Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. There is never any lack of sex-related spam: Infidelity: it’s a right-wing, meat-eaters’ thing If your partner supports National, has a PC, drinks Coke, eats meat, has a tattoo, smokes and is a Christian, be warned – they could [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.  And in the quest for ever more sensational headline, MacDoctor brings you the original spam – food. Tasty foods linked to addiction Sugar and fat produce changes in the brain which resemble the effects of addictive drugs, a Waikato [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. There have been so many spam articles in the press recently, I haven’t had the heart to keep running Spam Journalism posts. It is a little too much like shooting fish in a barrel. However, I can’t really let [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. Educational spam always feels to me like it has an additional agenda besides increasing a newspapers sales. Certainly, the left wing blogs have all taken to calling Anne Tolley out for this one: Top school’s revolt against NCEA One [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article Has anyone noticed how much the Herald is rapidly turning into a Labour propaganda pamphlet? It seems they are only too happy to blindly publish any press release from Labour with barely an alteration. I fully expect the parliamentary [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article This piece of ecological spam even comes with pictures! Volcano collapse underlines threat of tsunami A huge undersea volcano not far from the coast has dramatically reduced in size after partly collapsing more than 100 metres toward the ocean [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article You can always count on the Herald to provide some good spam but yesterday they have outdone themselves by providing Front Page spam for us. Drink driving: why the law must change A test in which a Weekend Herald [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article Following on from my previous post on the futility of government intervention in the case of obesity, the Herald obligingly provides this piece of on-topic spam: Support high for GST trim Political momentum for removing GST from healthy food is increasing with both [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article Ah, Bain spam. My favourite. David Bain calls 111 again David Bain has again called 111 – after coming across a woman who was badly injured in a car accident, says his supporter Joe Karam. But Karam was so confident the Good Samaritan [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. It’sages since I ran one of my spam journalism posts. I have been rather busy doing an ACC audit for my practice and studying for a couple of papers I am doing for a postgraduate diploma. Blogging has, therefore, been a bit sporadic. [...]