More difficulties with the infernal internet machine at The Spectator Australia, where clicking on the “continue reading” button at the bottom of each article takes you back to the UK website. Perhaps the Brits are simply embarrassed at the way in which Tom “Heidi” Switzer is veering away from the standard of a confident conservative magazine into the usual Romper Room of reaction and resentment.

When you do perservere, wonders behold. Take this bit from Andrew Bolt’s puff piece about Keith Windschuttle’s “Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume three” (volume two forthcoming):

“My own attention was first caught by [Peter] Read when I read a speech he gave in 1996, naming as the two most prominent ‘stolen’ children Charles Perkins and Lowitja O’Donoghue. Raised in the Northern Territory, I smelled a rat. Perkins was an Alice Springs boy….”

That would be Charles Perkins, the distinguished Australian and aboriginal community leader. And of course the Bolter is referring to Perkins as a youth. But how wonderful to have the opportunity to call a black man ‘boy’ again! If only the Speccie, like The Economist, had an audio version, so we could hear it in that eksent. — Guy Rundle

News rallies troops for pay-per-view news sites

“News Corporation held a high-level meeting of 50 or so newspaper executives from around the globe in New York late last month to discuss the company’s plans to charge for online content.” — The Australian

Google HQ: Inside the world’s most influential media company

“To visit Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet.” — The Guardian

Left v Right: The fierce Washington media monitoring machines

“From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged.” — Politico