Tele breaches press standards Sydney’s Daily Telegraph has fallen foul of the Australian Press Council yet again, over an article claiming the Greens opposed a windfarm in Tasmania.
Former Greens leader Richard Di Natale complained the article was inaccurate and misleading — the party had never opposed the farm, a fact the Tele failed to check. In its adjudication, the Press Council said the Tele failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the article was accurate and not misleading, and that the article wasn’t reasonably fair and balanced.
The paper also breached guidelines by failing to provide a correction. But with reports the Press Council is in dire financial trouble, could this be the last time the Tele gets dragged?
Good Sir Darren Darren Goodsir, former editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald-turned-University of NSW PR honcho found himself in a real tough spot on the weekend, when his Twitter account was hacked.
And not hacked in an “Christopher Pyne liking a stray pornographic tweet” kind of way, but instead viciously compromised by what seems to be an army of malevolent teen gamers. For most of Saturday, Goodsir’s Twitter account spewed out a bunch of lewd tweets, with the occasional racist slur thrown in for good measure.
We don’t really know why the trolls came for Goodsir, but the offending tweets have thankfully been taken down.
Succession S03 The BBC is hoping to soothe the impending TV drought with a warts and all look at House Murdoch. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty promises plenty of glimpses of private jets, penthouses and politicians, while also trying a little too hard to be like the hit HBO series loosely based on the dynasty.
It could also promise a glimpse at a few family black sheep, the latest of which is 20-year-old Charlotte Emma Freud, one of Rupert’s 13 grandchildren and Sigmund Freud’s great-great-granddaughter, Elisabeth Murdoch was reportedly so concerned about her daughter’s gothy, Juul-scented aesthetic she hired a personal shopper to stop her showing too much cleavage at a family wedding last year.
Fox unhinging continues On the subject of Murdochs, it’s been a rough fortnight Fox News, even by its own dire standards. A writer for Tucker Carlson, Fox’s biggest reactionary ratings draw-card, was, shockingly, exposed as an unrepentant internet racist.
A leading news anchor was fired over the old Fox News bugbear, sexual harassment; and the network was caught cropping Donald Trump out of a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One of the network’s biggest names, Shep Smith, has jumped ship to MSNBC. And, in more incredibly dark news out of Fox-land, there are rumours Tucker “14 words” Carlson could line up as Trump’s successor in 2024.
Compare the pair In previewing today’s parliamentary inquiry into class actions, The Sydney Morning Herald‘s article led with: “Rebecca Oates had given up”.
Hours later, Oates, who was one of the plaintiffs in the vaginal mesh implants class action against Johnson & Johnson, made another appearance, this time in The Guardian.
Same plaintiff, same issue, same cardigan. Oates was one of 1300 women who took part in the class action. What are the odds?
Let’s go Sharks Last week, Scott Morrison said he would be taking a bit of time off with wife Jenny and the kids. So on Saturday, as Victoria re-entered lockdown he showed up at Kogarah, all baseball capped and buttoned up, to watch his beloved Sharkies get flogged 56-24 by the Penrith Panthers. Optics so bad he even managed to briefly lose The Oz. Normality was restored this morning, when the national broadsheet published a piece arguing that Morrison displayed “leadership and loyalty” by being at the footy.
OMG, The Tele caught peddling misinformation.
Stop the presses!
And Darren Goodsir, well done. Ha ha ha!
Oh, don’t worry about that!
Living in WA we have our fake news media, the problem is there is no alternative.
Our once much loved preeminent media, The West Australian had an EXCLUSIVE report on the front page plus a two-page heartwarming PR spread one of its employees becoming a Perth Lord Mayor Candidate in this weekend’s edition.
I am sure we can expect unbiased reporting if Mr. Zempelis gets elected and there is another scandal at the Perth City Council, and similar coverage for all local elections in the future. My sympathies to the other candidates, including one or Mr. Zempelis’ former collegues.
I am not a fan of the politics or culture wars of Scott Morrison, but he has worked hard under a lot of pressure over the last 4 months. Who cares if he went to a football match on Saturday? (unless it was in Hawaii).
As with Hawaii, the issue was not so much the holiday, or Saint Scotty going to a football game. It was the associated lies and crap from him and his office that highlighted then and highlight again, just how vile he is as a human being. I agree he can go to the footy and it can be seen as him “leading the way”, but he never quite gets the substance of the issue. After he returned from Hawaii, his comments suggested (to me and I think others) that he saw himself as Australia’s monarch – that his absence caused us “anxiety” and his return assuaged that anxiety, just because he was now back and we would all feel better. In the case of the footy game, he managed to miss the fact that only days earlier, he had trumpeted how “we are all Melbournians” and “in this together” and then, seemingly at odds with his jingoistic and ultimately shallow proclamation of unity, he showed that he is not willing to set an example. Sure , others were at the game, but he is the one in the media trying to have us believe he is the great leader and knows Australia’s pain. So his response was that he “has been working hard” and he was (somehow) working while at the game!. The guy is simply unable to summon anything resembling genuine empathy – although occasionally he manages to fake same. The sooner this country is rid of Saint Scotty, his Pentecostal entourage of sycophants who are making their way into the LNP, the Liberal Party and the Parliament and their perverse ideas about only those who work hard and want success get it and deserve it and those who are society’s losers sowed their own seeds, the better.