Miranda’s Devine’s back – like she was never gone

Nobody reads the Tele unless its Sport or the front page. I thought the rest was just Piers Akerman and ads. Never actually looked.

Any evidence that she sells newspapers? Has the SMH seen a decline in readership (or more than you might expect in a dying medium?)

As a guess, she is there to support the liberal party, the editorial team can put it down to a columnists rants if it is hugely biased, the internet will find her out, if no-one can be bothered to find out what she has to say then she is sunk.

You don’t need to look Mat. It will be in the Herald the next day.

You have to admit that film was a little on the extreme side…..

A breath of fresh air at last, Go Miranda!
An interesting post from Joe Talcott, re, R.U. OK day.
Miranda was kind enough to do a story on the suicide of one of the many builders
who have committed suicide over Home Warranty insurance. (HWI)
20,000 out of 34,000 builders cannot get this useless Insurance, More on this,
Manly Daily front page 19th August 2010.
Victorian Essential Services Commission stats,$ 600 Million in income from HWI
$9.1 Million paid out in claims, NSW stats expected to be the same,(not available).
The Northern Hemisphere thaw /solstace resulted in no sea level rise,despite billions of tons of snow and ice melting, the world demands the truth, Miranda is supplying it.

Mat,

Whilst I accept that there is still a lot of blue-collar stuff in the Tele, including the wholly superfluous Form Guide, your anti-Tele comment reads like snobbery.

I don’t know if you’ve realised, but the Sydney Morning Herald has become a total ragsheet. Most readers are rusted on, and would be horrified at the mere thought of reading the Tele, yet base this perception on very old opinions. Give it another go – the Tele has more scoops and real hardball reporting than the Fairfax papers.

Worst case, if the Tele is still too hard, read The Australian, which is simply outstanding. Particularly the Cut and Paste section which shows when the Fairfax papers get it wrong. If you only read Fairfax, you’d never know.

ah, I am so relieved she has gone fromthe smh.

@Dan Lewis – pull the other leg, it jingles. The Tele is nothing more than a trumped up Womans Day crossed with the Liberal Party newsletter, that happens to have a sports section at the back. There is no balanced reporting, just fear mongering and sensationalist dross. It is written to a year 9 reading level for a reason – its target audience are the uneducated and easily influenced. I am not saying Fairfax is the bastion of truth as it is clearly not, but any person with a semblance of functioning gray matter would scoff at you trying to defend such a steaming pile of turd. Nobody of any intellect or importance pays ANY attention to the Tele, it’s merely a comedic interlude after catching up on the news.

All you have done is publicly out yourself as part of the unwashed and uninformed.

I cannot tell you how relieved I am MD has gone from Fairfax. Her so called columns dragged down the quality of the paper. My fondest memory was her piece on how greens are going to have blood on their hands for attempting to prevent shark culling, pointing out “humans are water based creatures too you know – have you been to a beach on a summers day”, or words to that effect. I contacted Ms Devine a few times directly, my favorite there being her response to my email asking how could she quote a statistic that women “spend 2 hours a week in front of the mirror” as coming from the Australian Bureau of Statistics – a quick google search found it was from a Napoleon Perdis press release and had she had ripped the stat off a ‘story’ from West Australian newspaper “what’s the fascination with my articles – if you don’t like them, don’t read them”…

Hey Keith, when I want a bathroom renovated, I’ll talk to you. When I want to know what’s happening with the world’s climate, I think we’d prefer to hear from someone who actually knows a thing or two about climatology, oceanography etc. etc.