In today’s Media Briefs: Front Page of the Day … Coulson favoured chancellor in coverage of scandal during time as editor … 3AW and 2GB surge in radio ratings … The Week appoints Alison Wright as new editor and more …
Sunday mail
Crikey Says: Beware the supermarket shopping asylum seekers
Brisbane’s Sunday Mail dispatched its snapper to a shopping centre to pap its front-page target. No, not a celebrity, just a mother and her two daughters. Or, “suspected immigration detainees” as the paper captioned them.
They’re here! The racist ham eating muslins have arrived!
Why does Kevin Rudd hate homebrand Hawaiian Pizza?
The dodgy reporting fuelling Islamic tension
False claims made in the media about the Dr Haneef case were never corrected and have fuelled racial tension as his legal case continues.
Reader scores a hone run for mistake in The Sunday Male
An email sent to the editor of The Sunday Mail in Brisbane takes aim at branch of the Fourth Estate…
Political snippets: Zen and the art of transdisciplinary studies
Richard Farmer meditates on some suspect climate change opinion polls in the SMH, some even more suspect ones in the Sunday Mail, the good news for Barnaby Joyce, and how St Kilda screwed over punters.
The Sunday Mail’s innovative marketing strategy: telling fibs
Crikey received a scintillating leaked email purportedly written by the Chief of Staff of Advertiser Newspapers. Scintillating, that is, if you find the inner machinations of the Adelaide Advertiser interesting. And providing you bought the veracity of the email in the first place. We didn’t, writes Sophie Black.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Drink less but worry more … As the weekend went on the alarm about the booze continued … Forget the sham - Follow the Congressional practice … A serious attempt at internet news … Wine companies would be fined but will juicy ones? … A Zoroastrian investment …
The coal king’s gift that undermined Wayne Bennett
Wayne Bennett’s departure from the Broncos was decided last year when the Courier Mail exposed his secret deal with coal magnate Ken Talbot, writes Jeff Wall.
Election 04: The newpapers’ choice last time round
Ahead of Election ‘04, no mainstream newspaper endorsed the ALP. Or more precisely, no editorial recommended Mark Latham for Prime Minister. With the stumbling block of Latham removed, and the less volatile Rudd in his place, last Sunday’s papers revealed a different mood.
