SMH

The Sydney Morning Herald, never in my experience a great paper, is now, online at least, pretty much trash. Yesterday the top 'National' headline was 'paraglider dangles from tree for five hours.' Nevermind floods, bushfires, job losses and so on; they can come later or not at all. Paraglider in a tree! Reptiles in a suitcase!

Today I see a piece on women (Pammy etc.) over 40 - mutton or MILF? For fucks sake, I expect that shit from Zoo or Nuts magazine, not from the main daily paper in New South Wales. (OK, the Telegraph may hold that spot; they'd likely run a different story about immigrants or homosexuals or terrorists or Muslims or gay Muslim immigrant terrorists. You get the picture.) If you want to be a quality paper (therein lies the problem) you'd do well to avoid acronyms in which the F is for Fuck. Mommy, what is mutton? What's a MILF? In fact, you'd do better to avoid that shit altogether and just report the fucking news.

Odd to see the article though; the front page of the Herald website is typically obscured by a fucking great advert box.

I feel better now.