Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) * JOHN HARTIGAN'S bold move, as Australian News Limited chief, to give the multi-million dollar go-ahead to free afternoon tabloid commuter newspapers in Melbourne and possibly Sydney, is a stunning commercial attack against rival John Fairfax Holdings, and ......more...Oil keeps Australia in Iraq (The Scotsman) AUSTRALIA'S defence minister has said that oil is one of his country's motivations for keeping its troops in Iraq....more... Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) Expressed Monday Mornings to more than 6000 Media Decision Makers. Confidential Weekly E-Newspaper....more... Crikey Daily Email (Crikey) It may be time to redefine the central debate in Australian public life. Time to redraft the traditional lines of engagement. In reporting the results of the 2006 Census, today's edition of The Australian plucks the following figures:...more... Media Watch does 'Alan Everywhere' (Crikey) Media Watch last night broadcast a worthwhile examination of business journalism commentary in Australia and the potential for conflicts of interest between television presenters, their private interests, sponsors and advertisers....more... Super size me (The Age) It's the hottest game in town: radical changes to superannuation have generated a flood of funds. Max Newnham explores whether you should plunge in, too....more... Pre-Cancerous Blood Diseases Can Be Products Of Their Environment (Medical News Today) When blood-forming stem cells misbehave, causing pre-cancerous conditions that can sometimes even progress to leukemia, the problem might not always lie with them. Rather, two studies in the journal Cell, published by Cell Press, reveal that a bad environment might be to blame. [click link for full article]...more... First video game banned in Britain puts player in role of sadistic killer (Times Online) A video game that puts players in control of a psychopath who must sneak up on people and bludgeon them to death with axes and sledgehammers has been banned in Britain....more... Why we must break with the American crazies (Times Online) When Gordon Brown returned from his fact-finding tour of Iraq on Monday, he proclaimed the importance of learning from our mistakes but also of looking forward instead of backward. Did this admission hint at a shift in Britain?s foreign policy when Mr Brown takes over in ten days? time?...more... |