What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
elections
“best argument against democracy is 5 min conversation with the averag VOTER sa winston churchil who was aktualy not bad and looking at colection of numskuls oiks roters bulies and cads of st custards he may hav a point.” ~ Nigel Molesworth esq, the goriller of 3b
Media Circus: What A Drag Edition
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Media Circus: Woman Has A Baby Edition
What non-royal story has piqued your media interests lately?
Media Circus: Invisible Divorce Abbott-Watch Edition
Abbott really is living in a Bizarro-World.
Media Circus: Farewell Oakeshott and Windsor edition
And hello Barnaby Joyce entering the Lower House in the next election.
Media Circus: WTF Labor? edition
The heavy panting from the press gallery over the possibility of another Labor leadership spill has been quite repellent, but maybe it isn’t just a blip in the news-cycle. Maybe the gallery really is onto something.
WTF, Australia?
Fiona Katauskas nails it.
On Political Polls and Negative Rainfall
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-26/coalition-support-leaps-in-latest-newspoll/4593938 – Coalition support leaps in latest Newspoll (Trigger warning: “smug bastard” photo of Tony Abbott). Does it occur to anyone else this headline is rather like “Phenomenal amount of rain didn’t fall yesterday”? According to this poll, if somehow… Read More ›
Media Circus: Election Announcement Edition
A Federal election in September, violence in Egypt and Syria, Obama proposes immigration reforms and appoints John Kerry his new Secretary of State, deaths and damage are being tallied in Tasmanian/Victorian fires and Queensland floods. What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.
Media Circus: Inauguration edition
What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.