TV Tonight has a leaked internal memo from Channel Nine’s Director of News and Current Affairs, Mark Calvert, bragging: “we absolutely owned a massive news event we didn’t, officially, own!”
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The Media Monitors' Top 20: Budget week is Swan’s time to shine
A good week for Wayne, with the ugly Treasurling growing into a serious, fiscally responsible powerswan — well that’s definitely the spin from the “politics free zone” in the Treasurer’s office.
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Why Jessica Watson has not sailed around the world
Sixteen-year-old sailor Jessica Watson has not circumnavigated the globe to the satisfaction of the “Round the World” record requirements, claims Sail World. Jesse Martin’s record will remain intact.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Libs give out Oz party bags
The Australian gets pride of place in the Liberal Party show bags, Harry Connick Jr does blackface too, Jessica Watson was sailing in murky waters, more SA MP biffo, the LNP’s preselection for Wright starts to sweat, and more tips-offs from readers.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s poem of the week
A nautical but nice poem by Crikey laureate Guy Rundle.
Crikey Clarifier: How did the 16-year-old sailor collide with a ship?
How did 16-year-old Jessica Watson manage to crash into a container ship? Master Mariner Richard Morris says lay off Jessica, it was actually the ship’s fault.
