I never can understand these deals. Why don’t they just have this on Kayo? It just seems even more restrictive than it ever has to be.
I have Kayo and really enjoyed watching the water polo during Tokyo, and would probably have watched a bit if it was on Kayo, but certainly won’t be signing up to a newspaper to watch!
Interesting strategy. You’d think they’d at least try and get it on a platform which at least had other sports to try and catch casual viewers too, Amazon Prime since they showed some swimming or Kayo (sticking with Newscorp) come to mind.
His eminent career came under the microscope last month after The Australian published two stories which incorrectly inferred his appointments as a Federal Court judge and president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal were linked to a political donation made one day earlier by his brother, businessman Geoffrey Thomas.
After a complaint was made about the reporting, The Australian deleted the stories from its website and published an apology online and in its newspaper on Friday.
SMH is looking for a “CBD columnist”.
Pot calling the kettle black when The Guardian doesn’t have any journos on the payroll in Australia that aren’t Sydney or Melbourne based. Their coverage of non Sydney and Melbourne news has been laughable at times when it’s obvious they have someone that can’t write from a local perspective.
I had the opportunity to have a browse through the Sunday Herald Sun today while visiting a relative. When people say that it has become nothing more than a Liberal Party newsletter, they weren’t exaggerating. Giant front page headline and then two full pages (6, 7) around the Kimberley Kitching episode, bashing Labor.
The SA election win by Labor was tucked away in the bottom third of page 4 where nobody would find it.
Then there was a double page (page 24, 25) photo spread of Greg Hunt about his imminent retirement. This was more Women’s Weekly than the Women’s Weekly.
A full page then (62) of editorial again bashing Labor and talking up the Coalition government’s “achievements”, while significantly avoiding the federal government’s failings that have actually mattered to everyday people (disaster relief, vaccines, aged care, covid quarantine, climate change).
Peta Credlin’s column on the opposite page seemed remarkably apolitical while taking issue with the federal and (NSW) state government public servants around such things as the recent “Women’s Network” logo debacle. Something I was not altogether expecting.
Then Terry McCrann’s write up “Frydenberg’s budget could be enough victory in an ‘unwinnable’ election” (64, 65)
Then, not specifically political content, but full pages (2, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 97) of adverts for Harvey Norman and/or Domayne. Clearly putting his excessive JobKeeper payments to good use.
The Sun (as it was) and even the Herald Sun in its earlier years was always tabloid and specialised in shouty headlines to invoke extreme reaction, but the way it has declined in the last decade or so is sad to see. A paper that once spoke for Melbourne has now become so divisive and one-eyed it’s hard to take seriously.
News Corp has put its Brisbane printing complex up for sale.
(this could also go into betting and gambling thread)
I could be wrong but wouldn’t this technically be News Corp re-entering the Betting market? Didn’t they partly own Tab corp at one point?
The weekly Wednesday TV guide in the state mastheads has finally been fixed, with local information about regional channels. Since it returned last year, the NSW version had QLD information in their supplementary notes. WIN referred to as “STH”, which is accurate, as the main channel is called Channel Nine.
