http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/di-butler/ Dianne Butler is a Brisbane based journalist who writes a deeply shallow daily television column for The Courier-Mail. Before that she was a reporter on Confidential, before that … well, who cares, it was a very long time ago. She continues to make regular fairly unmemorable appearances on radio and television. She has never been the editor of anything, but she was once scolded by Tommy Lee Jones at a press conference for using the word irk. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sunday-night-TV-ratings-battle/ You can just never tell where the next hit is going to come from. And I’m not talking about Tuppence Moran either. Although, now that you mention it, do you think Nine arranged that? For Underbelly reasons? Just kidding! Nine hasn’t got that kind of money anymore! No, I mean Random Acts of Kindness. What an emotional show. Understandably. I’m pretty sure I’d cry too if somebody gave me a horse float. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Di Butler) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sunday-night-TV-ratings-battle/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sunday-night-TV-ratings-battle/#item421 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:45:20 +0000 Di Butler | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aca-abandoned-journalism-to-suck-up-to-gordon/ I’ve always liked Tracy Grimshaw. She seems very nice. She does this thing sometimes with her eyes when she’s saying good night at the end of the show, it’s a little squint, it’s like she’s trying to make friends with an animal. She’s into horses, and I’ve often wondered if hers watch her when she’s on, if they hear her voice and immediately start paying attention to the television, so that’s why she gives her reassuring blinking message. Unless they don’t watch A Current Affair. Horses are very smart. So I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when Tracy said she’d agreed in advance not to ask Gordon Ramsay anything about his marriage, and whether he’d been shagging that other woman behind his wife’s back for all those years, meeting in hotels and sneaking around. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Di Butler) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aca-abandoned-journalism-to-suck-up-to-gordon/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aca-abandoned-journalism-to-suck-up-to-gordon/#item318 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:33:41 +0000 Di Butler | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/thanks-kev-but-ill-decide-if-im-disgusted-or-not/ I wasn’t upset when Princess Diana died. I didn’t know her, never met her, thought she seemed like a bit of a dill. Sad for her family but that’s life isn’t it. One day it’s all going to end. Hopefully not naked in a cupboard in Bangkok like David Carradine but you just don’t know. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Di Butler) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/thanks-kev-but-ill-decide-if-im-disgusted-or-not/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/thanks-kev-but-ill-decide-if-im-disgusted-or-not/#item243 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:50:56 +0000 Di Butler | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/stage-managed-Boyle-over-susan-boyle-nervous-collapse/ Let me see if I’ve got this straight: a group of children resembling the cast of Oliver! win the final of Britain’s Got Talent and the cash money prize of 100,000 pounds to share among themselves, Susan Boyle comes second and gets a trip to a luxury celebrity hang-out. Even converting it to the much larger sounding amount of $202, 439 Australian dollars, those kids are in line to walk away with an estimated $27.50 each. Meanwhile, Susan Boyle, who has either reached Boyle-ing Point or had a Boyle-Over,  is ensconced, possibly with notorious loser Rafael Nadal, in the exceedingly glamorous Priory Clinic in London, the first port of call for “exhausted” stars. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Di Butler) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/stage-managed-Boyle-over-susan-boyle-nervous-collapse/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/stage-managed-Boyle-over-susan-boyle-nervous-collapse/#item184 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:37:04 +0000 Di Butler | Author bios | The Punch