Who mops up when news sources leak?It’s been a veritable downpour of leaks in the press lately — McCrystal, NASA, Clinton and more — but are journos too eager to catch a scoop without questioning (or divulging) who is offering it and why?
Leaks 
EXPOSED: Mark Penn uses his WSJ column to pimp for clients
A leaked email exchange exposes PR firm Burson-Marsteller trying to drum up business from camping equipment brands and retailers off the back of a column written by the company’s CEO Mark Penn about the new “trend” of “glamping” (that’s err, “glamorous camping”) in the WSJ.
Ink blot secrets leaked online
Want to know the “right” answers to the Rorschach test — the ink blots — so you won’t appear crazy? They’ve been published on Wikipedia, and psychologists are not happy about it.
Companies struggle to plug online leaks
More and more workers are leaking embarrassing and confidential information from their workplace (or former workplace) online, fueled by a rise in both unemployment and the popularity of social networking. This just in: The Crikey office is out of biscuits.
The Nixon Tapes revealed: Vietnam, abortion and more
It’s the latest installment of Nixonalia — 150 hours of secretly recorded tapes shedding light on the period of January to February 1973.
Budget 09 is all about “middle class welfare”
The leaks we’ve seen so far represent the message the framers of the Budget would like to send, writes John Quiggin. And the key phrase is “middle class welfare”.
Whoops, how did that budget leak get there?
Next time the Government cops a bad break, or you think the press is being unfair to it, keep in mind just how tightly-controlled it has been in the last week.
Budget 09 leaks: a Crikey list
This year, with a GFC-affected Budget, leaks are being used to help people — especially higher income earners — adjust to the idea that it won’t just be bonuses and handouts.
Rudd, Bush, Sarkozy, Howard… where did the love go?
Had enough of G20-speakerphone-dinner-that-wasn’t-a-dinner-Dubya’s-an-idiot-no-Rudd’s-an-idiot gate yet? At Crikey we’re just getting warmed up, writes Bernard Keane.
Mungo: Get off the pot Chris Mitchell
If the situation is even half as serious as Mitchell claims, then he owes it to the Australian public to tell them the truth. Unfortunately this may get in the way of a good beat up, but that’s journalism, writes Mungo MacCallum.
G20 gaffe: Australian public say “whatever”
People, it seems, don’t want to know that their Prime Minister has an ego so large it unbalances his judgement. Or perhaps they know and don’t care, writes Bernard Keane.
Bob Brown, G20, the Oz and Australia’s right to know
Why is Brown protecting the PM? Why is the national newspaper not applying to itself what it rightly lectures politicians about — the right of the public to know? asks David Flint.
Wheatley dudded by bureaucratic leaks and zealots
While Gaynor Wheatley sits at home hoping that her husband Glenn will return soon from jail, the entertainment guru’s legal team is putting together a case they believe will have him back to the matrimonial home in three months’ time, writes Chris Seage.
Another terror case, another leak. A pattern emerges
Oh no, not again. A News Limited newspaper – this time The Australian - is the recipient of a juicy leak in a terrorism case. This time it’s an extract from a 142 page transcript of an AFP interview with Mohammed Haneef.
It’s not just what the leaders say, it’s where they say it
Crikey / Thursday, 4 October 2007
Yesterday saw an announcement from John Howard about aid to autistic kids. It was quickly matched by Kevin Rudd. Ho hum, you might say. But where the leaders are actually making the announcements is also very important, writes Mark Bahnisch.