ICYMI in last week's
#WeeklyBeast, the Courier Mail photoshopped Tony Burke out of a photo with the Iranian women's football team players, and still told readers it was a photo from the "Department of Home Affairs". But they did leave his elbow behind.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/disappearing-act-tony-burke-erased-from-courier-mail-as-news-corp-tabloid-alters-image?utm_medium=d_socialIt's the last
#WeeklyBeast of 2025! Get it now. Leading on: SCA has been investigating whether its introduction of AI-assisted radio news led to a reporter being mistakenly named – in multiple bulletins across different radio stations – as an alleged violent offender
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/12/ai-wrongfully-names-reporter-abc-crime-podcast?utm_medium=d_social
AI the main suspect after radio stations wrongly identify reporter as alleged violent offender
Southern Cross Austereo investigate how Adelaide Advertiser journalist was wrongly named. Plus: awkward timing for ABC crime podcast
Just 15 people signed Pete Hegseth's demand requiring Pentagon journalists to pledge to only report authorised material. One of them was the correspondent for The Australian newspaper.
After questions from the Washington Post and the Guardian, The Oz backflipped: "we have revoked our assent". It's Amanda Meade's #WeeklyBeast 😙🔥https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2025/oct/17/australian-newspaper-backflips-pete-hegseth-pentagon-reporting-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules
News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper
It's
@meadea 's
#WeeklyBeast! Sky News Australia parrots Trump-inspired gender question after word from ‘the big boss’. Plus: Newsmax comes to Australia, caller goes on an anti-Arab tirade on 3AW, SMH goes West with Parra bureau, Creighton to IPA and more!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/sky-news-australia-parrots-trump-inspired-gender-question-after-word-from-the-big-boss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherSky News Australia parrots Trump-inspired gender question after word from ‘the big boss’
Did Sky Australia chief Paul Whittaker direct the questions about gender recognition? Plus: Nine plugs an expired podcast
lol. DT: very excited about the very unlikely possibility (EXCLUSIVE) that Charles might attend the races 🏇
SMH: from "horse face" to "Britain's grandmother" 🐴
It's Amanda Meade's
#WeeklyBeast!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/horsing-around-king-charles-visit-gets-hearts-racing-at-news-corp-but-smh-falls-short-of-royal-treatmentHorsing around: King Charles’ visit gets hearts racing at News Corp but SMH falls short of royal treatment
Daily Telegraph talks up chances Charles will attend the Everest. Plus: ABC splashes cash on redesign
ICYMI, according to News Corp CEO that headline comparing Greens leader Adam Bandt to Adolf Hitler is just the media doing its job, which he says is to “surface differing opinions”.
In @meadea's #WeeklyBeast https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/21/news-corp-boss-grilled-over-hitler-bandt-headline-as-seven-admits-failure-over-lehrmanns-rent
News Corp boss grilled over Hitler-Bandt headline as Seven admits failure over Lehrmann’s rent
The Australian was just surfacing ‘differing opinions’ when it made comparison between Greens leader and Hitler, Michael Miller says. Plus: fourth-generation Murdoch logs on
ICYMI last Friday, Amanda Meade's #WeeklyBeast was😙🤌
😱 Laura Tingle can't say that! Australia is not RACIST! I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
But also, Australia is so racist😡there's an "explosion in racism" and politicians must do more! Says a teary Sharri Markson https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/31/as-news-corp-rages-over-laura-tingle-sharri-markson-bewails-an-explosion-of-racism-across-australia#not-racist-but-also-very-racist
As News Corp rages over Laura Tingle, Sharri Markson bewails an ‘explosion of racism’ across Australia
Murdoch’s empire down under has been quietly reorganised – with a long, slow cull of journalists expected to follow
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#WeeklyBeast from Amanda Meade. Includes TheOz claiming to have a bigger readership than both SMH & Age 🤔 They have less than half the readers & are lucky to be in top 20 Ipsos news website rankings.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/news-corp-editors-try-to-impress-as-rebekah-brooks-and-lachlan-murdoch-land-in-sydneyNews Corp editors try to impress as Rebekah Brooks and Lachlan Murdoch land in Sydney
The editor-in-chief of the Australian rolls out questionable readership figures and plugs for its new true crime podcast. Plus: Seven news boss rallies the troops
Feelgood story turns bad as Sky humiliates Indigenous teenager who caught $1m barramundi
Peter Stefanovic interview with teenager who won Northern Territory tourism competition turns sour. Plus: Daily Telegraph embraces Chat GPT
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