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Miranda Devine
Megaphones watch: Alan Jones speaks out on gay rights and more
The Power Index’s Matthew Knott presents what Australia’s most powerful Megaphones (including Alan Jones, Miranda Devine and Piers Akerman) have been up to over the silly season.
Sandalgate: and the most gratuitous media reference is …
Today Crikey bestows an old pair of sandals as an award for the most gratuitous media reference to personal appearance.
Miranda Devine: the columnist those on the left love to hate
The Devine Miss M is a provocateur par excellence. She stirs emotions, sets tongues wagging and pisses off people. Even Mark Latham – the man she bagged mercilessly as Labor leader – rates her as a must-read columnist, writes Matthew Knott.
Media briefs: Devine backs wrong horse … more Murdoch questions …
Miranda Devine backs the wrong horse … Murdochs back in the dock over phone hacking … Front Page of the Day … the Department of Corrections and more …
Power Shots: Political Fixers #10 David Feeney … Devine v Phelps …
Cheerful, chubby and fresh-faced, like a well-scrubbed piglet, Paul Barry profiles David Feeney, who comes in at #10 on our list of political fixers. Also try some of our other Power Shots from the rest of the Power Index team.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: the beat-up goes on as Quadrant attacks Behrendt
Keith Windschuttle’s long inquiry into Larissa Behrendt’s family’s background is ultimately irrelevant to the positions she occupies.
Rundle: worse than horse love
There is only one thing worse than be taken as an enemy of News Limited, St Oscar might have written, and that is to be taken pup as their friend.
That one seat represents more than 1.4 million Australians
The Green extremists are holding the majority hostage, even though they only have one seat, claims the right wing commentariat. But that one seat and voice in parlimanent represents the 11.76% of Australians who voted for them, writes Jeremy Sear.
Blogging by tweet
Maintaining a regularly updated blog is a tough grind, but Fairfax journo Miranda Devine was being a little lazy when she copied and pasted a tweet and used it as a blog post, writes Dave Gaukroger.
The strange logic orbiting Mirandaverse
The Daily Telegraph columnist Miranda Divine’s op-ed about drug regulation reveals a twisted logic that would result in more overdoses ending in deaths, more junkies shooting up and more needles on the streets, writes Dave Gaukroger.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… Miranda Devine, sticking up for the blokes
They promised she’d be “feisty”. Daily Telegraph editor Garry Linnell said she “attracts debate, and makes you feel something”. The “hardest-hitting columnist” in NSW, Miranda Devine is back on the national stage with a bang.
Devine’s got the Greens’ number
Where to begin with Miranda Devine’s hate-mongering column at her new News Ltd digs, “What it really means to be Green”? To start with, it’s not a good sign when your opening salvo is nothing more than a smear by association, says Jeremey Sear.
You say “Miranda Devine”, Google says “gerbil”
So much joy can be found with Google autocomplete and Mumbrella provides wonderful Australian examples. What topics are automatically associated with NSW Premier Kristina Keneally? Try “hair”, “hot” and “nobody’s puppet”.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Hospitals, beds, the disabled and how to capture the swinging voter
Crikey readers have their say on myriad election issues. And how to correctly cook marshmallows.
#rogeringgerbils: Did Devine just pull a Deveny?
The SMH’s Miranda Devine has got the Twittersphere in a tizz after she accused a gay fellow tweep of “rogering [sic] gerbils”. So will Fairfax fire her, too? asks Dave Gaukroger.
Devine: The worm is a moron
All the “wormologists” in the health debate are snivelling idiots with low IQs, says Miranda Devine. Why? Because they loved Kevin Rudd. Even though his hospital system didn’t operate on Miranda’s sliced thumb.
Crikey Says: Growing battlefield momentum inside the Sceptics Army
Of the two climate change wars currently being waged across the globe — the war against climate change and the war about climate change — it’s War 2 that’s now occupying the most territory.
The Conservative Commentariat Knitting Circle
Featuring the Cane Toads for a Free Tibet Action Committee
Beecher: the choreograph of the commentariat
Synchronised indignation has been a trademark feature of the Australian media commentariat for years, writes Eric Beecher: the past week’s episode started with a stirring landmark speech about climate change by the Prime Minister at the Lowy Institute.
Fred Nile turns people smuggler
Christian Democrat Fred Nile is getting into the people smuggling business, with plans to smuggle 2000 Christian asylum seekers by boat into Australia from Indonesia.
Guy Rundle: Devine diagnoses the “narcissism epidemic”: blame parents
In the SMH, Miranda Devine weighs in on the “narcissism epidemic” as documented by, surprisingly, social psychologists. Her diagnosis? Blame the parents.
New Matilda / Monday, 2 November 2009
Newspaper editors’ new schtick appears to be giving column inches to commentators whose words are controversial, but intellectually barren, says Jason Wilson. It may pull in more readers, but ultimately, it damages the masthead.