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THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2013.
BEHOLD THEIR CRAPULENCE: The Age sinks into an abyss of error and trivia
THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2013.
BEHOLD THEIR CRAPULENCE: The Age sinks into an abyss of error and trivia
By VEXNEWS ⋅ January 14, 2013
Most of Sunday, The Age’s website led with a rehashed story about the supposed retirement from music of Kylie Minogue, lifted from the London tabloid Sunday Mirror.
It says much about The Age’s digital strategy of click-baiting that it gave so much prominence to a story about Kylie’s retirement and an apparent bust-up with a long-time manager and that the story doesn’t withstand any scrutiny at all. Compare it with the far more sceptical and better-sourced report in News Limited’s sites.
The truth is that Kylie Minogue is currently recording an album (or whatever they’re called these digital days) that will be released this year, according to published reports. It will be her twelfth.
Contrary to the Mirror’s yarn and the The Age’s lifted version, her long-time manager Terry Blamey, around sixty-three years old and the Budgie appear to be on excellent terms, with Kylie lavishly singing his praises after the supposed business bust-up was meant to have occurred.
When The Age print edition dies, as it undoubtedly will soon, many will nostalgically mourn it, but the truth is that the quality those will eulogise mostly died many years ago.
Rehashing a London tab’s mostly false yarn about a singer as the day’s most prominent yarn, without bothering to verify a word of it is surely the final proof.
Most of Sunday, The Age’s website led with a rehashed story about the supposed retirement from music of Kylie Minogue, lifted from the London tabloid Sunday Mirror.
It says much about The Age’s digital strategy of click-baiting that it gave so much prominence to a story about Kylie’s retirement and an apparent bust-up with a long-time manager and that the story doesn’t withstand any scrutiny at all. Compare it with the far more sceptical and better-sourced report in News Limited’s sites.
The truth is that Kylie Minogue is currently recording an album (or whatever they’re called these digital days) that will be released this year, according to published reports. It will be her twelfth.
Contrary to the Mirror’s yarn and the The Age’s lifted version, her long-time manager Terry Blamey, around sixty-three years old and the Budgie appear to be on excellent terms, with Kylie lavishly singing his praises after the supposed business bust-up was meant to have occurred.
When The Age print edition dies, as it undoubtedly will soon, many will nostalgically mourn it, but the truth is that the quality those will eulogise mostly died many years ago.
Rehashing a London tab’s mostly false yarn about a singer as the day’s most prominent yarn, without bothering to verify a word of it is surely the final proof.