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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 25, 2008
I suffered something approaching an existential crisis this week when my Facebook account was suspended. I’m not kidding you, Gentle Reader. Suspended, I might add, without reason. So in addition to feeling as though …
Also tagged: social networking, facebook, the net, elmo keep
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 10, 2008
One of the great troupes of English travellers who swarmed through the Orient in the 18th century included Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Lady Mary’s Turkish Letters present her impressions of a flying visit to the Ottoman …
Also tagged: iraq, blogs, media, featured, al qaeda, surge, cucumbers, helen pringle
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 3, 2008
With the Beijing Olympics now a distant memory — and commentators wondering whether the event will herald greater openness in the Communist nation — local internet users are already reporting increased online …
Also tagged: blogging, china, bloggers, iran, russia, featured, georgia, antony loewenstein
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 29, 2008
With in the space of a few years, two of the bastions of Australian media - Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Fairfax Media - have been humbled by the vicissitudes of corporate fate. Both companies once dominated …
Also tagged: media, strike, hero, job cuts, fairfax, fairfax walkout
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 28, 2008
Let’s divulge a lurking prejudice from the get-go, shall we? Your reporter has been shamelessly charmed and as such has little but girlish waffle to impart. read more
Also tagged: interview, featured, augusten burroughs, helen razer, melbourne writers festival
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 24, 2008
As any decent PR hack will tell you, if you want to get your brand all over the media without too much effort, just release a report on a touchy subject that says exactly what you want it to say. read more
Also tagged: media, hero, housing, banks, quality of life, ben eltham, bankwest
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 18, 2008
It seems that published criticism in Australia has a value and a vigour roughly equivalent to that of flat-pack furniture. Apparently, it’s all falling down. In recent news: The merit of our public thinkers has …
Also tagged: music, arts and culture, criticism, australian culture, helen razer
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 13, 2008
Six years ago, I met an elderly Englishman named Bill Porter who was wandering the world trying to resurrect public values in journalism. read more
Also tagged: media, journalism, torture, ethics, martin flanagan
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 11, 2008
Beijing has been tense in recent weeks; two buses blowing up in the southern provincial capital of Kunming on 21 July and an attack on border police in far west Xinjiang on 4 August did nothing to allay locals’ fears …
Also tagged: olympics, beijing, hero, beijing 2008, opening ceremony, 080808, dan edwards
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 10, 2008
"Our" Tamsyn Lewis has already lifted the lid on Johnny Foreigner’s attempt to swindle the Olympic Games, and maybe she has reason to be concerned. This week we round up all the drugs and masking agents competing for …
Also tagged: drugs, cocaine, olympics, beijing, martina hingis, cheat, blogwatch, tamsyn lewis, 080808