Fairfax Media is bracing for a wave of industrial action down the eastern seaboard, with a pay-parity dispute threatening to pull mastheads from letterboxes and engulf The Age and the Australian Financial Review.
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Media briefs: The Age’s uni poison … SMH loves travel
Monday is normally a news graveyard but surely nothing can top the un-bylined drivel (David Rood’s name was later attached to the online version) trotted out in this morning’s Age. Plus, the advertisers want compo for Games and other media news.
Media briefs: SMH our best paper (but Fairfax revenue bleeds) … 3D no-go …
Fairfax scoops paper awards. Plus, a disgruntled subbie’s joke at The Age, Look, we trashed our masthead for you Gaz! and other media news of the day.
Can you give your Good Food Guide hats back?
The head chef and owner of Sydney restaurant Pier wants to give back his three-hat Good Food Guide rating. Too bad, says Terry Durack: I decide who does and doesn’t have a hat. He’ll have to change his restaurant.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: System waste at Superpartners
Has Australia’s largest superannuation administrator accidentally turned its pockets inside out for a prize lemon? Which architect of the Your Rights @ Work campaign is presiding over a workplace where employees are being bullied? Plus more hot tips from Crikey readers.
#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.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Sabotage at the SMH
It appears the Sydney Morning Herald website has been the focus of some online sabotage, with various parts of the site modified during the week. Crikey’s got the screen shots.
Media briefs: Abbott’s mate on Q&A … are Age readers big prudes?
Crikey subjects questioners on ABC1’s Monday night gabfest Q&A to a rigorous Googling, the first iPad reviews are in, and are Age readers more conservative than SMH readers? Plus other snippets from the mediasphere.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The jewel in Fairfax’s crown is due for a polish
Rumours of a major restructure at the SMH, the Advertiser predicts its own death, the True Type revealed at Rio Tinto and more hot tips.
Spinning the Media: The line between advertorial and content just got blurrier
While advertorials put together at the request of the advertising department have run for many years at the Sydney Morning Herald, the distinction that they be clearly marked as an ‘advertising feature’ seems to have softened, reports Emma Kemp.
Spinning the Media: Five decades’ experience on the changing role of PR
Ben Sandilands looks the changes in media-PR relationship through the eyes of a reporter who spent 49 years on shipping, aviation and other rounds: the PR person is increasingly the reporter.
What a difference disclosure makes
With all the noise in the My Schools debate, it’s crucial that we are properly informed about the background of participants. Like, John Mardsen in SMH. Shouldn’t it be mentioned that he is also a school principal? asks Dave Gaukroger.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Brumby knifes Myki heads
The purge of those tainted by Victoria’s public transport and Myki debacle continues. Plus, a new low for TV reviewers in the SMH? How can you review a show you haven’t seen?
Fairfax goes paywall. Well, kinda
Some stories on Fairfax news sites have been showing only a few paragraphs of the article before instructing readers to buy a hard copy of the paper to read the rest. Is this a paywall strategy in the making?
The fallacy of My School
The government’s My School website confirms that we have gross inequalities in our education system — but it tells us very little about which schools are working hard to overcome them, says Eva Cox.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: New changes to the criminal justice world
So apparently there is a new charge sheet to be used for all people being charged by the Victorian Police. Too bad no one remembered to tell anyone about it.
Daily Tele takes NSW back to William IV
The tabloid frenzy in New South Wales over constitutional changes is dangerous and ill-informed. While we may well need a mechanism to call an early election against the government’s wishes, it shouldn’t be driven by the likes of the Daily Tele.
Crikey Says: The NSW papers prepare their terrorist manifestos
Today, as they grasp for relevance in their dotage, the SMH and the Tele are running campaigns to demolish constitutional democracy in NSW that are absurd and positively embarrassing.
Sheehan: Get ‘em in and spit ‘em out: the media churn of politics
Leadership speculation! Spill! New leader! Opinion Polls! Scandal! Rather than focusing on policies, Australian politics is an endless horse race with the media as jockey and lots of blood being spilt, writes Paul Sheehan.
Total recall in NSW
The SMH has started a petition to demand an early election in NSW. Err, it’s not quite that simple, explains William Bowe.
SMH launch a petition to boot the NSW ALP out
The NSW government is stuffed, says the Sydney Morning Herald, and we need to change our constitution and have an early election to get this farce of a government out of office.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: McLucas returns?
Is Jan McLucas planning a comeback? Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital loses some big bucks, Fred Nile polls the electorate and more tips from Crikey readers.
Crikey Says: Fairfax MIA on book imports
While The Australian afforded the issue of book reform appropriate and extensive coverage this morning, the Fairfax broadsheets were missing in action. It’s an absence Australian public life can ill-afford.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Cardinal Pell’s climate sceptic pals
Cardinal George Pell makes friends with climate sceptics, the SMH’s new A-group, a conspiracy theory about the Bondi caveman, and is Christopher Pyne eying the leadership?
