Paper review: TV pay packets; how Stupid Stupid Man is being preserved for posterity and Telstra’s secret news project

Tim Burrowes

April 27, 2009 10:23

For any journalist who writes about media and marketing, Monday mornings is the day where your heart beats just a little faster.

You see , it’s the day that both the Australian Financial Review and The Australian publish their weekly media and marketing sections.

It can lead to strange emotions: betrayal, when somebody you thought was your bestest contact in the whole world gives a story to Shoebridge; scorn when somebody covers a story you did ten days before; admiration when somebody breaks a great tale; cynicism when some media agency boss writes a column full of naked self interest (that one happens quite a lot).

Today though, it’s indifference. It’s official. It’s a Quiet News Day.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.