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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brands-have-become-our-new-moral-arbiters/ It’s not often you hear an apology from a big corporation that sounds like it really means it, but Jenny Craig’s statement last night that it “badly misjudged public perception of Kyle Sandilands” sounds genuine enough - perhaps because it’s so bloody obvious. Hmmm, brand heavily skewed towards women with body issues, linked to the “fat slag” king, what could possibly go wrong? The language marketing departments use when one of the stars they throw millions of dollars at to flog their products step out of line, is often at best hilarious, at worst mealy-mouthed. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brands-have-become-our-new-moral-arbiters/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/brands-have-become-our-new-moral-arbiters/#item7542 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-beauty-of-a-spin-free-media-interview/ In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-beauty-of-a-spin-free-media-interview/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-beauty-of-a-spin-free-media-interview/#item7474 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/A-letter-to-the-schoolyard-bully-who-never-grew-up/ Dear Kyle, I just want to let you know that I feel sorry for you, mate. I really do. I think people are too rough on you. Lots of people say that you have no talent, but I think you do. I’ve never listened to your show (except for those times that you’ve been played back on Media Watch), but I know that hosting a radio show does take skill, and you have certainly done that for quite some time. For that reason alone I hope that everyone goes a bit easier on you in the future. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/A-letter-to-the-schoolyard-bully-who-never-grew-up/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/A-letter-to-the-schoolyard-bully-who-never-grew-up/#item7228 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/ Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/#item7222 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/ Kyle Sandilands is a genius. An absolute, out and out Einstein. The 40 year old broadcaster has no talent, no decorum, no personality, no looks, no style, no charm and no knowledge of anything outside the vast universe that is his ego. Yet the guy is hugely successful. I have rarely listened to Kyle Sandilands on the radio, nor indeed watched the talent shows on which he is a judge. That’s not snobbery. It’s just how it is. But just as you didn’t need to read Eat Pray Love to know it was bag of fertiliser-grade horse manure, you don’t need to listen to Kyle to know his shows are rubbish. And that, right there, is the proof that he’s so damn clever. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-kyle-sandilands-australias-smartest-man/#item6429 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Triple-J-loves-Aussie-music-but-loves-ratings-more/ “We love Australian Music” is Triple J’s tag line, but do they? Really?? Or do they love it in the way that drunk guys tell random girls at clubs in the wee hours of Sunday morning?  Take Triple J’s “all Australian” music program “Home & Hosed” for example. The show features up and coming and known Australian bands who perhaps wouldn’t get any airtime on any other station..  At first blush this sounds like a badge of pride. But when it’s put into perspective, it’s less impressive. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Triple-J-loves-Aussie-music-but-loves-ratings-more/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Triple-J-loves-Aussie-music-but-loves-ratings-more/#item5745 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/editorial-content-should-not-be-up-for-sale/ This column is proudly brought to you by BMW. Or Mercedes Benz. Or Holden (if I’m desperate). Advertising and editorial – traditionally uneasy bedfellows – are having uninhibited sex at the moment. Instead of protesting, we media sluts have joined the orgy, legs in the air like frozen chooks (from Steggles, of course – Steggles for quality). How long before we see newspaper stories headlined, “Tony Abbott surges ahead in the polls” (sponsored by Nutri-Grain – Iron Man Food). feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/editorial-content-should-not-be-up-for-sale/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/editorial-content-should-not-be-up-for-sale/#item3265 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Has-radio-killed-the-radio-stars/ “She doesn’t do radio interviews… she says it’s a dead medium”. A recent conversation with a publicist about an American starlet nearly knocked me for six. According to the publicist the said starlet wasn’t going to waste her time on radio, because she simply didn’t believe anyone would be listening. While it came as a surprise to me, it wasn’t the first time I’d heard it – particularly from an American.  In the US, radio has really struggled in the wake of internet broadcasting. As listeners switch off in droves, programmers have been forced to look for new ways to reach out to their audience. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Has-radio-killed-the-radio-stars/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Has-radio-killed-the-radio-stars/#item1644 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-kyle-says-about-the-death-of-civility/ A radio personality returned to the air this week after time out to recover from an unfortunate incident arising from a social disability before now not previously categorised – he is, I have concluded from the incident and his lack of remorse, ‘civically challenged’. The ‘civically challenged’ person is so self-absorbed or insensitive as to be oblivious to the social and cultural impact of his or others’ egotistical or crass behaviour. He or she behaves in a way that weakens civic virtue and sensibility. A pattern of such behaviour can desensitise others to the harm being done, normalising what in a moment of shared reflection would obviously be deemed unedifying at best.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-kyle-says-about-the-death-of-civility/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-kyle-says-about-the-death-of-civility/#item1324 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/ Just a few years ago I ended up in Warsaw on a business trip to Poland where my former boss Eric Dodd had been invited to talk to top government officials about reforms to Poland’s embryonic private health system. As a journo and an amateur student of history, I was astonished to learn that our hotel in Warsaw was located on what was previously the Jewish Ghetto in World War II from which tends of thousands were shipped to their deaths. And just a matter of a few hours drive away was the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews and gypsies were imprisoned in the most horrific conditions and slaughtered in the gas chambers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#item1166 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 In the era of The Real Julia, a cricket captain entrapped by media trainers and wall-to-wall corporate spokespeople, you don’t hear many bullshit-free interviews. As a little summer refreshment, listen to this chat this morning on ABC Radio 702 with Rick Parsons from North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club. Last night there was a SHARK ATTACK! on his beach. Thankfully the 28-year-old surfer who was bitten on the arm is ok, but standard precautions were this morning carried out, including closing the beach and helicopter patrols. Mr Parsons sounds like the sort of bloke you want around in a crisis. Crisis? What crisis?