DR MUMBO’S DIARY: Paris Hilton, old news and undead celebrities

Tim Burrowes

January 3, 2009 6:03

Respect to IT News who don’t let a little thing like a story being five years old get in the way of them posting it.

They’re reporting the decision by Ninemsn to close its chatrooms “to protect children”. It’s currently second story on their home page.

The only thing is, Ninemsn made the announcement in September 2003. Dr Spin suspects IT News will get their act together shortly and pull the story down, so there’s a screenshot on the right, just in case.

Just one of the clues is that the person quoted in the article is CEO Martin Hoffman, who left in 2006. Since then Nine MSN has been through two more CEOs – Tony Faure and now Joe Pollard.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Ashley Ringrose 4 Jan 09

heheh so sad. The dragonns thing cracks me up.

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