The press watchdog body has found that the Daily Telegraph did not ensure that a story about transgender players in a volleyball competition was fair and balanced.
It was a well-known story for anyone who was attentive to reports of trans problems. Since 2019, there have been 12 awards on trans issues in several Australian publications, all but one of which have been found to be inaccurate, offensive and harmful or both.
“There has been an increase in awards on reports on transgender issues in recent times,” the Australian Press Council told Weekly Beast. “This is likely to reflect the growing awareness of the community about transgender issues and the higher profile of these issues in the media.”
The increase in figures does not include complaints about reports in Australian by the head of the gender clinic at Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, who said the newspaper published 45 articles about it.
A recent story on news.com.au included the caption: “The murder victim, Peter Aston, was beaten, shaved, tortured and buried alive” by Reid and his “lover of transgender soldiers.” The council said the story could lead some readers to conclude that there was “a connection between transgender status and the commission of the crime” and that making prominent reference to “the accomplice’s transgender status” contributed to substantial prejudice. .
The Herald Sun received a slap in the face for describing a defendant in a court story as “a transgender woman suffering from a personality disorder” and the Daily Mail for saying, “A 75-year-old serial killer wants you to pay for his sex change. surgery when he gets out of jail. “
In 2019, the same year, the council published advisory guidelines on information about people with sexual orientation, gender identity and diverse sexual characteristics, the Daily Tele said: “After being cut herself “a Sydney trans” at the center of another court case. “I supposedly wanted to share the experience.”
The guidelines advise that “unfair or inaccurate reporting of people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics and related issues … may have adverse health outcomes and detrimental implications.”
Foxtel enjoys Emmy nominations
Sarah Snook has received an Emmy nomination for her role as Shiv Roy on the HBO series Succession. Photography: Stephen Lovekin / Rex / Shutterstock
Foxtel is salivating positively about the number of Emmy nominations the pay-TV platform has received: “Foxtel celebrates more than 290 Emmy nominations,” he stated.
The company claims that “Foxtel content” has “more than 139 Emmy nominations this year,” including performance nominations for Australians Sarah Snook (Succession), Toni Collette (The Staircase) and Murray Bartlett (The White). Lotus).
Wait a minute. Did Foxtel commission, produce or fund Succession, The Staircase or The White Lotus? No, but Foxtel projected the shows, which seems to be enough to claim the loot. Success has many parents.
But if Foxtel’s content has 139 nominations, where do the other 151 nominations come from?
Foxtel has included nominations received by rival streaming platforms Netflix and Amazon Prime because … Foxtel decoders now give access to other streaming applications.
“Foxtel viewers can now enjoy more than 290 Emmy-nominated moments in one place thanks to the integration of Netflix, Amazon Prime, SBS and ABC iView applications into iQ3, iQ4 and iQ5 decoders.” Now this is a real stretch.
The real winner of the Emmy bets is HBO / HBO Max which had a total of 140 nominations, ahead of Netflix with 105.
Spin doctors change that
The Labor government is gradually filling its ranks with staff, hiring journalists from the press room, other government departments, or transferring them among Labor to form the necessary 470 posts.
Anthony Albanese’s long-term media adviser Matthew Franklin, who has been with Grayndler’s member for nine long years in opposition, told his friends he decided to resign after the election. Franklin, who was the Australian’s political reporter before jumping the fence, simply wants a break from the long hours.
Anthony Albanese with long-term media advisor Matthew Franklin (left) in 2015. Photo: Tracey Nearmy / AAP
Another journalist joins the Albanian office, former SBS international correspondent Brett Mason, who has been on Jim Chalmers’ team in opposition.
Western Australian federal political editor Lanai Scarr jumped directly from the election campaign to the staff of Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth, who offered her a job as a press secretary.
Former ABC and Sky News political journalist Lyndal Curtis has joined the staff of Infrastructure Minister Catherine King after a stint working for the Department of Parliamentary Services.
