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The craft of sub-editing

It certainly was, Ned!

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Another night shift has passed at the The Sydney Morning Herald where our sub-editors didn’t have a fucking […]

October 30, 2025 advertising, Australia, business, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Publishing, social media

Herald subs still clowning around

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Clearly our long-running campaign to educate The Sydney Morning Herald production people as to some of the basics […]

October 23, 2025 Australia, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Politics, social media

Cut it out, you clowns!

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Here beginith lesson #89 in the wonderful craft of subediting, once more aimed at the clowns who, when […]

October 12, 2025 advertising, Australia, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Publishing, social media

Is our campaign finally over?

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Can The Bug finally junk the above image from our graphics library? That at the very least is […]

August 5, 2025 Australia, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Media, Publishing, social media

Subs who can’t add up…

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…. or simply can’t be bothered? Gerry Harvey may not have many, if any, redeeming features  but here’s […]

July 17, 2025 Australia, Breaking News, business, Entertainment, Exclusive, Media, Publishing, social media

We’d love to turn the page!

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Youse BUGgers out there have been warned before: if you’re fucking sick and tired of the long-running campaign […]

June 7, 2025 Australia, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Publishing, social media

Hartcher unseated as politics guru!

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The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage […]

June 6, 2025 Albanese Government, Australia, Australian politics, Entertainment, Exclusive, Media, Politics, Publishing, sex, social media

A trifecta of subbing fuckups…

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… and one very unlikely to ever be beaten! What is it they say? Pride comes before a […]

May 16, 2025 advertising, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Politics, Publishing, social media

Is this hardly normal practice..

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… ever going to end? Ever since the world’s first printed newspaper rolled off German presses in 1605 […]

March 21, 2025 Australia, Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive, Literature, Media, Politics, Publishing

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