CANBERRA: Multi-award winning and much-loved ABC politics veteran scribe and analyst Patricia Karvelas has sensationally resigned this morning, ending decades of service to the national broadcaster. Karvelas walked out of the ABC’s Canberra studios for the last time this morning (above) after resigning the moment she heard a money-hungry business

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

Today I can report to The Bug reader on a new concept in TV entertainment programs that our national broadcaster, the ABC, will offer soon to Australian audiences. My sources within the national broadcaster tell me that the new program will blend two important ingredients that have been a feature of

Now who wouldn’t like to see that! Before we all put pegs on our noses and burn off a rather eclectic final mix of our Xcrements-of-Last-Week, we thought we’d kick off with the image (above and below) fropm a video posted by so many Xers that

… WELL, WE NEVER! You BUGgers out there have probably never thought about how our compilers decide whether some media fuckup should be in our Mediocre Bytes column that look at the silly little mistakes that worry us about the state of journalism or in its more serious sibling Media

Our first tranche of Xcrements-of-the-Week on Monday concentrated on the Liberal Party’s new federal leadership, still pushing old policies and platforms … for now at least. Today we return to the ongoing virtal shitstorm that has settled above the head of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his recklessly stupid state-visit