Their ABC dumps impartiality with gay abandon
This morning The Australian reported ABC staff had been warned to zip it over marriage equality: ABC News Editorial Policy…
The Age’s big week
It’s been a big week for Fairfax Media and The Age — a big week in their decline. First there…
Why is our national broadcaster bagging our national day?
What’s wrong with the headline below from the clickbait-farm-come-Game-of-Thrones-recap-service formerly known as the Fairfax press (hint — the title to…
Just when you think Fairfax couldn’t be more idiotic
Just when you think Fairfax couldn’t go any lower, couldn’t be more asinine, they come along and surprise you. “Are…
Abbott birther barminess booms
Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… We’re not in Kansas anymore, people. You remember that Abbott birther barminess…
Fairfax fools join the birther brigade
What else were they ever going to do? Two Green senators were forced to resign because they’re better at self-righteousness than…
Won’t somebody please think of Menzies’ child?
I’m going to bury my lead here, but it’s for the good of the story. Earlier today Australian Taxpayers Association…
Gore blimey! Al’s that for a stack?
Want to have some innocent merriment at the expense of the man who put the cash into climate catastrophe, Al…
If it was anyone else, they’d be screaming ‘Racist!’
A new arrival from Africa is scared by a vacuum cleaner. Ha bloody ha. It might have made a gag once…
Who’s Little Collin?
Note it down. June 19, 2017. The day the Melbourne Age died of shame. Or should have, if it had…
What sells better? Empowerment or victimhood?
What sells better? Empowerment or victimhood? That garbage pail known as the Melbourne Age couldn’t make up its mind, so…
Goodbye to all that
The Age made a song and dance today about the departure of their political editor Michael Gordon. And rightly, too.…
When racism’s not racism
Excuse me. I always though Wonder Woman came from the Amazon island of Themyscira. Apparently not. She’s Jewish. Israeli. And…
Malcolm and May: separated at birth?
July 2, 2016. Stable government. Fourteen seats lost. A majority of one. June 8, 2017. Strong, stable leadership in the…
Six ways you’ve ruined your newspaper
From your favourite chipwrapper and mine. Vital news that demonstrates the importance of independent, quality media. Vital news that demonstrates…
Another day, another stuff-up from The Age
Ask yourself. You’re an editor at what still likes to think of itself as a paper of record in a…
We warn the Tsar
If there’s been a hot topic of late in media, it’s been the future of Fairfax. Sackings, strikes, Senate hearing…
Rejoice, rejoice: Fairfax are back
Rejoice, yes rejoice, all good people. The strike at Fairfax is over. The journos we so missed are back at…
Your ABC: pissing away your taxes
Have a look at how much money the ABC gets in tonight’s budget, but before you do have a look…
Fairfax: you’ll really miss us when we’re gone
Fairfax journalists are — gosh, how retro — out on strike for a week over job cuts. They’ve taken to…
Go home, Fairfax, you’re drunk
From The Age website, earlier this evening. As John McEnroe used to say: “You cannot be serious!” Got something to…
The terrible truth about Earth Hour revealed
The Vocal website probably doesn’t figure large in Spectator readers’ minds. Indeed, it doesn’t figure large at all. It’s not…
Please explain?
From The Age website this evening. It’s clearly all got too much for the poor petals. They’ve cracked under the…
Alive but not alive
CEO Greg Hywood insists the print editions of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will continue for a while…
It’s quality all the way at Michelle Guthrie’s ABC
Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to…
