Category Archives: Media

National News Program Spreading Racist Jokes?

The Project, the lighter news program broadcast six nights a week on Network Ten in Australia has gone through a number of changes of format and timeslot since its inception. It has defied this instability – (usually a recipe for alienating fans) – and continues to improve its ratings position. But it isn’t all improvement, [...]

Photo Cropping Fail

Loving the photo cropping fail currently currently on display on the Geelong Advertiser website: The caption reads: “Harry Taylor at Geelong training yesterday.” Harry must be a dentist now, because we can’t show you his face.

Metro Trains Melbourne: Live from 1995!

Melbourne’s suburban train operator Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) has copped a lot of flack in recent days over its decision to drop sending service updates on Twitter for anything other than “major delays” – which they are defining as “20 or more minutes”. They are telling customers to “regularly check their website” for details of [...]

Idea: Show Current Affairs on Current Affairs Shows

It really irks me that the two leading current affairs programs in Australia – Nine’s A Current Affair (ACA), and Seven’s Today Tonight (TT) – never seem to actually show any actual current affairs stories. They generally show what often don’t seem like much more than paid advertorials. Incidentally, these two programs finished fifth and [...]

Optus Rewards Website Sexist Much?

I got a whiff of a really bad piece of work from Optus on Twitter this morning, in regards to the registration page for their Optus Rewards website (click image for larger view): Really? “Please select a title and the title should match with the gender.” So a woman can’t be a doctor, according to [...]

F-Bombgate: Media Cares, Most People Do Not

The media circus arising from the Stephen Conroy F-Bomb continues today. The media seem to care a hell of a lot about it. Problem is, according to a Fairfax online poll, it seems most people do not. Next Meerkat Manor, But first Communications Minister Drops F-bomb As of 2pm AEDST, December 14, 2011 – the [...]

That Political F-Bomb

Stephen Conroy dropped the “f-bomb” at the National Press Club (NPC) today. So what? As much as I detest some of the policies Conroy holds dear to his heart – most notably his mandatory internet filtering plan – it is actually interesting that much of the media has gone on the attack because he showed [...]

Kyle Sandilands: Girl?

Seems in the wake of Kyle Sandilands calling a news.com.au reporter a “fat slag”, and Holden pulling their sponsorship from Sandilands’ radio show as a result, that someone at News Limited may have wanted to subliminally call him a girl? Holden Pulls Sponsorship of Kyle and Jackie O Show Freudian? Maybe.