You’ve got to hand it to News Crap Australia when it comes to drumming up paid subscriptions for its various products.

Take the very successful podcast by The Australian’s Hedley Thomas that has been credited with reviving interest in a 40-year-old disappearance of a young Sydney woman to the extent that her husband was this week convicted of her murder.

After police and public prosecutors took the case to court the availability of the paid podcast had to be suspended.

But now that a verdict is in, News Crap is going all out to encourage people to listen to the podcast for the first time, or listen once again.

Big stories have appeared in its turdbloids around the nation doing just that. (main picture)

The only hiccup is that you need to have a paid News Crap Australia subscription to do so.

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Former PM Malcolm Turnbull was the target of student protesters when he arrived on the University of Sydney campus yesterday to speak to members of its Law Society.

But some students at the uni didn’t like the idea and staged a loud protests designed to prevent him speaking because of their objections to his government’s higher education policies.

The protests were apparently so bad – or successful, depending on your viewpoint – that Mr Turnbull was forced to depart and undertake his presentation via an online meeting app.

Naturally, having taken place at a uni full of tech-savvy young folk, the protest was captured in photos and videos on mobile phones which were reproduced by news outlets.

Fair enough. But our Media Glass House researchers took particular notice of The Australian’s coverage that consisted of an online story yesterday and one in its hardcopy version today.

Both carried the byline of Tricia Rivera, with the online version informing readers that she was a cadet reporter.

Good on you Tricia, we say. Getting a byline in the national broadshit as a lowly cadet is to be celebrated.

But what grabbed the attention of our researchers was the fact that at the bottom of the online version it was noted that Tricia is “based in Brisbane” and reports for various News Crap Australia publications included The Oz and the Brisbane turdbloid The Courier-Mail. (below)

Now don’t get us wrong, we acknowledge that news can be gathered remotely ever since the days when questions could be sent to far away people via morse code or even by letter.

But is News Crap Australia so shortstaffed that it had nobody in Sydney to cover or follow up the incident?

You may well think we are being way too trivial but, as our MGH researchers reminded us,  imagine what The Oz might have said if the ABC had done the same.  

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To end we present an item that isn’t really linked to a mainstream news or commentary outlet.

But we thought we would give it a run after having it drawn to our attention by one of our eagle-eyed MGH researchers.

The photo below was extracted from an advertisement for a popular real estate website and purportedly shows the view from an apartment in a high-rise block not yet built in the inner-Brisbane riverside suburb of Toowong and being sold now off the plan.

If you take a close look out the “window” you can see what our researcher believes to be the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

What a view! But so much for truth in advertising.