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.

This nice little fuckup above from The Courier-Mail a wee while ago was brought to our attention by famous retired rugby league journo and Lang Park Media Hall of Famer Barry Dick.

Here it is again..

Our hearts really go out to anyone detined to give borth while in the puzzle!

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Okay, okay! We do admit to getting a bit picky in this column, especially over little mistakes in the news strips (chyrons) across the bottom of our news screens.

But there’s a bouquet lobbed into this example.

As you can see on the left, in a report from News Breakfast’s Winter Olympics reporter, we weren’t quite sure of the sex of the Aussie who won silver in the men’s halfpipe. Men?s? If our medallist was one of those competitors injecting their penis to make it larger and give them an advantage in speed down hill or improve his chances in the bar apres-ski, perhaps he should have been in the one-and-a-half pipe?

Anyway, someone in the ABC studio had that little mistake fixed in a jiffy – a matter of minutes – and trust us, these little mistakes can hang around for a very long time like a shit in Trump’s diaper.

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One we couldn’t snare on News Breakfast the other day – the vision of our two gutless mongrels firing away from that walk bridge at Bondi Beach was accompanied by the phrase “alleged gunmen”.

A few days later when the surviving gutless mongrel appeared in court, an “alleged” was thrown in perfectly. But in the above case, the bitter, twisted and tired old hacks who compile this column thought “alleged” was just a little bit unnecessary. We could clearly see what we could see.

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