Does social butterfly Stephen Conroy have the best job in Australia? Parliamentary documents reveal that Senator Conroy has attended football, AFL, motor racing and horse-racing events as guests of the commercial TV networks and other companies that depend on his decisions for millions of dollars in revenue. — The Age
Tiny, rather unimportant town fights back. The community of Sneaky Bay, a small town on South Australia’s west coast, has reacted angrily to an Age article describing it as a “tiny, rather unimportant town”. Streaky Bay tourism, arts and community development officer Jayne Holland says the article is riddled with errors. — ABC Online
Who will control the iPad? There’s a heated turf war going on inside the New York Times over the iPad, pitting print die-hards against people focused on the Times‘ digital future. The internal fight may determine how relevant — and profitable — America’s most prominent newspaper can remain in the digital future. — Gawker
Sick of your valuable TV time being interrupted by ads? Solution: watch Glenn Beck. The UK broadcast of Fox News conservative pundit Glenn Beck’s show has been forced to run for five days without advertisements, after 103 companies decided to pull out. “We in no way want to promote the hateful rhetoric of Mr Glenn Beck, and therefore take this matter very seriously,” said Dino Balzano, director of advertising at Concord Music Group. — Think Progress
Britain’s next radio star: the Pope. The director-general of the BBC is in discussions with Vatican officials over the Pope contributing to Radio 4’s Thought for the Day religious slot. — The Guardian
I tweet, therefore I am burgled. A new website called Please Rob Me launched this week, providing a tongue-in-cheek directory of empty houses for would-be burglars, along with a wake-up call about online privacy. Please Rob Me is basically a souped-up Twitter search engine that displays a rolling list of “recently empty houses” that can be searched by location. — Montreal Gazette
Ummm……”Sneaky Bay”? Not sure if that’s a typo or you’re just taking the piss. 🙂
LOL at ‘sneaky’ – It’s actually a nice enough town. If you were to look over Australia, I’m sure you could find hundreds, maybe thousands of towns that would qualify as tiny and unimportant.
(disclosure: My cousin lives there)
Unless Rudd starts acting like a leader and does something about Conroy and now Garrett, he is beginning to slide his Govt into the ranks of the one termers. He must concede the pair are doing untold damage to the Govt, damage that for all his spin will not be retreived. Already the polls are loud and clear about his personal leadership and style, now Rudd takes on the ignorance and stubborness shown by Howard in his last months. It is said of the Coalition, they think they are born to rule, throw Rudd into that box.