Crikey: Guy Rundle’s Cut & Paste ‘scoop’ in the wrong Lane

The great Cut & Paste unmasking that wasn’t. Plus: haunted houses, cocktails, and footy talk.

Cut & Paste revealed? Crikey seems to think so. Guy Rundle with the big “scoop”, yesterday:

Bernard Lane now has the thankless task of finding 20-year-old press clippings, to show that someone who says they didn’t say a thing, actually said a thing. A pity, because C&P relies for its effect on anonymity.

Not so fast. The Australian’s James Jeffrey, Twitter, yesterday:

Bernard is a very occasional Cut & Paste locum. Or in other words … Bernard is not the Cut & Paster you are looking for.

They do seem a bit obsessed. More from Crikey, yesterday:

Courage, Bernard. We will read the product of your humiliating drudgery with deep sympathy.

Jeffrey would like to make one thing clear, however. Twitter, yesterday:

And while we’re here, it ain’t me.

Ghouls you can use. Fairfax’s Domain website offers “signs your house is haunted”, yesterday:

You might feel like something’s following you around … You might feel like something’s following you around … (and) If there’s a ghost in your house it’ll be cold where the ghost is.

The capital of “Don’t!”. James Valentine imagines how Sydney would retool Hobart’s winter solstice festival, The Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday:

In Sydney a symbolic fire would be lit. There would be a carefully guarded perimeter and I suspect by the time the committee finished dealing with issues of sustainability and smoke, it would be a mock electric fire powered by a battery charged on solar power during daylight.

Why does this sound familiar? The Australian Financial Review on a boozy special from Aunty, Tuesday:

Instead of badgering a pollie for a carbonara recipe, (Annabel) Crabb has decided to dedicate next Thursday night’s program to an exploration of politically inspired cocktails and has lined up a collection of ex-political staffers and press gallery habitues.

We have no clue. The Australian’s Strewth column inaugurates its “Campaign Cocktails” feature, May 12:

Strewth is here to soften the blow with a selection of campaign cocktails — but just one a day, though; we’re not dipsos.

Presumably they won’t be doing the shoot at Aldi. The West Australian reports, Wednesday:

Aldi’s plans to sell alcohol are in jeopardy after WA’s liquor authority found its booze was so cheap it posed a greater risk to public health than other retailers.

The movie of the trial will be called “Twelve Very Irritated Men”. AAP, Wednesday:

A jury has been selected for a US copyright trial over Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven … The panel will have to decide whether the members of Led Zeppelin ripped off the song’s famous riff, which generations of aspiring guitarists have tried to copy.

Mark Textor suggests livening up political commentary with some “footy talk”, Business Insider Australia, Wednesday

Both parties have to come here to play. After eight weeks, in the end it will be a game of two halves of four weeks each, and both teams need to play for the full 80,000 minutes. All the candidates and leaders will be out on their feet by the end of this monster game and we have to give it to all the boys on both sides for still giving 110% effort …