The Australian way

The Australian way

Posted January 5th, 2010 by debritz

This is very exciting. Australian media is now reporting the arts like it reports sport -- i.e. telling us that the Aussie lost before telling us who actually won. Here's how thecouriermail.com.au reported the result of the Costa poetry prize (and yes, they did leave off the "d" on award in the headline):

Commisserations to Clive James, who didn't win, and congratulations to Christopher Reid, who did.

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