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: And the Wankley goes to… a press packed with Rafters
Mel Rafter, a character from TV soap Packed To The Rafters, has been written out of the script so an actress can try her hand at Hollywood. So, who cares? Well, we do apparently. Why else would the media relentlessly cover the ‘death’ of a television character as news?
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 Gold Coast Bulletin’s V8 rev-up
As the Gold Coast spiv community struggles to rev-up the hyperbole ahead of the Gold Coast 600 V8 race this weekend, the biggest story of all appears to have been ignored by the glitter strip’s sole daily newspaper.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… Miranda Devine, sticking up for the blokes
They promised she’d be “feisty”. Daily Telegraph editor Garry Linnell said she “attracts debate, and makes you feel something”. The “hardest-hitting columnist” in NSW, Miranda Devine is back on the national stage with a bang.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… power out for Melbourne’s media
The people of New South Wales have a lot to be angry about — a toxic Labor government, a string of knifed premiers, a culture of ministerial incompetence. But why would the Daily Tele would try now to plunge an additional stake into the heart of an already terminal government over electricity prices?
Wankley Awards: The Latham/Henderson double act
This week’s Wankley goes to a dual bout of disingenuousness between the upstanding director of the Sydney Institute, Gerard Henderson and fellow Fairfax columnist and former Liverpool Mayor Mark Latham.
Wankley Awards: Cock a doodle don’t (kill him)
Crikey loves slow news days. They yield some of the most memorable stories. Like this pearler from the Newcastle Herald yesterday lamenting that a “rampaging rooster” had run foul of residents in the suburbs of New Lambton.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … the Herald Sun’s Fev ‘charge’ beat-up
It was panic stations at the Southbank offices of the Herald Sun yesterday when its front page Brendan Fevola exclusive was torpedoed by the cops just hours after the little paper appeared on the streets.
Wankley Awards: The Wankley Award goes to… The Daily Tele’s Paul ‘flogger’ Kent
Leave Matthew Newton alone. That’s exactly what the media should be doing right now.
Wankley Awards: The whole Bingle bungle
Bingle. Fevola. The shower. That photo. Everyone has dipped their nibs into the inkwell of shame, transforming a former home wrecker/WAG into a cowed media victim. But is that the whole story?
And the Wankley goes to … Fashion Week coverage, belittling the big
For their championing of chubby, several media outlets have this week earned the Wankley.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … ACA and The Hun
It’s an embarrassment of riches down here at the Department of Wankley Deliberation this morning.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… sh-t-storm in a tea cup
It came as quite the shock to reporters nation-wide when their virgin ears were assaulted by Kevin Rudd’s foul-mouthed proclamation that politicians might be engaged in a “political sh-t-storm”, writes Ruth Brown.
Weekly Wankley Awards: from tragedy to farce
At the Crikey office we dream of the Wankley-free week. Alas, we’re not sure if it exists.
Weekly Wankley Award: Headline of the Week and more
It looked like Sydney’s Daily Telegraph would take out Crikey’s Headline of the Week but the Sydney Morning Herald pipped them at the post, writes Jane Nethercote.
Crikey’s Weekly Wankley Award: It’s time to cut the fat
Andrew Jaspan’s fortnight from hell and an FHM poll that got more attention than it deserves are under the spotlight this week, writes Jane Nethercote.
And the Wankley Award goes to … Peter Overton
Peter Overton, your heartwarming tale of incest makes you Crikey’s worthy Wankley of the Week, writes Sophie Black.
And the Wankley Award goes to … so many people
Nods all round this week.
And the Wankley goes to … radio jocks
Well-known psychic to the stars Derryn Hinch has been doing his old “I know how he died” routine. But he’s not our winner, writes Jane Nethercote.
