Many members of our Media Glass House teams were shocked late last week when they came across what they believe to be an item that blatantly exploited a well-known young Australian’s understandably fragile emotions.

News Crap Australia turdbloids around the nation carried a picture story showing popular young wildlife warrior turned TV host Robert Irwin at a Melbourne waxworks museum which he visited to unveil a wax model of himself.

But it was another display that was the focus of the story that appeared in Friday’s edition of the Brisbane daily The Courier-Mail. (main picture)

The story told readers of Robert’s “emotional” response to the particular display and his efforts to “hold back tears” when first catching sight of the wax model in question.

Our MGH researchers were, quite frankly, disgusted that The Courier-Mail would exploit young Robert’s response.

Pointing to the photo in the story, they argue that anyone with any semblance of humanity would have an equally emotional response to a display showing a crocodile almost attacking NRL legend Fatty Vautin.

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Does any media outlet in our wide brown land still employ any sub-editors to make sure what they publish is actually factual?

That’s the question our MGH teams continue to pose. And they are not quibbling about the obvious need to verify or clarify very complicated information for readers.

No, they are constantly amazed at the number of times very basic and easily verifiable information is totally fucked up, to coin a phrase our MGH researchers themselves often employ.

Take as an example the obituary The Australian Financial Review ran last week following the death of colourful barrister and former politician Tom Hughes.

The extract below shows two different years presented to readers for when Hughes delivered a eulogy at the funeral of former prime minister John Gorton.

Was it in 2016 as written in the text of the item, or was it in 2002 as detailed in a picture caption?

Our MGH researchers took 17 seconds to determine it should have been 2002 in both instances.

For a newspaper that naturally contains lots of figures in its coverage financial markets and business deals, our MGH teams believe the AFR might get such a basic and easily verifiable numeral correct.

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Our MGH researchers were taken aback when flicking through the Murdoch media’s national broadshit The Australian last week.

They stumbled upon a full-page advertisement unsurprisingly attacking the federal Labor Government inserted by the right-wing groupthink tank the Institute of Public Affairs. (below)

Odd, they thought, The Australian usually runs anti-Labor IPA ads for free in its news and commentary columns.

They wondered if and how much the IPA paid for the ad and whether it gives a clue to the financial health of The Oz if it is passing the hat around to outfits like the IPA which already shovel heaps of material to News Crap Australia and save the Murdoch media the need and cost of employing its own Righters.

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