Parochialism the flavour of the day at News Ltd. News Limited’s tabloid stable outdid itself today in the pursuit of fearless, objective journalism as it aimed to answer that eternal conundrum — which city is Australia’s food capital? And the winner is… (drum roll please): whatever city you live in. “It’s Sydney, of course,” declares the Daily Telegraph. Melbourne is tops, the Herald Sun’s food critic Simon Plant declares citing, among other reasons, the fact that all three MasterChef judges are Melburnians. Adelaide Advertiser food editor Simon Wilkinson, shock horror, selects Adelaide as the best. And so on and so forth. After all, why be objective, weighing up the pros and cons of various cities to arrive at a definitive conclusion, when you can simply instruct your culinary scribes to tell readers what they want to hear. And the biggest scandal of all: Canberra doesn’t even rate a mention! — Matthew Knott

I’m not a racist, but … An Alice Springs man has set up a Facebook site blaming Aborigines for all the woes of the Territory town, but says he isn’t a racist. — NT News

Can New Yorker poets write about anything but poetry? It seems poets published in the New Yorker have taken the dictum “write about what you know” a bit too far, with thorough  statistical analysis revealing 27 % of the magazine’s poems are about poetry. — Slate

Milestone for Hamas: arrests first ever journalist! “A British journalist has been arrested by the Hamas authorities in Gaza and detained for 15 days of questioning, Hamas officials said on Monday, citing suspicion of unspecified security offences.” — New York Times

Should Australian journalists be allowed to report on suicides? Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry has called for a softening of the media guidelines for reporting suicide. Largely, the media does not report suicide in any depth, and sometimes not at all, with some experts claiming stories about suicide lead to “copycat” attempts. — The Drum

Oops, they did it again: the blogosphere uncovers more examples of dodgy climate data. “A science blogger has uncovered a catalogue of errors in Met Office records that form a central part of the scientific evidence for global warming. The blogger identified a number of problems with the way measurements from Australian weather stations were being averaged.” — The Times