For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
Ninemsn
Sydney nightclubbers give voxpop gold
Ninemsn canvases insightful eyewitness reports from violence in Sydnety’s King’s Cross.
Media briefs: Evening Standard relaunches, commentators unimpressed
Commentators unimpressed are unimpressed with the relaunch of the London Evening Standard relaunch, and an American journo freed from Iranian prison while Australian journalists are held captive in budget lockdown.
And the Wankley goes to… the Herald Sun and NineMSN
Slow news day? Why not concoct a dangerous cult conspiracy? Neil Walker investigates.
TV ratings winners (ABC) and losers (Nine)
The Nine Network’s last remaining claims to be “the one Australia turns to” were killed off on Saturday night when the network comprehensively lost the election night coverage battle with the ABC and Seven, writes Glenn Dyer.
Ninemsn calls it – seat by seat for Rudd
Labor leader Kevin Rudd will be elected next prime minister with a 6.8 per cent national swing against the Howard Government, a Ninemsn poll predicts.
ALP launch: First reactions from the media
What the papers are saying straight off the bat…
APEC losers: PC Dum and PC Dummer
Commissioner Scipione gives the impression of a humourless, somewhat dangerous and not-very-bright control freak as he defends police heavy-handedness by declaring: “That’s the way we do business in NSW now.”
Pauline Hanson and the new $2 Jews
Malcolm Fraser claimed late last year that the next federal election would be about Muslims. And if Pauline Hanson has her way, the Queensland Senate ballot will certainly place Muslims in the box seat. Not bad for a group who make up around 0.175% of the Sunshine State’s population.
Media briefs and TV ratings
There won’t be any twist in the C7 case …
Is CVC James Packer’s Alan Bond?
Has CVC bought a lemon with the PBL Media assets it has so far paid more than $1.7 billion for?
Tips and rumours
MyHome.com.au is being shopped around for interested buyers - rumours of buyers in the mortgage space taking an interest. Bell Potter is closely involved in sale and potentially conflicted due to equity stake in MyHome. Is this a record for NineMSN or an indication that the new owners will not cop losing businesses for any […]
