By Dorothy Thompson. Every day, it seems, someone else falls foul of the “Thought Police” and “New Age Censors”. Their quarry is accused of either read more …Continue reading MUM, DAD, HUSBAND, WIFE, MANKIND, DARL, LOVE, SWEETIE: ALL MUST GO!
By Libby Gandhi. This time last week, few had heard of the term ‘Inclusion Rider’. All that changed when Frances McDormand took to the stage read more …Continue reading What is an Inclusion Rider?
By Dorothy Thompson. Aunty (your ABC), has revealed that it pulled the wool over the ever-alert media yet again. B&T Magazine frothing at the mouth read more …Continue reading WHERE DID TRUTH & INVESTIVATIVE REPORTING GO?
By Marcus Honesta. “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” Robert Frost. We as a society are not very good at honouring either our read more …Continue reading WE SHOULD BE HONOURING OUR VISIONARIES.
By Clare Winterbourn, Born Bred Talent. In what five years ago, you would have thought impossible, a recent post by “high profiled” social influencer “Kylie read more …Continue reading SNAP, CRACKLE & CRASH: The inexplicable power of Influencers!
By Dorothy Thompson. Now the dust has settled on the “Christmas” Whops…. Summer? School? I’m not even sure what we are supposed to call them read more …Continue reading POLITICALLY CORRECT SANTA
OWNER & HOST OF THE MALAYA. RIP. By Mike Canavan. If you’ve been in the advertising, production, marketing, media, sales, television or the radio business read more …Continue reading FAREWELL LANCE WONG.
By Libby Gandhi. #MeToo is a watershed cultural moment. Going from strength to strength over recent months the campaign has effected awards ceremonies, international politics, read more …Continue reading The Origins and Omissions of #MeToo
By Dorothy Thompson. Well it’s official; as if there was any doubt at all, Kyle Sandilands is a complete unmitigated, obdurate, dolt! Although he is read more …Continue reading “HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY KYLE”!
By Dorothy Thompson. In a recent quote from Kathy Lette at the launch of her latest book (you will remember she was the author of read more …Continue reading THE GLASS CEILING: Does it really exist?
By Dorothy Thompson & Mark Ritson. Love him, hate him; but do not dismiss his views. Ritson is blunt, some might say rude, crude and read more …Continue reading WHATEVER THE MEDIUM, FAKERY IS THE NEW REALITY
By Marcus Honesta. In the normal tranquil seas that lap upon the shores of the BBC UK (now that dreadful Jeremy Clarkson has gone), things read more …Continue reading MY DEAR FELLOW I SAY: WE DIDN’T SEE THIS ONE COMING.
By Dorothy Thompson It’s all over the headlines “FACEBOOK IS ‘RIPPING APART SOCIETY”. This in not my claim, it is being said by the very read more …Continue reading FACEBOOK IS ‘RIPPING APART SOCIETY’
By Alex Wadelton, Consulting Creative Director and Writer…and Happiest Person in the World. I work as a writer in the advertising industry. Have done for read more …Continue reading Why I changed my by-line on LinkedIn to “Happiest person in the world.”
By Jeff Apter. There’s a great moment in the film High Fidelity where Rob Gordon (John Cusack) lists his five dream jobs. No 1: “Journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, read more …Continue reading ROLLING STONE AUSTRALIA: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM MUSIC MAG
By Steve May, Copywriter and Director at ROCKATANSKY. As one who has spent time playing in both creative corners, I thought I’d share some tidbits read more …Continue reading FREELANCE V PERMANENT: A Guide To Both Sides
By Dorothy Thompson. It has long been the untouchable and faceless cowards canvas where anything goes. Unsocial media’s keyboard zealot’s post hate speech without any read more …Continue reading SOCIAL MEDIA MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT
By Marcus Honesta. Blockchain is the buzzword that is getting a great deal of press at this moment. But what is Blockchain, and how will read more …Continue reading BLOCK WHAT? BLOCKCHAIN…WHAT THE HELL IS IT?
By Dorothy Thomson. If you have a child, a grand child, nephew or niece, any where from 5 to 25 years of age, then it read more …Continue reading APPLE URGED TO INVESTIGATE ADDICTIVE DEVICES
By Steve May, Copywriter and Director at ROCKATANSKY. I just want to say to all of my connections on LinkedIn, sorry for spamming. Seriously, I read more …Continue reading SORRY FOR SPAMMING: Social (media) etiquette
By Dorothy Thompson. In 2009, when Bitcoin was first created, nobody could have predicted how it would change the world. Bitcoin is a digital currency. read more …Continue reading THE BITCOIN BUBBLE
By Dorothy Thompson. It is one of my all time favourite headlines, “Headless Body in Topless Bar”, wow… I wish I had written this one. read more …Continue reading WHAT IS NEWS TODAY?
(Main image: AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS ON THE KOKODA TRAIL- PNG, WWII “THE TRUE ESSENCE OF AUSSIE MATESHIP” – Photographer: Damien Parer -July 1943 Private Wally Johnson.) read more …Continue reading WHAT IS IT TO BE AUSTRALIAN?
歡迎回到“穿越大海”和 2018 年的“POOCH”。 Huānyíng huí dào “chuānyuè dàhǎi” hé 2018 nián de “POOCH”. By Marcus Honesta. As 2018 is upon us, and in the Chinese read more …Continue reading WELCOME BACK TO CROSSING THE LINE 2018 & THE YEAR OF THE POOCH.
By Alex Wadelton, Consulting Creative Director and Writer. I’ve worked in advertising as a creative for over twenty years. Throughout that time, I’ve bluffed my read more …Continue reading Why I’m washed up, a phony, and a hack
From the Publisher of CTL. So yet another year grinds to an end, we at Crossing The Line wish to thank you our readers and read more …Continue reading 2017’s “It’s a Wrap”
By Dorothy Thompson. Given my recent piece on CTL “IS THIS A CASE FOR JUSTICE, OR SIMPLE BLOODY REVENGE”, and the case I made against read more …Continue reading THE END OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH!
By Dorothy Thompson. As the recent slew of explosive unproved accusations against well known Media Personalities and Entertainment Celebrities of accused sexual intimidation or inappropriate read more …Continue reading IS THIS A CASE FOR JUSTICE, OR SIMPLE BLOODY REVENGE?
By Libby Gandhi. In 1984 Paul Hogan offered to ‘slip an extra shrimp on the Barbie’ for Tourism Australia and charmed the world. Australia rocketed read more …Continue reading A FAIR DINKUM HOLIDAY: Marketing Australia
By Dorothy Thompson. In what now appears to be a more commercial, cynical, and secular world, we at CTL thought it might be timely to read more …Continue reading MERRY CHRISTMAS! From all at Crossing The Line