There’s nothing like a good state-of-origin war between The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph. But when a TV star calls for a fellow employee to withholding bedroom favours from his boss, you know a Wankley is just around the corner.
Karl Stefanovic
Mildura council bombshell: what will Karl Stefanovic say this time?
Gold Logie winner Karl Stefanovic copped plenty of flak when he declared that his wife, Cassandra Thorburn, has the “best arse I have ever seen”. Karl doesn’t mind talking frankly about the Thorburn family…
The Media Monitors' Top 20: No Gold Logie for Gillard … but there was an Osama…
Julia Gillard’s attendance at the Royal Wedding and comments about the death of Osama bin Laden kept her well ahead this week.
Karl’s ‘tacky’ campaign takes shine off Gold Logie win
Peter Meakin describes Karl Stefanovic as a “mate”. But the rival news boss reckons his shameless and ultimately victorious campaign for a Gold Logie was “tacky”.
Media briefs: Roddick slams Channel Seven … beautiful one day …
Tennis star Andy Roddick delivered a backhand to Channel Seven’s coverage of the Australian Open, after it chose to broadcast the Alicia Molik vs. Nadia Petrova match after it had already finished. Plus other media news of the day.
Media briefs: Waleed Aly becomes SBS’s Conan … ‘Robot’ Stefanovic
Australian television has long proved to be a wasteland for late night chat shows but that doesn’t seem to faze SBS, who are set to launch a new six-part late night talk show in the new year fronted by Melbourne academic Waleed Aly. Also Karl the ‘robot’ Stefanovic and the trolls are breeding online.
Wankley Awards: The Most Wankiest of Wankleys for 2009
From a tough field of nominees, this year’s Wankiest of all Wankleys goes to Richard Wilkins and his Goldblum gaff, writes Elly Keating, but Sam the Koala, Daryl Somers and Kyle Sandilands all deserve honourable mentions.
Media briefs: Unemployed journo takes up personal PR
Eurovision diva’s violence message, Fox promises to be “accurate”, and an unemployed journo takes up personal PR.
Karl Stefanovic: “I didn’t FEEL drunk…”
Karl Stefanovic’s post-Logies hosting disaster, plus his apology a few days later.
The Crikey F-ckability Index
We rate TV people on the Westacott scale.
