In the end all it takes is one strike and all the fat fingers come out
And elsewhere, the eternal perils of joining the herd and stampeding towards a palace ‘death’.
And elsewhere, the eternal perils of joining the herd and stampeding towards a palace ‘death’.
Page one headline on the strike-hit Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:
Household debt a threat to ecomomy (sic)
Mamamia pondering this yesterday:
The strain of Fairfax’s current staff strike has come to a head after The Sydney Morning Herald published its Friday newspaper with a major typo appearing on its front page.
It seems Fairfax isn’t the only one feeling the strain. Mamamia cranks into gear on Twitter, forgets about plurals and creates a new continent into the bargain:
This typo on the front page of one of Austalia’s (sic) biggest newspaper (sic) speaks volumes.
A little too quick out of the blocks. Paul Bongiorno on Twitter at 12.58pm on Thursday:
There has been a death at Buckingham Palace. World waits for an official announcement.
Media Diarist Stephen Brook on The Australian’s website yesterday:
That no one knew why (there’d been a meeting at Buckingham Palace) didn’t stop countless reports, theories, columns and live crosses. It was a very bad case of: “We don’t know anything — but we have the most comprehensive coverage!” The individual gaffes were bad enough: in London The Sun’s website pushed the wrong button at the wrong time and accidentally published a pre-prepared story with the headline: “Prince Philip dead at 95, how did the Duke of Edinburgh die, etc etc.” And locally, poor Tracy Grimshaw, straining to hear into her earpiece during a live cross to London on Nine’s A Current Affair, told her viewers: “OK Michael, I am hearing that there is a royal announcement, there has been an announcement, that the Queen is stepping down from public life.” … is it any wonder that readers regard the media as a laughing stock when no one can stand firm against a tide of speculation and decide: “We are not going to touch this until we know what is going on.”
Reports of Prince Philip’s death greatly exaggerated. Headline in The Daily Telegraph yesterday:
Much a-duke about nothing.
CNN yesterday:
Republican representative Chris Collins admitted Thursday that he did not read the full healthcare bill before voting for it. “I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not. But I can also assure you my staff did. We have to rely on our staff,” Collins told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room … Blitzer pressed further, “This legislation affects one-fifth of the US economy, and millions of millions of Americans. Don’t you think it was important to sit down and read the language of this bill?” But Collins stuck to his admission, and noted he probably wasn’t the only congressman who didn’t read the bill in its entirety … Earlier in the day, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “every member who voted on this bill had more than enough time to read every aspect of it.”
There’s an easier way to do this, Chris. Bill Shorten in April 2012:
I haven’t seen what (Julia Gillard’s) said, but let me say I support what it is she said … I support what she said … My view is what the prime minister’s view is.
Dollars urgently required. From the Crinkling News on Indiegogo.com yesterday:
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