July 2011

Is there any coming back for Murdoch after this?

26 July 2011

People are falling over themselves to get some distance from the once powerful Sun King.

The News of the World phone hacking scandal has become a juggernaut, crashing through the once unassailable walls of Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence and power. What started in 2009 as a case of celebrity maltreatment garnering little serious attention outside media ethics classes was instantly transformed the moment it was revealed the same tactics [...]

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A non-pedant’s defence of the Oxford comma

6 July 2011

The humble Oxford comma

Harry Mount, writing in the UK’s Telegraph (republished in The Age today) admonishes Oxford University Press for bowing to pressure from vocal pedants on Twitter to keep the Oxford comma (also known as the serial comma) in their updated stylebook. It’s an outdated form of punctuation whose time is up, Mount writes.

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