Tardy senator delays hearings. Which Coalition senator caused a committee hearing to be delayed by half an hour yesterday because of “running late”. It’s not the first time this senator has delayed committee proceedings and inconvenienced witnesses due to their tardiness. Colleagues are starting to notice.

ABC parachutes reporter into Pakistan. At great expense, the ABC opened a bureau in Kabul for talented reporter Sally Sara to ply her trade across Afghanistan and Pakistan. So why has Philip Williams flown in from London to cover the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s assassination, while Sara remains in Afghanistan? Why the extra cost given, as Crikey has reported, the ABC has told staff to cut back on travel until the end of the financial year?

Sun circ slide continues? If what I’m hearing is true, the next Herald Sun circulation audit will be an absolute shocker. You wrote yesterday about the future of Sunday Mail editor Scott Thompson, but what of the Southbank cabal of Simon Pristel, Phil Gardner and Peter Blunden?

Seven goes wireless in news fight. With Channel Nine simulcasting its 6pm news on community station Light FM in Melbourne, Seven has been seeking a way to up the ante. Apparently it has found it and will simulcast its own news service on commercial station Bay FM starting from Monday. The TV networks have been trying to find a way to improve their ratings in the south-western parts of Melbourne and beyond for years and it looks like Seven might have found it.