Pepsi fights back in the soft drink marketing wars. Plus, an official Telstra reply alongside further Telstra complaints about bad service.
Sydney Morning Herald
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Pepsi joins the soft drink wars
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.
Crikey Says: SMH: from profit-plunge to awards
What does it take to be Australia’s newspaper of the year?
My restaurant rules: Crikey’s dining meta list
With all the big food and restaurant guides coming out over the past few weeks, Richard Farmer has served up the results as one big meta list for your delectation. Bon appetit.
SMH’s Good Food Guide launch goes stale
The plunging profits of the Sydney Morning Herald kept its key executives away from the fading broadsheet’s biggest night — the launch of the SMH Good Food Guide at Carriageworks in Sydney’s Redfern last night, writes a concerned Sydney eater.
The media evolution of NSW politics
Following on from Crikey’s editorial on the changing identity of Michael McGurk by the SMH, North Coast Voices tracks the media progression of alleged corruption within NSW government ranks.
Fairfax print earnings slump 66%
“Fairfax Media well positioned for recovery in advertising markets”, said the headline on the company’s press release today — but it was all about spin, not discussion and explanation for what was a very, very bad six months.
Tips and rumours: Truth: the four, er, five-letter word
Is Tom Cruise >em>actually cruising off the Australian Coast? NT parliament doesn’t know how many letters in ‘truth’ and are Ticketek staff rorting the system?
Fairfax’s strategic future: Crikey readers weigh in
We asked, and a handful of you cared enough to answer. Here are some Crikey reader’s thoughts on the strategic direction of Fairfax.
Circulations wrap: calm down Rupert, things aren’t that bad here
While Fairfax and News Ltd papers are suffering nasty falls in ad revenues, recent figures of Australian newspapers show small, but not fatal falls in some cases and small rises in others.
Goodbye free news
The free content gravy train has come to an end in Australia, says Gary Sauer-Thompson, with News Ltd and now Fairfax moving to charge for access to their websites. But could this be a boon for bloggers and spawn the creation of more local news sites?
Fairfax to charge for online news
Hot on the heels of Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that all News Corp news sites will soon be charging for online content, Fairfax Media boss Brian McCarthy has announced plans to erect a paywall on both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites.
Tips and rumours: Getting cross about canned crosswords
The SMH cancel their online crossword, was the Kyle and Jackie O lie detector segment pre-recorded? The Member for Leichhardt struggles for friends; and more from our team of tipsters.
Rudd’s essay: an economist’s take
The Prime Minister’s latest published essay prompted this detailed response from economist Steve Keen.
The Eels and Sharks swim in murky waters
Good old fashioned investigation into the Parramatta Eels and Cronulla Sharks reveals money laundering.
Fairfax finally merges its Canberra bureaux
Few things have been more contentious between the SMH and The Age than the very mention of amalgamating the papers’ federal Parliamentary bureaus. Now, it’s happened.
The latest in quality journalism from the SMH
The SMH’s breathless review of the latest Sacha Baron Cohen movie is actually a review of a review done by The Sun in the UK — essentially a rehashed collection of quotations from the original.
SMH vs. Daily Tele: who is right?
The SMH and Daily Tele both ran the same story today — but you wouldn’t know it.
Food fight! Durack and Dupleix head to Fairfax
The news that Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix are joining Fairfax has been met with the sort of po-faced looks which only uptight foodies can manage — as if they’ve eaten a dog turd instead of a truffle.
Tips and rumours: The SMH drops out of London
Regarding Monday’s commentary on The Sydney Morning Herald’s rapidly dwindling world coverage, it’s worth noting the reduced SMH presence in London in the past few weeks, says one Crikey tipster.
“Rip and read” world coverage at the SMH
The Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘“world coverage” by its own reporters continues to shrink, writes a Crikey reader.
Tips and rumours: In which Malcolm Turnbull eats a, gasp, hot dog
A bounty of tips today from Turnbull, his vociferous staffer and Marinergate to Andrew Jaspan.
Bangaroo bust-up bad news for Rees
Buried in a newspaper story on the weekend was a disclosure that is bad news for the struggling NSW Government.
Guy Rundle: Devine diagnoses the “narcissism epidemic”: blame parents
Crikey / Guy Rundle / Thursday, 3 September 2009
In the SMH, Miranda Devine weighs in on the “narcissism epidemic” as documented by, surprisingly, social psychologists. Her diagnosis? Blame the parents.