The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

Probably one of the first things a cadet journalist is taught on their first day on the job is that two moving objects collide; one moving object HITS a stationary object.

Pretty simple, right? But the bitter, washed-up, old hacks who compile Mediocre Bytes and its more serious sibling, Media Glass House, would love a dollar for every time they’ve taken umbrage with the likes of what appeared on Nine’s 4pm afternoon news the other day (top and below).

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And now for a question we suspect no-one in journalism should ever have thought to ask.

Below is the online plug for a Brisbane Times report on how the relatively new 50c fares on Queensland Rail’s south-east Queensland network were … aah, umm … travelling.

Can any of you BUGgers out there see any correlation between cheaper fares and services running on time? We couldn’t. Logic suggests that if platforms were crowded with commuters eagerly taken up the 50c trip offer, departure times from platforms would be delayed, if anything!

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Even very talented writers can have a bad day at the typewriter. Phil Brown, writing for InQueensland about a new exhibition of artist David Hinchliffe’s wonderful works, messed up the former city councillor’s time in public life.

Laborite Hinchliffe served one four-year term as deputy lord mayor under the LNP’s Campbell Newman, from 2014 if memory serves.

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Mediocre Bytes reckons Queensland state opposition leader David Crisafulli owes a couple of media ladies a heartfelt thank-you note.

Melissa Downes introducing a segment on Nine News Queensland the other night, and Madonna King in an article on the state election for InQueensland, both managed to work “youth crime crisis” as a matter of fact into their efforts, regardless of what the statistics say.

Over recent years, Crisafulli has hammered the “youth crime crisis” line and has well and truly won that battle to win over voters’ minds on the issue, with the enthusiastic, uncritical, fawning help of too many Queensland media outlets.

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