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- February 16, 2007
Non-news of the week
This week’s non-news that has had plenty of media coverage includes the following gems. Fascinating what news editors consider to be major stories in their TV news and newspapers!
1. No, she didn’t, wait …. yes she did
Lisa Robertson is, soon to be was I’d speculate, a Qantas stewardess. On a flight to Mumbai, she had actor Ralph Fiennes as a passenger in business class. She was the subject of complaints by fellow crew members that she’d shagged him in the toilet, which at first she vigorously denied, but today it seems she’s fessed up …this is according to an English tabloid, so I guess the veracity of the story is questionable.
Obviously a story so vital that its been plastered all over the news for the best part of a week, and Ms Robertson has apparently done a kiss and tell deal with the English Daily Mail, I think I heard for 100k (dollars or pounds?)
Update (21/2/2007): This story just got more and more lurid as time went on, with Robertson telling pretty much all to the English tabloids and getting the bullet from Qantas. She deserved the sack too, not for the fucking in the toilet so much, but for doing it on company time, also the time she spent earlier talking to Fiennes … no wonder its hard sometimes to find an attendant to get you a drink. Wonder if we can expect this level of inflight service whenever we next fly with Qantas?
By the way, Robertson’s job prospects in the airline industry are bleak. Qantas won’t have her, and the competition is Virgin Blue … the “blue” might be apt, but not the “virgin”.
Update (26/2/2007): This story just gets stupider and stupider. Lisa Robertson should just keep her mouth shut and fade into obscurity. She is now just coming across as a skanky desperate famewhore, eeking out every detail of her root with Ralph Fiennes to keep herself in the public eye. Oooh, I might be pregnant …what next? Hey look at me, I got a bruise on my arse from where the tap pressed into it?
Update (08/3/2007): Any connection with this story of a baby found abandoned in a toilet cubicle? Wonder if it was made in a toilet 9 months earlier?
2 . Corby vs Power
Schapelle Corby has been out of the news a bit recently, so up pops a former friend Jodi Power who went on “Today Tonight” (a truly crap piece of television) to accuse Corby’s family of drug connections and dealings. In particular, there’s been a slanging match all week, mainly between Channel 7 (on which “Today Tonight screens) and Channel 9 (which has the competitor “A Current Affair”) … the latter trying to undermine 7’s story. Schapelle’s sister, Mercedes, angrily denied Power’s allegations, appearing on “A Current Affair”. They’ve had lie detectors and all sorts of junk involved in this story. Absolutely essential news, I think not!
In looking for news on this story, I found this, which basically is in line with my theory on the case …Schapelle’s taken the fall for another family member, possibly on the grounds that she thought she’d get a more sympathetic hearing from the Indonesian courts. That plan clearly didn’t work
Wonder what big news stories will be served up next week?
Technorati Tags: Lisa Robertson, Ralph Fiennes, mile high club, chequebook journalism, Schapelle Corby, Mercedes Corby, Jodi Power, Bali, drug smuggler, pointless news stories, tabloid television
7 Responses to “Non-news of the week”
Schapelle is not guilty of drug smuggling she guilty of covering for her sister she deserves the 20yrs and her sister 40yrs for letting Schapelle take the wrap as long as there both in Bali not our problem
By jane on Feb 16, 2007
So he shagged a stewardess? *shrug* Wouldn’t many of us given half the chance? Does it really need to be plastered all over the paper?
By Aurelius on Feb 16, 2007
Firstly the stewardess, her fringe is circa 1990, my sister loved that style.
I think the whole Corby family are a pack of shonky bogans, however, Mercedes is lower than low. You don’t dob on your mates, and not in such a spectacularly trashy way either.
By Steph on Feb 17, 2007
Daddy’s little Girl—Work Ethic In The Toilet “I’m Lisa. Fly Me!”
Her dad Graham Robertson, was quoted as saying” Lisa just does her job and if someone wants a cup of coffee and biscuits, she looks after them.” I guess bathroom sex is part of her $24,000 per year job. Check please.
Ba-Bye—Thank you for flying Qantas. Flight crew, you can now return your passengers to their upright positions.
Ed at
http://hotelanyware.blogspot.com/
By Ed Reif on Feb 19, 2007
Smart Girl. Her story was clearly worth more than a couple years pay then. Stupid celebs if he didn’t want to get caught.
Shaggery Corby and co. are true hopeless. Boganity at its worst.
By Anonymous on Feb 20, 2007
It was definitely a slow news week for these stories to hit the headlines - especially the stewardess making out like she was the victim in the story. Come on!
By Michelle on Feb 24, 2007
I just saw Wil Anderson on Saturday and he did the best retelling of that first story, from the play on Ralph’s name (which he pronounces Raph *eye roll*) to how Qantas could use this as a selling point. Great stuff.
By chosha on Feb 25, 2007