It’s not the stories about Liberals being caught rorting the system that have kept John Howard’s election campaign off the rails this week. The damage was done by preventing the story that Mr Howard wanted aired getting the run it otherwise would have.
Sydney telegraph
Reality check: Publicising the mistakes
The Crikey Reality Check of what stories people are actually reading on internet news sites has this week reached a record level and will go higher before the week ends, writes Richard Farmer.
Reality check: Ready for the real start
The warm up is nearly over. With the Melbourne Cup out of the way perhaps public interest in the election race will begin.
Reality check: The election still isn’t rating
What the Coalition campaign team needs is a few more of these winning days when people really are interested in the election. Our daily survey of what people are reading on the news websites suggests that time has not yet come.
Tax v. Marcia Hines: a good day for a reality check
The chasm between what newspaper editors select as news and what their readers actually read could not be more marked than what is shown this morning by comparing front pages and the list of most read stories on the websites of the same papers.
