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.

There shouldn’t be a well-trained and observant journalist working in this country who does not know that the Bondi Junction killer was armed with a large hunting knife as he took the lives of six innocent shoppers and injured others last year.

But the ABC’s News Breakfast scribe the other morning, when reporting from Sydney on the inquest into that shocking day’s events, declared the killer had been armed with a hatchet/machete. We’ve used both words because it took us a while to write down his words and by then we weren’t 100 per cent sure which one he used and we couldn’t check it on iview. Yes, our team of compilers are getting old… and forgetful. We’ve told you that many, many times.

But be that as it may, we were in absolutely no doubt that it was a very ugly and very fatal and quite large hunting knife on that sad day that shocked us all. That ABC scribe should have known that.

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This column dips its lid to one very clever flying machine as the ABC reported the other day.

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And we’re pretty sure that this wasn’t reporter Ebony Cavallaro on Nine News Queensland the other night. Yes, we know! Picky! Picky!

And finally, this little gem from yesterday’s (Friday’s) online Herald Sun in Melbourne, spotted by our good friend and former top-shelf and highly respected TV scribe Dean Felton.

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