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The Economist rap

Published
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John Barrdear
on 7 May 2008
in Economics and Media
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This is fantastic.

Psikotic – The Economist

Sweating the small stuff

Published
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John Barrdear
on 7 February 2008
in Australia and Media
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Oh, c’mon.  How is this news?  $1,111 across 40 people is less than $28 per person.  It’s cheaper than it would have been going down to the local cafe.

Congratulations, News Corp, you’ve managed to slip even lower on my internal quality-of-the-media rating.

Chaser and US newspapers

Published
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John Barrdear
on 7 September 2007
in Australia, Media and USA
. 3 Comments

Andrew Leigh writes:

Which brings me to the Chaser, a program of such blokey irreverence it could only have been developed in Oz. For some odd reason, the Chaser lads have been copping flack over the past 24 hours for their APEC stunt. Watching stern-faced Mark Day on Today Tonight last night, you would have thought that the lads brought us within inches of armaggedon. Is it just me, or does anyone else feel a kind of cheeky pride at being part of a country where the public broadcaster pays comedians to dress up as Osama in a Canadian car, and attempt to meet George Bush?

It’s not just you. More power to ‘em.

I do wonder about Andrew’s views on US newspapers, though:

When it comes to newspapers, theirs are unquestionably the best in the world - led by the New York Times, and followed at some distance by the WSJ, WaPo, LA Times, and others.

How does the FT not cut the mustard?