Back to the future. News Limited websites had the scoop yesterday afternoon — Julia Gillard had left Government House after asking for an election to be called …
SBS’ not-quite-live tour coverage. Last night’s SBS coverage of the Tour de France, after missing two category 1 climbs and Lance Armstrong taking the lead in the stage, at least had the grace to skip Gabriel Gaté to go to the action live so we could see the summiting of the Col du Tourmalet, the biggest climb of this year’s event. The commentators explicitly said they were going to live coverage, and it was badged “LIVE” in the corner, but was actually 15 minutes behind the real action. It stayed that way until the first ad break, when the riders miraculously covered 25 kilometres in a one-minute ad break.
SBS has had great coverage of the tour this year, when it’s on, but their timing — so often on a cooking segment or ad breaks for climbs and sprints — has been woeful for the whole event. Not to mention the dubious taste of yesterday’s crash-p-rn montage before riders descended the Col de Portet d’Aspet — the descent where Fabio Casartelli died during the race 15 years ago. — Crikey reader Daniel Bond
Headless body in topless bar. An early contender for best headline of the day, from the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Taser hits Cox in groin — accident, say police‘. Given the incident happened in the UK, we reckon the headline opportunities were the only reason it ran …
Social media — (almost) everyone’s doing it
“According to comScore, of the 38.2 million people age 15 and over who went online in May 2010, 9 out of 10 visited at least one social networking site …” — Beehive City
Revenue returns to commercial TV
“The commercial free-to-air television networks are expecting to record a big lift in revenue thanks to a strong rebound in advertising.” — The Australian
One frock, three magazine covers
“Getting yourself on three glossy magazine covers in the same month is quite some feat. But that’s exactly what has happened this month.” — The Guardian
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