Lara Bingle and the right to privacy
Model Lara Bingle is suing footballer Brendan Fevola over his alleged distribution of a revealing photograph.
The snap shows Bingle in the shower, clearly unhappy about having her picture taken.
It’s been confirmed the pair shared a brief relationship three years ago when Bingle was 19 and while Fevola was already married.
According to Wikipedia, Bingle was born on June 5, 1987 in the delightfully named Yowie Bay and is “best known for appearing on Fingal Spit in the controversial 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign So where the bloody hell are you?”
Bingle is no stranger to legal action.
In May 2006, she sued EMAP Australia, who allegedly published photographs of the model without her permission in Zoo Weekly. (more…)
Zoo Weekly features editor
Zoo Weekly is looking for a features editor.
I check out the online job ads every couple of weeks. A mentor once recommended the practice “so you can find out if your job has been advertised”.
In the dog-eat-dog newspaper world it seemed like good advice. Plus you get to know the industry gossip of who’s been given the flick, who’s moved on, etc.
The advert on Seek says:
“Zoo Weekly, Australia’s biggest selling men’s magazine is looking for a talented Features Editor.
The successful candidate will understand exactly what makes young blokes in Australia tick, and be able to turn around sparkling copy at breathless speed. An ability to write with humour is essential.
A working knowledge of pop culture would be an advantage, as would experience on a magazine. Apply with full CV and five ideas you think would make Zoo even better.”
Search for “Zoo magazine” on Google and it comes up as the first result. The description listed under the title reads: “Weird, magazine, sick, entertainment, girls, football, lists, zoo, weekly, jokes, snapshots, banter, quizzes, games.”
Those descriptions are normally chosen by the webmaster through meta tags. In this case it gives an interesting summary of how the Zoo people see themselves. (more…)
Live tennis coverage
Visit www.borderwatch.com.au/tennis for live coverage of the Mount Gambier Women’s Tennis International final between Alicia Molik (AUS) and Sacha Jones (NZ). Coverage starts at 02.30 GMT on Sunday.
Reporting suicide
Reporting suicide is a virtual taboo in the Australian media. Authorities are reluctant to divulge information or comment on suicide cases.
Pressure comes to bear on journalists and editors to not report suicides at all, presumably out of a copycat fear.
The hostility from health agencies toward media reporting of suicides has gone too far in my opinion, beyond even the guidelines recommended by the mindframe project.
These guidelines, which are apparently given to university students, suggest being non-specific about method, which is fair enough.
The Geelong Advertiser came in for some stick recently when it reported the fourth suicide within a year by students at the same local high school. I believe the paper was justified in highlighting the problem. (more…)
Privacy and the right to reply
I sometimes believe I have too many websites. If I aggregated all my content here it would be a much bigger site.
I try to differentiate between professional posts and personal ones, political stuff and general, long articles and short, etc.
Anyhow, I don’t often cross-link between them.
On this occasion, I invite readers here to view my article on “Privacy and the right to reply”.
Federal Budget
I covered my first Federal Budget as a reporter tonight. Other papers I’ve worked at always had press deadlines that were too early.
My coverage was still limited by time however, also isolation.
Major newspapers are able to send reporters to Canberra where they go into a “lockup” at 4pm.
That gives them restricted access to the budget papers and media statements until the Treasurer’s speech.
They can start writing articles and they can file immediately after the speech at 7.30pm EST. (more…)
Cutting edge humor
There was an advertisement in The Border Watch recently for a doctor who performs circumcisions.
Surprised by this, a reporter spoke to him and it turns out he gets lots of enquiries from country people since the South Australian Government banned circumcisions in public hospitals.
I wasn’t aware of the ban, having lived in Western Australia until May last year and Victoria before that.
Apparently the government considers circumcision “cosmetic” surgery and wanted to save beds. (more…)