‘Stoker’s deception’
Former National Liberal Party senator Amanda Stoker has joined the Australian Financial Review this week with the first of a fortnightly column. The former deputy minister for women ranked third on the Coalition ticket in the Queensland Senate and was not elected.
Showing an admirable independent spirit, the Fin allowed Rear Window columnist Michael Roddan to sled Stoker’s first column the next day. Stoker had argued that the Coalition lost power because it yielded to “leftist positions” on “climate, gender, identity politics or culture.”
“Stoker’s excitement was deeper, however,” Roddan said, noting that his statement about “the highest individual support below any candidate’s line” was “a fallacy without glory. “.
Former National Liberal Party senator Amanda Stoker had her first column in the Australian Financial Review. Photography: Mike Bowers / The Guardian
Headline news
All newspaper publishers live in fear of picking up the next day’s edition with a clanger in the headline, and no media is immune, including the Guardian. But it was a particularly bad week for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.
On the front page of Saturday’s newspaper was a report on the assassination of the oldest Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, while inside was the headline: “Now is the time for Albanese, a small target man, to dare the snipers “.
After a shout, the online version was changed to “Now is the time for the Albanian, a small-minded man, to grow in height.”
Then there was the headline with an apostrophe out of place.
But it was the headline that stated that “violence against women” was an issue when the article actually dealt with violence against women that upset readers: “Plan to address violence against women on the agenda when ministers meet next week “.
Photography: Sydney Morning Herald
It was eventually changed to: “National Plan to End Violence Against Women on the Main Agenda.”
Dore defends the pet project
In April, the Australian launched a paid-walled youth website called The Oz, which is said to be a mascot project of the editor-in-chief of broadsheet Christopher Dore.
The Oz editor Elyse Popplewell has a rough summary, mostly because she was catapulted from the relatively younger position of social media editor to editor of The Oz, a section with about 10 employees.
The Oz hopes to attract young readers willing to pay $ 8.99 a month to access the content, a huge demand for a generation accustomed to getting free content online.
Internally, there are complaints about the amount of resources the section has when staff spread out over the paper and claim subscriptions and traffic are serious.
On Instagram and TikTok, where The Oz addresses its audience, many posts are lucky enough to get a handful of likes.
But Dore is determined and tells Weekly Beast: “For a new brand, The Oz has already created a strong, loyal and growing audience on all platforms. Audience growth is exceptional, well above expectations. .
“Similarly, The Oz subscription numbers are already fantastic and growing faster than I imagined. The Oz has more subscribers than any other news site (all of them combined in fact) that purports to serve a similar audience. .
“Our young and very talented team is posting brilliant content and creating a great audience. I am very proud of them and the innovative site they are creating.”
Questionable questions
With all the strength and resources at your disposal News Corp Australia, where do you think he proceeded to the test questions that fill the last pages of the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph?
Lifting them, without attribution or payment, from freelance writer and producer Miles Glaspole, who publishes popular daily questionnaires on his TikTok10 account.
“I have a TikTok channel,” Glaspole told Weekly Beast. “Basically just asking 10 quick questions a day. People can react to it, duet and all that kind of stuff.
“Yesterday I was tagged in a video by a user who was doing the Daily Telegraph puzzle page. And all the questions were from my quiz … just word for word my questions.”
News Corp has admitted that questions from the latest puzzles to the tabloids were plagiarized, but has blamed an outside vendor.
“The concern has been passed on to our external provider for investigation,” a spokesman told us.
Glaspole, which has an impressive 615.6 thousand followers and 35.6 million likes on TikTok, says it doesn’t want compensation, but urged the media giant to pay a dime for a skilled question writer.
“It’s a very difficult time for creatives, especially for writers,” he said. “Most people who work on writing quizzes, whether it’s pub curiosities or TV shows or anything like it, are usually self-employed and can’t make a living from it.”
You can buy Miles a coffee for the cost of the Daily Tele or the Hun if you think it deserves compensation.