- HOLY SHIT THIS NEWS IS BREAKING -
by Ben Thomson | 1:06 am, 19/07/2010
The biggest story at the beginning of last week was, of course, the shooting of police officers and a dog in Christchurch. It led every newspaper in the country on Wednesday. Every newspaper… except the ODT.
by Ben Thomson | 10:24 pm, 11/07/2010
Channel 9 is a local television station owned by Allied Press, whose other esteemed media offerings are the ODT and the Star.
by Ben Thomson | 8:25 pm, 11/07/2010
The Star. A few weeks ago. We’ve been meaning to get to it sooner but the ODT has just been so darn funny. The Star is the ODT’s sister publication, which comes out once a week and focuses on community issues.
by Ben Thomson | 4:19 pm, 11/07/2010
So what has dear John Lewis been up to since he spilled the beans in Critic about how much sway Vice Chancellor Sir Professor David Skegg really holds at Allied Press HQ?
by Ben Thomson | 1:26 pm, 11/07/2010
ODT! What the fuck is going on!? Let’s start at the beginning.
by Ben Thomson | 3:30 am 28/06/2010
We start with the ODT’s brilliant review of the film Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day sucks if you’re alone, but it is really good if you are not. Four stars. That was it. (Bless – they got confused and reviewed the actual day and not the movie). Guess it’s almost cute, really. If it wasn’t so fucked up.
The angry policeman is back on the front page of Monday’s paper. Not actually that interesting. He was co-ordinating the response to that tsunami that wasn’t. We were just excited to see him again. (He still looked mad).
Of course, at time of going to print, over 300 people had been confirmed dead in Chile. The capital city was reportedly pwnz0red. But the ODT leads with the 200 Otago residents who were “moved to higher ground” and the 60 campers who were “evacuated.”
The second big story on Monday’s page opens with: “Wakari resident Gillian Thomas was able to relax and concentrate on making strawberry jam yesterday afternoon after finding out her 17-year-old son, Billy Greer, was safe in Santiago.” Thank Christ. But what about the dead South Americans? Oh, they’re on page 7.
On Tuesday, more non-dead Kiwis in Santiago on the front page. More dead South Americans on page 7.
Priorities.
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