The Sunday Telegraph celebrated its 70th birthday over the weekend with this walk down memory lane, featuring heart-warming anecdotes like Sir Frank Packer’s constant refrain: “You’re all useless leeches. You’re a pack of bloodsuckers. Get out. You’re all sacked.” Good times.
Sunday Telegraph
Keating on the stairs: beating or beat up?
Insiders say a Sunday Telegraph alleging Paul Keating’s daughter kicked and threatened to kill one of its photographers was at best a beat-up, and at-worst a total fabrication.
A lesson in contrasts: how one riot was reported
Skin colour makes a huge difference on the language used, when it comes to how violent street riots are reported in the media. Better to be a London Nazi skinhead than a Sydney Lebanese Muslim.
Crikey Says: Can’t we just turn them off?
As we have seen again this week in the troubled world of professional attention seeker Kyle Sandilands, media regulation in this country packs all the punch of a wilted shard of rocket.
Sunday Tele’s Ros Reines rehashes one month old gossip
On Sunday, the Sunday Tele’s Ros Reines “exclusively” revealed… a month old rehash.
Don Burke vs. Donna Hay: a storm in a vegie pot
It’s parsnips at 20 paces, with a war of words and whisks cooking between Don Burke and Donna Hay over that highly contentious issue of public interest: parsnips.
Weet-Bix pull Sunday Tele ads
News Ltd says it was “punished” by Socceroo sponsor Sanitarium pulling its Weet-Bix ads after the Sunday Telegraph reported on a night club stoush involving player Tim Cahill.
Tips and rumours: More tales from Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull does some unsolicited meeting and greeting at a Perth shopping centre, plus gossip from the Sunday Tele.
Tele’s Hanson apology laughable
Considering the extent of the defamation against Pauline Hanson by the Sunday Telegraph, the apology published by the Sydney tabloid on the weekend seems almost laughable.
News Corp’s “newspaper revolution” marketing ploy
The News Ltd Sunday tabloids were tarting a “newspaper revolution” last weekend that had a far more crass motive: cross-promoting a movie from the Fox film studios.
Tele prints more dubious celebrity nudes
The Daily Telegraph has done another Pauline and published more dubious nude photographs of American starlet Rihanna on their website.
Photoshopped! What’s that on Prince Fred’s neck?
Could it be a blueberry Danish?
The Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould fallout: we don’t care
but the public saga of the fallout between Ricky Stuart and Gus Gould is surely one of the most boring things to grace NRL in living memory, writes Steve Kaless.
Fawcett to sue Tele over those ‘Hanson’ pics
It seems the notorious Pauline Hanson fake nude photos saga is headed for a delicious postscript.
Tips and rumours: Is Myer set to lose another major brand to DJs?
A tipster claims another big household name is set to ditch Myer, while another explains the comings and goings of “female interest” writers in major newspapers.
Fairfax exodus but what about Sunday Telly?
News Ltd scribblers are not giving any like the same coverage to the personnel meltdown which is happening under their very noses at The Sunday Telegraph, writes Alex Mitchell.
