For the times when saying sorry just isn’t enough
Kyle Sandilands 
Crikey Says: Hey Hey it’s the internet
With Hey Hey’s blackface scandal, it’s not so much that community standards have changed in 20 years, it’s that thanks to technology it’s easier for the audience to make its feelings and displeasure heard.
Well, how would you like to be Sandilands’ boss?
The toughest media job in the world is husbanding 2DayFm and Austero through to the end of the two current ACMA inquiries into talkback radio, one involving Kyle and Jacki O.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: King Kyle out-ranks Rudd
Kyle Sandilands rated 50% more mentions than the PM on the people’s medium this week, further confirming commercial TV’s place as a politics-free zone.
Kyle and Jackie Oh no: ratings plummet
In the wake of the Kyle Sandilands concentration camp debacle, Crikey asked whether it was the tipping point for the Kyle and Jackie O show. Would the tactics that brought in listeners also make the tune out? The answer seems to be yes.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Kyle and the meeja
Crikey readers continue to weigh in on Steve Fielding’s spelling issues and whether Godwin’s Law will bring down vile Kyle Sandilands.
Could 2GB poach Sandilands to be the new Stan Zemanek?
In all the frothing and hissing about Kyle Sandilands, did anyone notice that it’s a non-ratings fortnight for Sydney radio?
Crikey Says: Can’t we just turn them off?
As we have seen again this week in the troubled world of professional attention seeker Kyle Sandilands, media regulation in this country packs all the punch of a wilted shard of rocket.
Will Godwin’s Law finally bring down Kyle Sandilands?
Sorry Kyle, it’s Godwin’s Law. The minute you invoke the Nazis, your salad days as a shock jock are over.
Sandilands and scandal: is this the tipping point?
Kyle Sandilands has hit the airwaves — and headlines — again with another attention-grabbing stunt. Will the provocative tactics that have made his career also break it?
Riled by Kyle: fatties fight back
So Kyle Sandilands is overweight people and concentration camps. And Susie O’Brien is bagging larger models as bad role models. Folks, we’ve heard it all before, says fatty Bri King.
Andrew Bolt: what I’ve learned in 50 years
Warning: this isn’t your typical Bolt diatribe. Andrew Bolt reflects on 50 years of life, conceding that there are many things he knows nothing about and that love and family mark as deeper than we’d like to admit.
The Kyle and Jackie O Code of Contrition
In commercial radio, if you grossly offend the nation’s sensibilities, you simply suspend yourself for two weeks and move on, writes Andrew Dodd.
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.
Cash for cockheads: the empty economics of commercial radio
Commercial radio is based on the economics of attention, says Mel Campbell: a sick culture where scandal always equals success an ethics are completely ephemeral.
Invasion of privacy is not okay — even if it’s Kyle Sandilands’
Kyle Sandilands may have been one of the most repulsively cruel broadcasters in recent memory, but that doesn’t justify News Ltd tracking down and publishing the private financial arrangements between him and his banks, says Jeremy Sear
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.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Costello keeps himself in the news
Peter Costello and Anna Bligh are among the most talked about politicians this week, with Anna Bligh up to third spot, thanks to her anti-corruption reforms this week.
Putting a price on the Sandilands saga
American Express and Optus have joined Qantas and Channel Ten in pulling advertising dollars from the Austereo network in the wake of the Kyle and Jackie O lie-detector saga, while documents reveal Sandilands’ lavish lifestyle has left him $2.2 million in debt — and now unemployed.
Godwin Grech at the Jim Hacker Memorial Hospital
The true truth about the email, the lie detector and Mrs Slocum’s pussy!
Are we witnessing the death of the shock jock?
Crikey / Tuesday, 27 October 2009 / 3
The position of the shock jock on our airwaves is becoming increasingly precarious, writes Luke Williams. Is radio heading towards a younger, user-generated and more democratic style of broadcast?