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9:05AM Jess McGuire | Here at Defamer Australia, we’re massive fans of the way all the News Ltd sites valiantly attempt to bang up a vaguely appropriate gallery of photographs when reporting on any story. Generally it’s a fabulous excuse to look at pictures of Krystal Forscutt’s mad cans, and thousands of men too stupid to Google Image search her name must be thanking their lucky stars on a regular basis. But guess what? I’ve found what can only be described as the greatest news.com.au gallery ever created. More »
The Best News Ltd Gallery You’ll Ever See
9:05AM Jess McGuire | Here at Defamer Australia, we’re massive fans of the way all the News Ltd sites valiantly attempt to bang up a vaguely appropriate gallery of photographs when reporting on any story. Generally it’s a fabulous excuse to look at pictures of Krystal Forscutt’s mad cans, and thousands of men too stupid to Google Image search her name must be thanking their lucky stars on a regular basis. But guess what? I’ve found what can only be described as the greatest news.com.au gallery ever created. More » 
Small Screen
4:30PM Jess McGuire | Dear news.com.au,
Yesterday you asked me a question and I forgot to answer it. Let me address your query now. More »
An Open Letter To news.com.au
4:30PM Jess McGuire | Dear news.com.au,
Yesterday you asked me a question and I forgot to answer it. Let me address your query now. More »
People
8:14AM Jess McGuire | I think I may have stumbled over the greatest news article ever written. Admittedly, it’s not the first time I’ve said that about something I’ve read during the past week, but what can you do when the papers keep delivering non-stop awesome journalism, you feel me? More »
Extremely Important News Story, Must Read ASAP!!!
8:14AM Jess McGuire | I think I may have stumbled over the greatest news article ever written. Admittedly, it’s not the first time I’ve said that about something I’ve read during the past week, but what can you do when the papers keep delivering non-stop awesome journalism, you feel me? More »
Small Screen
1:01PM Jess McGuire | Today’s article in the Daily Telegraph which suggests MTV VJ Ruby Rose is secretly hooking up with a male model named Didier Cohen is rather amazing even by News Ltd standards. More »
Is Ruby Rose Dating A Male Model?
1:01PM Jess McGuire | Today’s article in the Daily Telegraph which suggests MTV VJ Ruby Rose is secretly hooking up with a male model named Didier Cohen is rather amazing even by News Ltd standards. More » The Courier-Mail’s Website Dominates Brisbanetimes.com.au
2:03PM Jess McGuire | When it comes to Queensland-based news websites, there appears to be only one major player. The website for the Courier-Mail has seen its hits go through the roof, leaving its rival – Fairfax’s brisbanetimes.com.au – for dust.
From the MediaWeek newsletter today:
The Courier-Mail’s website couriermail.com.au has soared to record traffic levels, confirming its position as the most popular news website in Queensland and one of the fastest growing in Australia, the Brisbane daily noted this week.
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From The ‘What On Earth Does This Mean’ Files…
11:45AM Jess McGuire | I was taking a look at the Perth Confidential website, and suddenly noticed in a little box excitingly labelled “YOU SAID IT!” which contained a comment from a reader which, as the site has bothered to highlight it for me, I’m assuming is considered quite the insight.
But I have NO IDEA what it means.
Is it code for something? I’m absolutely clueless, I’m afraid.
More » News Ltd Just Can’t Get Enough Of That Sweet, Sweet Untruth
2:37PM Clem Bastow | We were reading this story this afternoon, about a transgender man who reportedly kept his female sex organs and is now pregnant, and really marvelling at the wonderful fluidity of modern gender roles and relationships.
That was, until we got to the end of the piece and the “staff writers” had to go and stuff it all up with this clanger in the closing paragraph:
Mr Beatie doesn’t appear to be the first “pregnant” male. See the story of Mr Lee Mingwei who is apparently the first born male to give birth to a baby from his body.
“Apparently”! That’s a word those Walkley judges are really on the lookout for, isn’t it?
The thing is, if the News Ltd clowns had bothered to take the time to head over to urban legend and online hoax database Snopes, they would have found that Mr Lee Mingwei is to male pregnancy as “free c1al1s!” is to the hopes and dreams of flaccid systems engineers everywhere.
Go team! Keep on kicking them journalistic goals! More » 
Confidential’s Breathless ‘Sytycd’ Coverage Hampered By Laughable Knowledge Of Melbourne Drag History
9:10AM Clem Bastow | News Ltd’s Confidential, in this instance its Melbourne-based Herald Sun incarnation, love to think of themselves as the all-seeing, all-knowing orifice oracle of entertainment gossip, and get particularly excited about themselves when they think they’ve got the scoop.
So it was that they breathlessly started going on about So You Think You Can Dance Australia contestant Rhys and his apparent double life as a drag performer:
Melbourne’s Rhys Bobridge who made the cut on So You Can Think You Can Dance, has been slogging it out as a real-life Priscilla.
Bobridge, whose drag queen alias is Zowie Knox, has been working at Prahran’s Market Hotel in Commercial Rd for seven years.
As well as doing drag, Bobridge, 26, was a regular dancer at the pub for its mid-morning shows.
Isn’t that camp?!
What a pity, then, that Confidential haven’t done a jot of research.
Zowie Knox is indeed a well-loved drag superstar and show producer who did the hard yards on the live circuit… in the mid-’90s.
Rhys’ alter ego is the beautiful and glamorous Miss Regime Dettol, as we hinted rather heavily when we got word that he’d made it to the Top 20, and as anyone who knows anything about Melbourne’s drag scene would be well aware.
As for describing Miss Dettol as a mere “Priscilla”, those gossip folk better wash their mouths out with soap and learn a thing or two about how to talk to a lady.
Then again, those hilarious gays and their make-up and spangles – they’re all the same, aren’t they Confidential? More » News.com.au’s ‘Most Clicked’ Stories Of 2007 Reveals Readers Uninterested In Politics, Want To Know About Aliens And Levitation
10:20AM Clem Bastow | Our favourite future Walkley Award-winning online news portal, News.com.au, has revealed the list of its 100 “most clicked” stories of 2007.
As you can imagine for a news source of such quality, it’s a serious affair, filled with tales of bravery, tragedy and innovation, scientific breakthroughs and touching stories of human interest.
Here are some of our favourites:
84. 11-year-old boy gave STD to young girls
72. Marcia Brady’s lesbian sex romp with TV sister
54. Britney Spears ’strips off in porn shop’
48. Live spider flushed from boy’s ear
45. Man murdered parents with axe for laughing at cat’s death
29. Chinese army harvesting body parts
18. Gingers extinct in 100 years say scientists
12. Mother beat shark with camera
11. Czech crash victim wakes up speaking English
6. Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession
5. Man levitates outside the Whitehouse
With a smorgasbord of riches such as the ones we’ve just quoted, it was quite disappointing to get to #1 and find that it was nothing more exciting than simply “Paris Hilton loses inheritance”.
However, it’s good to see that the sadly deceased Weekly World News is alive and well in the hearts and browsers of everyday Australians. More » 