BotW: Sexist advertising is back, baby; Facebook can go on serving scam ads; The Unmade Index’s rotten week

Welcome to Best of the Week, written in Evandale, Tasmania, after a blissful week of zero interstate travel.

Happy Scrabble Day, for those who rebetacle.

It’s been an odd few days where it’s felt as though most of the industry is simply waiting for next week. Monday’s coming verdict on the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial has loomed large; Seven West Media had an awful week with a new expenses scandal to add to its woes. I can’t remember a media story where every person I spoke to in the industry spontaneously raised it in the way they’ve been doing this week.

Angry, incoherent messages to various journalists (including myself) from more than one of the network’s departing executives has added to the sense of a network in denial, even to itself. And that’s before the verdict.