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I know you hope to have moved on from bagging The West, but have you seen that TV ad for ‘The New West Weekend.’? it’s ghastly.
I am not sure what is new about the weekend paper, since it seems to be the same people doing the same things. Maybe they are arranged in a different order, or have a thrilling new masthead.
The ad shows West journos wearing too much make-up, sitting on a series of big cut-out letters that spell out the newspaper, and pretending that we are all going to hang out together at the weekend like the cast of ‘Friends’. Thankfully Nurry and Castlearse are not there: they have concentrated on the young, good-looking staff, and Rob Broadfield.
it’s bad enough that they make me yell expletives at the newspaper, now they have me shouting at the telly.
since when do newspapers need to advertise on the TV? A television advert begging you to buy two hundred pages of print ads
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Since John Patrick Alford took a majority shareholding in WA News.
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You mean this ad ? :-)
http://d.yimg.com/nl/australia/au-news/player.swf
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Bugger the embedding didn’t work – just go to The Worst’s Website.
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Finally saw teh West TV ad last night Skink.
Headline on the copy of the paper in tv ad: The Boom is Back. Which explains why the West Weekend section is becoming thinner & more vapid & the ads & Real Estate sections heavier.
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And Inside Cover says they will no longer have room for the caption competition. So the paper is supposed to last 2 days but they have less space.
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does anybody have a link to said ad?
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try this:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/8200865
there is a video box
as I suggested, the ‘New Weekend West’ is just a new masthead and rehashed graphics.
I assume this means that they realized how lame ‘The Agenda’ was, since the only agenda seemed to have been Zoltan’s war on mildly irritating infractions of grammar
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I just realized that they have nicked the new masthead ‘The Weekend West’ from your very own ‘Weekend Worst’
there was a great story yesterday about the Hell’s Angels suing various fashion designers for appropriating their patch logo, stating that it was ‘causing irreparable harm to their reputation’ to have metrosexuals mincing around in their gear.
I think you should take action against the newspaper. They are devaluing your brand, dude
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I hope that means there’ll also be an irrational hatreds section. Oh wait, there’s already the letters to the editor.
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Andrew Crook writes in Crikey today that the new Weekend West is a pre-emptive strike in a Perth ‘newspaper war’
The Sunday Times is going to be published on a Saturday so it can compete for the real-estate market
let’s see if we can notice any improvement in the quality of either
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If they’re both a lot thinner that might be better?
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it can’t be a war without casualties
let’s hope some of the old-timers get caught in the crossfire
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Maybe Sunday Times will retaliate by bringing back Bennett’s Beat?
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apparently there’s a whole weekend’s reading in the saturday edition.
if you like a 15 minute weekend.
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awr carn mate got work to do n the kidsa got foodie (footy, but either works right?)
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All this is a distaction from the real issue: Are we going to Trade Mark ‘Hatemongering Morons’?
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oh, I intend to
and why use a horrible American neologism like ‘hyperlocal’, with its ugly mix of Greek and Latin roots, when a perfectly good word already exists: ‘parochial’
it gives you the opportunity to alliterate it with ‘pissant’
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Photographic habit – sounds like hyperfocal ?
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Or worse …
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What a cunt
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& rurotards
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Here’s the text version of Annabel Crabb’s excellent AN Smith lecture in journalism, which she delivered tonight at Melbourne Uni.
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excellent
bravo for admitting that her main love of twitter was for crowdsourcing content
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That is the first time that I have fully read any of her stuff.
I saw her on the ‘Gruen Transfer’ and was quite impressed, but this takes her another step up the ladder of my world weary perspective.
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Marvellous stuff.
The Crabbster was a hit at last year’s Walkleys.
Hopefully she will do it again in December.
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My only response to a Crabbfest ; http://andrewelder.blogspot.com/
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Mr Denmore has other ideas on Crabby Annabel – whose unhealthy obsession with one A Abbott should set Alarm Bells ringing !!!
http://thefailedestate.blogspot.com/2010/10/trust-never-sleeps.html?spref=tw
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You’re not italian
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A sports reporter from Germany has been hit in the head by footballs in public TWELVE TIMES!. No seriously one player said sorry and gave her flowers but the other players didn’t. You really think she’d consentrate and watch herself the crazy idiot!.
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I hope to see much more of you in 2011 legend. Take a pic and do a guest post.
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