Category Archives: worst newspaper

In the heat of the bong

Posted on April 17, 2013 by AHC McDonald

Skink sent me this a while ago, but I hadn’t really appreciated the pure worstness. Margaret River cops, fresh from confiscating orange juice bottle bongs from unwashed ferals are to be travelling to CIA headquarters to learn learn to go … Continue reading →

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new Perth suburb!

Posted on March 28, 2013 by rottobloggo

It’s not only the Flangemaster having trouble with place names. Bento has stirred from his Juliet balcony: “Where is Cambridge? Is it near Willeton? Columbia? Amarilo?” Yes, Cambridge. A leafy western something.

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urban sprawl gone mad

Posted on March 22, 2013 by rottobloggo

“It was only a matter of time before Geraldton came to be considered part of the metropolitan area,” Bento says. He can’t Bear it!

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stone the crows

Posted on March 12, 2013 by rottobloggo

Our very good friends at The Echo are in the TWoP news again. These long names are tricky, I know, but it should be Castledine, not Casteldine. If only The Echo spent as many hours checking names as Ms Castledine … Continue reading →

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Outrage Sunday 90

Posted on March 3, 2013 by rottobloggo

More apologies for an OS lite. This week’s excuse: IT on the blink. This Echo stand delighted me. Unnecessary quotation marks and redundant language. As I rushed to the scene of the crime I was hoping they had got independent … Continue reading →

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crash carnage

Posted on February 7, 2013 by rottobloggo

Struth Ruth! Hundreds dead in first 38 days of the year! I know Teh Pert drivers have trouble with merging, but this WAToady head was alarming…until I clicked and read this: “Western Australia’s road deaths in the first 37 days … Continue reading →

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the best and the worst

Posted on January 30, 2013 by rottobloggo

A double-page spread of art in today’s West! But there is a downside: the Flangemaster and skink say their pics appear in the report, without attribution. Perhaps there is some mistake: I can’t imagine a news behemoth like The West … Continue reading →

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crash blossom

Posted on January 23, 2013 by rottobloggo

“Risible attempt at punning by the West’s online headline writers,” Bento fumes. “They do realise a novel is a very specific type of fictional book, don’t they?”

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amused but confused

Posted on January 21, 2013 by rottobloggo

Golden Rule #8 for young reporters: read the archives before you file. That might have saved Inside Cover in today’s West some egg on face. The reporter is “amused but confused” by a strange boat on the Swan earlier this … Continue reading →

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the inmates can’t wait

Posted on January 18, 2013 by rottobloggo

Thanks Johnny Charlie.

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