The Media Empire Blog: GNW writings & more

The govt. has dropped all mentions of the term “WorkChoices” in its literature & advertising. They are now using the more “voter friendly” term:
Coalition of the Working
Enforced Happiness
FluffyChoices
HappyFunChoices
Work Liberation
Democratic Freedom Choices
VoteLiberal
AllrightWeAdmitItYouHaveNoChoices
They dropped the original term when they realised it was a blatant lie.
Their total spend on ads in the lead up to the election [...]

A camera crew from the UK Ministry of Defence will follow Prince Harry around on his tour of duty in Iraq. It’s getting hard to escape those bloody paparazzi!
The footage of Harry will then be broadcast on TV & the ‘Net in a bid to counter terrorist propaganda. Reality TV – now [...]

In Canada, an MP has launched a petition to have Bigfoot protected as an endangered species. He says that if we don’t protect it, its native habitat will be totally overrun by Unicorns.
In Canada, an MP has launched a petition to have Bigfoot protected as an endangered species. So far he’s got signatures [...]

A senior union leader has described John Howard as “a skidmark on the bedsheet of Australian politics.” So Aussie politics is a bedsheet. No wonder it sends me to sleep.
But these days Howard isn’t just any ordinary skidmark – he’s a nuclear skidmark. Be very afraid.
A senior union leader has described John [...]