Sunday Star Times goes to the dogsHooray. It's not just me. I was reading the Sunday Star Times in the weekend and just couldn't get over how bad it was. Damian Christie over at Public Address had the same thoughts as I did with regards to the paper trumpeting its Qanta Media Awards wins...

Speaking of No Credibility, why does the Sunday Star Times find it necessary to refer to the Qantas Awards as "the print industry's equivalent of the Oscars"?

The Oscars? Hardly - it's much more like the NZ Film Awards: few contestants, no public interest, no kudos for winning. As Damian points out, with lots of awards and only a handful of papers competing for them, everyone's going to get a swag of awards to blow their horns about. Pointless. Anyway, reading through the paper, there was an article on NZ's teenage pregnancy levels, which, according to the SST, are the third highest in the world. "Third highest in the world?" I thought. Really? Compared to virtually any third world nation where they're marrying the kids off at 12 and 13? Oh, right, as I read an entirely different article on the same topic, it transpires that we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. Slightly different, isn't it? Russell Brown also gets stuck into the paper a bit here, and you can read Damian's full piece here (and, for the record, Damian was prescient enought to make the "SST is going to the dogs" call a couple of weeks ago).
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