This week, Planet Janet is angry at the new Margaret Thatcher’s film The Iron Lady in which Meryl Streep plays the Tory supremo in her prime. Planet thinks it’s a lefty trick.
Janet Albrechtsen
Media briefs: News.com.au’s Struggle St struggles …. Leveson latest … reporting armageddon …
News.com.au’s struggle street struggles … gay marriage and knowing your history …Front Page of the Day …Leveson inquiry: subterfuge can be in public interest, says Guardian reporter …
Hey Janet, on female sex you’ve got the rough end of the stick
Janet Albrechtsen’s opinion piece in yesterday’s Australian was shocking — you would never would have pegged her as a Sex and the City fan. Or suggesting all female sexual exploration is positive.
The sisterhood? Jesus. How about common decency?
The growing media obsession with both Julia Gillard’s physical appearance and her marital status could be dismissed as indicative of both the essential inanity of the press and its casual sexism. But it’s more than that.
Holmes: It’s not just your ABC, it’s everyone’s
The Oz has been unfairly laying into the ABC for its leadership spill coverage last Thursday night. The ABC couldn’t just cut some of its most popular programs for a handful of political junkies, writes Jonathan Holmes.
Guy Rundle: 
Planet Janet’s new wobble: blaming the victimology
Today’s column by Janet Albrechtsen is a long screed against victimhood, says Guy Rundle. Been raped? Sexually abused as a child? Forget professional advice based on real cases: just take your queue from Stieg Larsson.
Boards: SBS keen on youth, ABC on the bottom line
Yesterday was the closing date for nominations for vacancies on the ABC and SBS boards, and although the “arm’s length” appointment process is independent, the parameters are still within the influence of the incumbents.
The Conservative Commentariat Knitting Circle
Featuring the Cane Toads for a Free Tibet Action Committee
ABC board no longer in the orbit of Planet Janet
Right-wing commentator Janet Albrechtsen, a controversial appointee by the Howard government, will not be reappointed to the ABC Board when her term expires in February.
Noel Pearson is ‘our’ Obama? Albrechtsen’s swatch politics
Janet Albrechtsen dubbed Indigenous leader Noel Pearson as Australia’s answer to Barack Obama. Is that because they’re both, um, black? asks Guy Rundle.
Crikey Says: The Trioli Awards
Crikey honours ABC2 host Virginia Trioli’s finger-twirling candour with a new award for public waffle.
Crikey Says: Dear diary: by Kevin Rudd
So what exactly does PM Kevin Rudd think of Brendan Nelson quitting and forcing a byelection? Luckily, Crikey has access to Rudd’s diary, thanks to The Oz…
Planet Albrechtsen takes a swipe at Rudd and religion
Planet Janet Albrechtsen has a fairly lacklustre attack on the Ruddster and religion in today’s Oz.
Iranian rebellion inspired by the West? Not so much.
They’re risking their lives. We’re debating utes. You’d think that, in local discussions of Iran, a certain humility would prevail. But not so for Janet Albrechtsen, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Guy Rundle: None the Weisser on Planet Albrechtsen
Janet Albrechtsen takes a swipe at Guy Rundle. Rundle hits back.
Guy Rundle: Planet Janet re-orbits and the last word on The Monthly
Guy rundle takes aim at Janet Albrechtsen, The Monthly and Melanie Phillips.
Media briefs: Albrechtsen tells the left to lighten up
Guy Rundle responds to Janet Albrechtsen’s comments about lefties; WSJ maps newspapers’ deaths and Ten stops doing the Bartman.
ABC/SBS board appointments: step up from Howard
It’s been a long wait, but the first fruits of the Government’s new ABC Board appointments process have emerged, writes Bernard Keane.
Media briefs: HuffPo journalism fund… Molly, er, jolly…
All the news on the news makers. Including the story that Twitter is O.V.A.
Why Albrechtsen is wrong on executive pay
For a former commercial lawyer, Albrechtsen shows a surprising lack of business awareness, writes Adam Schwab.
Albrechtsen defends the indefensible: executive salaries
Who would dare to defend multimillion dollar executive remuneration? Why, Janet Albrechtsen, of course, writes Jeff Sparrow.
The Melbourne Cup field of the next Bradfield preselection
Janet Albrechtsen is right about one thing: Brendan Nelson wasn’t part of the Liberal Party establishment, writes Irfan Yusuf.
New Matilda / Monday, 2 November 2009
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.