Our occasional look at the not-so-glaring mistakes that still amuse the bitter and twisted washed-up old hacks who put together the Media Glass House column.

And maybe you’ll find some of them just a little too picky? Take Josh Bavas’s report on Nine Brisbane’s 6pm news on Sunday January 1 about the release of 1992 Queensland cabinet documents.

Josh finished an excellent segment with this: “These documents are released by state archives every 30 years.”

Well, actually, Josh, they are released every year. Ooh, picky! Picky!

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Our compilers keep getting upset by the number of TV news reports that have vehicles “colliding with” stationary objects such as trees, fences, parked cars, house walls etc, etc.

In their day in the mainstream mediocre, albeit in another millennium, these cars simply hit trees, fences, parked cars, house walls, etc, etc. “Colliding” was left for when moving objects came together.

With that in mind, and acknowledging he’s a damn fine cricket writer, should we really blame Malcolm Conn for falling into the same trap.

He is, after all, only a sports writer and not a news reporter so he really shouldn’t be required to know the basics of good journalism, right?

Oh, bugger it! When have we at the Media Glass House and its fishy little offspring ever taken prisoners?

So, Malcolm, try to remember that moving objects collide!

Hmm, wait on. That would mean a batsman’s bat collides with a ball? Yet we happily say that a batsmen has hit the ball with his bat.

We’ll get back to you on that one, okay?

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We missed this little ABC error from last Sunday that’s much in the same vein as Josh Bavas’s rather harmless but still funny archives mistake. We are indebted to some chap named Mike Carlton for bringing it to our attention.