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Showing posts with label media bloopers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media bloopers. Show all posts
Tuesday 9 June 2020

This Is Not Journalism or How A 165 Year Old Australian Masthead Finally Lost Its Good Name

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The Age newspaper has been read in Melbourne since October 1854. Over the years it grew in circulation until it was read across the stat...
Tuesday 24 February 2015

The Daily Examiner makes unforgivable factual error

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The myriad of typos over the years one can laugh at – after all who doesn’t suffer from fat thumb from time to time. However, errors...
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Saturday 10 January 2015

Lapse in taste by News Corp

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Hot on the heels of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch's December 2014 callous tweet   comes  The Guardian   9 January 2015   report ...
Saturday 5 April 2014

STOP THE PRESS: Yamba has an airport!

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This is what happens when a regional newspaper fails to keep its journalists moving around the the area it circulates and, becomes locked i...
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Wednesday 11 December 2013

Hitler was a time traveller!

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News.com.au commits an historic blooper on 6 December 2013: This military hospital was built in 1989 to house tuberculosis patients...
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...
Thursday 26 September 2013

Go halfway round the world and do well in an international triathlon - come home and the local media can't decide on your surname.

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One can only guess how Ray Hunt of Yamba must have felt when he opened his morning paper yesterday....... The Daily Examiner 25 Sep...
Sunday 12 May 2013

The Northern Star contracts a case of the jimmy britts

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The Northern Star is taken down in more ways than one... The Northern Star   4 May 2013 Urban Dictionary : 1. jimmy britt...
Friday 26 October 2012

CNN withdraws online article which suggests a woman's vote is ruled by her hormones

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  Right in the middle of the final half of the 2012 US Presidential Election CNN committed an editorial blunder by apparently giving ser...
Thursday 25 October 2012

Teh Parrot Eats Crow

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The Sydney Morning Herald 24 th October 2012: ‘BARBARA RAMJAN, the woman who accused Tony Abbott of intimidating her physically at Sy...
Wednesday 26 September 2012

Newspaper typo accidentally creates a gang of four on council :-)

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The Daily Examiner 26 September 2012 at 6am Clarence Valley Council’s new EE&C Committee membership is reported correctly abov...
Saturday 22 September 2012

Punters spewing over Daily Examiner's poor performance

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As if Wednesday's debacle at the Examiner wasn't enough to put punters off their weetbix, today's edition will have punters who...
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 ...
Monday 10 September 2012

Orams at it again on the front page of The Daily Examiner

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If ever a journo is going to gloriously balls up the front page of one of the local newspapers, it would be Graham teh meeja is me seco...
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