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Showing posts with label Media Watch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media Watch. Show all posts
Friday, 5 July 2019

NT News sets yet another new low level

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Wednesday's NT News provided yet another example of the depths to which it's prepared to go to ensure it maintains it position at ...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

The Northern Star today

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The scoreboard at the Star today reads: Advertising Department 1, Newsroom nil It seems "juxtaposition" isn't in the d...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

Daily Examiner's policy on letter writers' names?

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Was Grafton's Daily Examiner pulling its readers' legs last Wednesday? The Examiner kicked off with a photo on its front page ...
Saturday, 16 November 2013

Today's APN reading competition

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A court report appearing in an APN newspaper today makes one wonder what was deleted from the report. Readers who work out the answer might...
Monday, 7 October 2013

The Daily Examiner erects Coward's Castle

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On 20 September 2013 The Daily Examiner published this rather silly and misleading, but otherwise unremarkable, letter to the editor: ...
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Friday, 20 September 2013

"Name supplied" - readers invited to guess who penned the letter

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There are definitely times when newspapers publishing letters to editors shouldn't publish writers' names. However, today's edi...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

DEX blooper - reprints old race fields

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The only things correct in the four-page racing lift-out in today's Daily Examiner are the paper's name and the date. Today's ...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Now that North Coast council elections are over we can expect to find a lot of airborne pokers being reported by the media with a straight face.....

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....as new councillors test our credulity. So just to remind everyone what mockery for slipshod reporting looks like, h-e-e-e-e-e-r’s Aunty ...
Friday, 7 September 2012

If you like reading scrambled editorial comment, this one is hard to beat

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Readers who have a preference for tortuous editorials that have all the hallmarks of a dog's breakfast, this week's piece cobbled to...
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Saturday, 14 July 2012

NRMA's Open Road: dodgy promotions

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     A Yamba resident contributed a tear jerking yarn to the latest edition of the NRMA's Open Road about her new puppy escaping from h...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

Editor has a lend of his readers

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Northern Star editor David Kirkpatrick is prone to s-t-r-e-t-c-h things a bit, but today's piece is going way too far. Under the head...
Thursday, 24 May 2012

Daily Examiner's leading opinion piece contains errors of fact

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Without commenting on the merit or otherwise of the damages claims a number of persons have launched against the State of NSW in relation t...
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Thursday, 8 September 2011

What do they teach in journalism 101 these days?

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Remember the days when newspaper reporters told their readers the important bits of information about their stories? Well, could someone ple...
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Good riddance of bad rubbish

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The Port Paper is closing its doors today ... how sad! Not too many tears will be shed over that bit of information. The paper, which para...
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Saturday, 27 August 2011

Update on the National Party's very friendly Port Macquarie newspaper

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Comments flowing from National Party sources about the independence of  The Port Paper don't stack up. Although the paper parades with...
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Friday, 26 August 2011

How could anyone believe anything that appears in this cellar-dwelling rag

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Thanks, ABC North Coast Radio, for alerting listeners to a very bodgy newspaper that had a free, below the belt, shot at Rob Oakeshott, th...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Memo to Clarence Valley Review: don't publish advertisements and pretend they're news items

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This week's Lower Clarence Review provides yet another example that it doesn't know the difference between news items and advertis...
Friday, 19 August 2011

NEWS FLASH: Examiner in damage control mode, pulls out the big gun

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Phew! It's been a big week at the Daily Examiner . First, it was its chief-of-staff. Then, it was its media sales manager. Now, its big...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Chip Le Grand creates a climate change sob story

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The Australian published a  s-s-s-so-sob story : IT is not easy watching one of your reporters get done over by Media Watch. Particularl...
Saturday, 1 August 2009

Editor made use of internet sources, but he forgot to thank them

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The front page of today's Daily Examiner carries a report written by its editor, Peter Chapman, about the disqualification of a jockey ...