets butcher the competition, women have no right to discuss women’s rights in the Hun, and more hot tips.
Shock! Tom and Katie in predictable paparazzo bust up
Paparazzo in Australia have gone on a TomKat hunt, with bonus points for Suri snaps. Unfortunately, it’s just another instalment in the making-news-is-like-making-sausages school of trash-mag rumour mongering.
Sunday Tele’s Ros Reines rehashes one month old gossip
On Sunday, the Sunday Tele’s Ros Reines “exclusively” revealed… a month old rehash.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … ACA and The Hun
It’s an embarrassment of riches down here at the Department of Wankley Deliberation this morning.
How the tabloid press slowly degrades us all
I take it from today’s Herald Sun front cover that the paper has no issue with running stalker paparazzi shots of the victims of domestic violence, dressing the whole thing up with faux concern? muses Jonathan Green.
Elections slip out of newspapers
Australia’s newspapers have a problem: over the last three decades, there’s been a marked decline in front-page coverage of federal elections, according to research released yesterday.
The Herald Sun’s headline fun
Things are looking upbeat on the front pages of the Hun this week.
The Hun’s multimedia fail
The Herald Sun beef out a story with some clips nicked from YouTube… they probably should have actually watched them first.
Crikey Says: Crikey: setting the news tabloid agenda since 1986
Today’s News Limited tabloids made a run on yesterday’s Crikey stories.
“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.
The crying game: football clubs naively play media game
The most interesting aspect of the Wallace (non)sacking is the naively dangerous game that some football people play by aligning themselves with different media identities.
Oops Terry’s terrible Tuesday: how the media botched a Tiger (non) sacking
Richmond FC, and its coach Terry Wallace, have so far had a season to forget. But they didn’t deserve the botched misreporting of Wallace’s (non) sacking that played out this morning across Melbourne.
A short history of bossy Herald Sun headlines: Read it now!
The Herald Sun’s new editor appears to be issuing front page directives in the manner pioneered by the paper’s far-left doppelganger Green Left Weekly.
Media briefs: Melbourne’s newest suburb: Jew
The Hun’s typo of the year, Gerard Henderson needs media watching, Rupert not pleased with free WSJ iPhone app and what went wrong at Portfolio?
newspaper death watch Crikey Says: If The Boston Globe can die, what hope newspapers?
Which are the cockroach titles that will survive this nuclear media apocalypse, which will thrive after prestige titles surrender the field?
Bolt’s Swine Flu aporkolypse
Andrew Bolt was quick to imagine the worst about swine flu.
