ABC Rural reporter Cherie von Hörchner broadcast a story last week headlined: "Complaint lodged over alleged verbal abuse against sheep".
My colleague Michael Safi and I deconstructed her story – headlined "Complaint lodged over alleged verbal abuse against sheep" last week and it was also the subject of a Media Watch story on Monday.
The headline says, "Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the Reagan '80s," while the chart compares tax rates in 1980 and 2010.
The biggest surprise was the contrast between The Times's headline declaring rising complaints and the limited number of complaints that were actually reported.
Soon after being named to lead the school system, he made headlines with a complaint that the Board of Education offices were "an absolute pigsty".
The diplomat - who went on to be Britain's ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined "Rushdie's Complaint".
So dependent on his favor are the reporters who regularly cover 10 Downing Street that one of them, George Jones, political correspondent of Mr. Blair's Conservative tormentor, The Daily Telegraph, this month wrote a personal essay of complaint headlined "Alastair Campbell stops me from doing my job".
Earlier this month, China's state-run media picked up the complaint with headlines like "No compensation angers Chinese".
ALTHOUGH most of the mail that comes to the public editor's office can be described as frustrated complaints (Misleading headline! Wrongheaded columnist! Enough about Brooklyn already!), there is a second category of correspondence.
Roth, who made his debut in 1959 with a brilliant novella, Goodbye, Columbus, and hit the international headlines with Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, is nothing if not a stayer.
