Mark Latham has re-engaged in his slanging match with News Limited after what he calls “premeditated” attack by The Sunday Telegraph that framed him as an elderly women hater.
Sunday Telegraph
Is this newspaper of the year worthy?
The Sunday Telegraph just nabbed the title of New Limited’s Newspaper of the Year. So why was it full of diet battles and weight loss tales yesterday? asks Tim Burrowes.
Crikey Says: Yipe!
Robert Crumb certainly has a way with words.
Editors would know if journos were hacking phones: News Ltd editor
New allegations have emerged on just how insidious phone tapping was at the News of the World, as one of News Limited’s senior Australian lieutenants suggests editors should have known the practice was going on.
NSW Labor election promises: big war chest, no hope
According to The Sunday Telegraph NSW Premier Kristina Kenneally has a war chest of $1.4 billion available to fund election promises. However the bald truth is that there will not be a Labor government after the March election to spend anything, writes Richard Farmer.
Media briefs: Doggone, Fairfax suits up … Howes’ mixed message
Fairfax Media’s ailing band of Melbourne suburban mastheads has a new mascot — Wilbur Weekly — a hulking promotional dog that attends community events to spruik the stable’s offerings and hand out stickers to children. Plus, other media news tid bits.
Sunday editorials: who the papers are backing (and who cares?)
With yesterday the final Sunday before polling day, the Sunday papers gave their traditional editorials declaring which leader they are supporting come Saturday, with the majority supporting a continued Gillard government.
Anniversary journalism (literally): 70 years of The Sunday Telegraph
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.
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.
