Category: Media Related

On John Howard, LPG Cylinders and Hoax Emails – Part 1

Once upon a time, in the early days of the Internet, surfers implicitly “trusted”  information they found on the web - particularly information that appeared genuine, seemed like it had been properly referenced and sounded credible....

Weekend Reading – Served Differently

I am experimenting with a different reading format this weekend…dispensing with extracts…(and) instead letting you *pick and choose* from a few links on different topics… Pl. let me know what you think of this…As some of...

A good time to bury bad news…

Some of you may remember the scandal that rocked Tony Blair’s government in 2001 when one of his aides appeared to suggest that 9/11 offered a good opportunity to distract attention from “bad” news....

I Hate Bloggers*

*** Why I Hate Bloggers *** Reflections of a “mainstream” journalist/reporter They trawl the internet (and worse, google caches) to find words/reports/quotes from me that are either a] embarrassing and/or b] contradict my current position/actions and/or...

“And then they came for me” – Excerpts

Please read this searing piece by fearless Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga titled, “And then they came for me“.  Lasantha was shot dead last fortnight*.  Excerpts below: No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay...