There’s nothing like a good state-of-origin war between The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph. But when a TV star calls for a fellow employee to withholding bedroom favours from his boss, you know a Wankley is just around the corner.
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Wankley Awards: A right royal fawning over Big Willie and Babykins
Crikey sends a very special 21-gun-salute to Australia’s newspapers in celebration of their fawning coverage of today’s royal wedding.
Wankley winner no swan song
It is with great reluctance, and some trepidation, that Richard Farmer felt bound to express strong disagreement with the editorial judgment of his Crikey editor regarding the choice of last week’s Wankley award winner.
Wankley Awards: And the Gold Wankley for worst media stunt of the year goes to …
The 2010 Crikey Wankley Awards offer a roll-call of the worst of the worst in Australian media — the beat-ups and bust-ups; a who’s who of shameless spinners, choleric columnists and starry-eyed, scandal-seeking gutter rats. But who’s the ultimate winner?
wankley And the Wankley goes to … the Daily Tele’s mobile radiation shield story
Wherever he was on Thursday, Stephen Fenech’s ears must have been burning, but it wasn’t because of harmful electromagnetic radiation from his mobile phone.
Wankley Awards: The lamest campaign questions
More than a month of election campaigning under a bright media spotlight produces a lot of questions to leaders. A bunch of them are awful. Many are Wankley-worthy. Here’s the worst.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… heatwave hysteria
This week’s Wankley award goes to media organisations for their ridiculously over-the-top weather coverage, writes Ruth Brown.
And the almost Wankley goes to … Beavers!
There is no Friday in this working week, so there will be no Wankley Award as such. However, we would like to salute beavers everywhere, writes Jane Nethercote.
And the Wankley Award goes to…
Ok, Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman have done their bit to promote early detection of prostate cancer. However, writes Jane Nethercote.
And the Weekly Wankly Award goes to…not Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze was just the sideshow this week. But what a side show, writes Jane Nethercote.
