Tag Archives: newslimited

2013: Posts Of The Year

In this the 2013 edition of my ‘posts of the year’, as was the case in the 2012, my website has been dominated by NBN discussion. Yes I do write about the NBN quite a bit, but that these articles are so popular on my site shows just how important the NBN has become in […]

News Limited Seeks Excess Access To Your Social Media Accounts

With the News Limited mastheads moving to the “metered paywall” model for their online activities, I curiously checked out what sort of information they might want to sign-up as a registered user. I was a bit surprised. When signing up using your Twitter account, they want access to “read tweets from your timeline”, “see who […]

Taking News Limited Seriously?

Bill Shorten has copped a bit today – (rightly or wrongly) – about what has already become known as “PieGate”, where an alleged confrontation occurred in a shop over the availability of a meat pie. I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened. But should a major news outlet – (News Limited) – be declaring […]

The Australian FUDs It Again

There’s been a lot of rumbling, particularly since the 2010 Federal Election, in regards to a perceived media bias against the Australian Labor Party and its policies, particularly from Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited newspapers – most notably The Australian, our “national” paper. For me, their ongoing campaign, especially in the light of the News Of […]

Who Shot Osama?

Shortly after seeing this tweet this morning, I wandered outside from the systems engineering course I am attending this week, to get a quick gasp of fresh air, and saw precisely the same thing: It seems that News Limited and Fairfax have a slight difference of opinion on Australia’s position in the current world order!