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.

In what may be a first for this column, we’ve got no brickbats, only bouquets, to throw the way of Nine News Queensland weekend newsreader Paul Taylor for his effort in last night’s (Saturday’s) 6pm bulletin to keep great English words alive and well.

At bulletin’s end and after weatherman Luke Bradnam had shown a clip of a fine fish haul, Turner called it as “some stonking snapper in that fishing report!”.

We are not sure when was the last time “stonking” was used in either polite or impolite conversation, let alone in a news broadcast, but applaud Taylor for keeping great English words alive! We’re just as stoked as he is stonked!

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Okay, that’s enough of the praise no-one expects from this column and the bitter, washed-up, old hacks who compile it.

Here’s one where a sub-editor at The Australian deserves some brickbats attached to a rocket up their clacker.

Disgraced former NSW pollie Daryl Maguire who also once squeezed Gladys Berejiklian’s bits may be guilty of a lot of things but being a ex-ALP member is not one of them.

Steve Zemek makes no mention whatsoever of Maguire’s political affiliations in his yarn so we can only sheet the blame home to some sub-editor looking for a pay rise at the Oz.

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