Breaking news: Sun comes up on time

Plenty of bloggers bag the News Ltd media for grovelling to John Howard’s mob while deliberately undermining federal Labor. I’ve never joined in, not through any love of News Ltd, but because I gave up reading any of their crappy newspapers many years ago. When I first moved up to the NSW/Queensland border region I started buying the Courier Mail but quickly realised its main editorial stance was “Wah! Those slimeballs from down south are being mean to us again!!” and quit. Childishness is annoying enough without having to pay for it.

Nevertheless it’s impossible to avoid News stories on Yahoo and this morning’s is a beauty:

Rudd like other Labor failures: Howard

The headline’s not misleading: that’s what the story in The Australian is all about. John bleedin’ Howard doesn’t think Kevin Rudd is doing much of a job as opposition leader. We’ve all been waiting for the Great Man to tell us what to think and now we know. Thank you thank you News Ltd.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s super-scoop exclusive in The Australian: Labor sucks: Howard

Who said investigative reporting was dead?