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Here are the completely not definitive Australian news media moments of 2020 (the serious and devastating mass job losses and gross contraction of media outlet numbers aside)
In no particular order. Thread.
In no particular order. Thread.
The brazenly bad take of a rich white man born rich and white staying rich and white as he got older despite his stutter.
Every TV interview during lockdown was upstaged by the interviewees’ kids.
Best tweet by a politician award.
This guy’s takes on the pandemic response 
That time @NPR embarrassed itself on the international stage by mispronouncing emu
The @smh story about Sydney’s new ferries severing commuters from the waist up.
The Nationals launching a ‘news’ website that will be in no way political or pay writers in a year when all the regional newspapers were closing. Points for both failing to read the rural room *and* taking political advantage of it when it’s down
When one journalism job paid at a pretty average rate officially and unashamedly became 19 jobs in one. And you’re still expected to be grateful.
All the lulz
That time the prestigious national journalism awards classily suggested, in the middle of a year where journalists were losing their jobs left right and centre, we should all climb over our nemesis to win a Walkley. That’ll show the world. (They did apologise.)
The least confusing analogy in the history of reporting
Sky News After Dark is taking over the world. Thanks for the nightmares @cameronwilson
And finally, that hilarious moment Australia’s national newswire @AAPNewswire had to crowdfund to stay reporting.
