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AP’s Notes On Roman Polanski’s Arrest Leak Onto News Wires
4:30AM Foster Kamer | Will Roman Polanski be extradited? Is he a misunderstood artist, or a rapist who should rot? Questions! But none as interesting as how the AP’s notes for the story landed on the pages of Forbes and the New York Times. More »
One For Her Mum’s Wallet
2:45PM Clem Bastow | In case you’ve not noticed, all Australian online news outlets are currently going batshit crazy (official term) over the Olympics, which means they’re all busting their servers to bring us extensive multimedia coverage, and plugging it in every inch of spare space on their homepages. Which is annoying, until you get something hilarious like TheAge.com.au’s current link-through to their highlights presentation:
The poor lass remains un-captioned in the presentation (which features the sort of hilariously portentous music that even South Park’s Parker and Stone would probably think was too much), but amongst all the “OMG WIN!!!” coverage of Stephanie Rice et al, it’s nice to see some failure on the front page.
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