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Glen - presenter

Interesting to note the discussion in the press today about news organisations and their attitude to and rules about online activities such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and the like. The Australian’s Media section details different media organisation’s approaches to what employees should and shouldn’t do and say online.
It comes after a Courier Mail staffer was sacked for criticising his paper online - apparently telling people you are bored dealing with such schlock can get you in big trouble.

The BBC says ” audiences should not be able to tell from BBC programs or other BBC output the personal prejudices of our journalists and presenters…This applies as much to online content as it does to news bulletins. Nothing should be written by journalists and presenters that would not be said on air.”

The New York Times says ‘don’t editorialise if you work for the news department’. Bloomberg says ‘news staff may not publish websites, blogs or other online journals that discuss companies, people or topics covered by Bloomberg News’.

Doesn’t leave much.

I think I’ll leave it there.

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Marius - politics

What do Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Christopher Pyne and Peter Dutton have in common?

Vaulting vanity…….rampant egotism…..wild self-belief…..hides like rhinos?

Well possibly. But what they definitely share is a taste in footwear.

All of the above match their regulation dark power suits with elastic-sided RM Williams riding boots.

This seems like an Australian variation on a recurring US theme. Every so often, when a President, Vice President or Congressman crosses his legs on camera, you can see the eye catching leather and stitching of cowboy boots below his well-tailored cuffs.

It is clearly a discreet expression of the Inner Man - statesman from the ankles up, but something quite different below.