Digest: Goodbye to a great; Countdown to 7pm Project; TED in Sydney; Canning versus Scientology

Last Monday, the media and marketing sections of our national newspapers were so moribund that writing a digest seemed cruel and unusual, not so much for the reader, but for me having to do it. So I didn’t.  

But sometimes you’ve got to make sacrifices (and a couple of people did mention that they missed it), so let’s get back on the horse, starting with The Oz’s media section.

And it’s good to see the paper give extensive space to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the death of US news great Walter Cronkite.

But mostly, it’s about telly today. The Oz reports on this week’s arrival of three big shows supposed to make us laugh. The biggest investment (of airtime, at the very least) is Ten’s new 7PM Project, which kicks off tonight and will run daily. But also coming are sketch show Double Take and TV Burp, which both debut on Seven on Thursday night.