Imitation is always the sincerest form of flattery in commercial TV and Nine CEO, David Gyngell practiced it last night with a vengeance with the launch of the struggling network’s 2008 schedule, writes Glenn Dyer.
Launch
We tipped this: pundits start to make their calls
The national punditariat are shifting off the fence and offering opinion.
Flint: Rudd’s digitally enhanced rhetoric dupes swooning media
Tired by a campaign which he says is “just so damn hard,” Kevin Rudd should be encouraged that there could be a job for him at the ABC if he doesn’t win — as an autocue reader at Media Watch, writes David Flint.
Comitatus: Females saving Howard from a three figure drubbing
The cumulative breakdowns of the last two Newspolls have been released and what is interesting between the headline result and the state based figures is the different number of seats they suggest would fall, writes Possum Comitatus.
Kilgour: Labor ads nail it, Coalition campaign shot
The ALP’s ads this week featuring the woman in the kitchen have nailed the message of the campaign, writes Adam Kilgour.
Media briefs and TV ratings
The TV viewing public has voted … The Chaser v Today Tonight: the gloves are off … Last night’s TV ratings.
Christian Kerr: Fiscal conservatism takes centre stage
All the focus at Labor’s launch in Brisbane today was on new leadership – on Rudd himself, writes Christian Kerr.
Rudd: I can feel economically responsible infrastructure coming on
The day before Labor holds its official campaign launch it is clear: this election is Kevin Rudd’s to lose, writes Christian Kerr.
Richardson: The battle for the Liberal Party begins
It’s much too late in the day for yesterday’s Coalition event to really be regarded as a campaign “launch”. But it was a launch nonetheless: the launch of the battle for the post-election soul of the Liberal Party, writes Charles Richardson.
Crikey Cabbie Panel: Was Howard’s launch a vote grabber?
With another $9.4 billion for voters, was yesterday’s Coalition campaign launch enough to shift momentum in the campaign back to Howard? We took the question to the Crikey Cabbie Panel.
Redfern 1992. Notes from a parallel universe …
In 1992, Prime Minister Paul Keating spoke in the Sydney suburb of Redfern to launch the International Year of Indigenous People.
Passengers’ bumpy ride with Jetstar
Qantas’ chief executive Geoff Dixon last week delivered news of a $1.03 billion pre-tax profit for the airline in 2006 – up 53% on the previous year. Much of it thanks to Jetstar. But the consumers are rebelling, writes Luke McKenna.
Laurie and Cheryl, Kruddy and the strippers – and poison from the dwarf
“Let it go Laurie. None of us is a paragon of virtue.” Or So Glenn Milne wrote in The Australian back in 2002 when Laurie Oakes went into print with the Cheryl and Gareth yarn. So why did he think Kevin Rudd’s brief visit to a strip club was so notable?
Pork provokes Reserve rates rise risk
And election year. Targeted spending in marginal seats. Warnings from Treasury of bad policy. Meanwhile, at a hospital in a safe Liberal seat …
The lost opportunities of NITV
Communications Minister Helen Coonan launched the new National Indigenous Television network (NITV) on Friday the 13th of July. But black media politics in Australia can be vicious and the launch has left some noses seriously out of joint, particularly those from the existing Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) network, whose content looks to have been pinched by the new initiative, writes Bob Gosford.
Wh-res-and-all Packer bio a triumph of defamation reform
The republishing of Paul Barry’s biography on Kerry Packer is a fascinating example of the chilling effect of the old defamation laws.
Talking Turkey, democracy and EU membership
Turks have just elected an Islamist government. Yet Turkey’s Islamists combine: free market economics, recognition of Israel, pro-Western foreign policy and more zeal to join the EU than any of its more allegedly secular predecessors. Irfan Yusuf investigates.
Chris Mitchell: That greenie Rupert won’t change our coverage
A memo to all staff from Chris Mitchell, editor-in-chief of The Australian, landed in our inbox yesterday. We think he doth protest too much …
