Category Archives: Media

Channel Seven – Please Get It Right!

Over the weekend, Channel Seven Melbourne was heavily promoting a “special report” to be screened on this evening’s nightly news bulletin, extolling the virtues of living in Geelong instead of Melbourne, and commuting into Melbourne for work. About how “easy” and “relaxed” this commute is. I regularly do this commute, and I can warn the […]

Photoshop Fail

I was just watching a video about the three-match suspension of Melbourne player Jack Trengrove on the Herald-Sun AFL Minisite, and noticed an epic Photoshop fail. I’m Not Going to Change the Way I Play Firstly, lets look at a shot from within the running video: Note the lack of a “Herald-Sun Superfooty” sign on […]

Live From A Little Earlier, Again!

Checking the Yahoo!7 TV Guide over the weekend, I came across a strange classification for an AFL match shown on Channel Ten: Could someone explain to me what a “Live Repeat” is? I’m not sure. Ironically, this game broadcast was neither “live” – after all, free-to-air channels refuse to show them live – and nor […]

Air France 447: How Much More Will We Learn?

With the recent discovery of the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 almost four kilometres beneath the surface of the mid-Atlantic Ocean, we may soon discover the truth about how this plane was brought down – something which has so far been not much more than a complete mystery. What we do know has been […]

Newspaper Fail: Why Bother?

When reading this article in regards to potential changes to taxi regulations in Victoria, I found myself asking – “why bother?” – when looking at the accompanying picture. Someone took the time to blank out the taxi number of the front vehicle, but not the others! Why bother taking the time to block the first […]

WTF Moment from The Australian

Flicking around the online news media over a cup of Earl Grey this afternoon, I came across this rather peculiar article at The Australian website. “COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy seems destined to make his own job harder than needed, with breathtaking gaps in his consultative process and an extraordinary belief that everyone should simply take […]

Fun and Failure at the Herald-Sun

Got this great screen capture from the Herald-Sun newspaper website this morning. First it was the failure – the nicely put “ceasfire” in Libya. Surely a spellchecker fail on “ceasefire”? Nice one guys. Then some cheeky humour with “Police to Test Ricky Nixon’s Undies” – referring to disgraced AFL player agent Ricky Nixon, and his […]

More Australian Government Media Content Control

Hot on the heels of the divisive mandatory internet filtering debate in this country, comes yet more government control being exerted over the content of media – with the news that the government will require the next operator of the Australia Network to provide advance notice of programming guides to the Department of Foreign Affairs […]

Geelong Advertiser Oopsy

Great to see a new look Geelong Advertiser website this morning – a great improvement on the previous cluttered mess. However, I think a few QC checks went astray: Is it just me, or are these circled links in the wrong place? Oops!

Headline of the Day: Taking the Piss

Almost spat my cup of tea all over my laptop screen when I looked at this tag headline as it appeared on the Herald Sun website this afternoon. Snapped penis? Surely the headline writers are taking the piss on a Friday afternoon! Of course, the “snapping of the penis” referred to in the article involved […]