Backbencher

I was not sure exactly what to look for since the set up of this site reminded me a lot of, say, The New York Times. They had many similar sections such as sports, news, business, and lifestyle. I don’t do politics here and I wasn’t going to be able to follow anything on Australian politics, so I looked at the top ten articles for the day and number one was an article about Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby, and there were numerous other articles concerning entertainment…so this leads me to think that they are perhaps just as wrapped up in the entertainment industry as we are in the U.S. There upwards of ten articles hashing over Heath Ledger’s death and they have apparently taken his death very hard because they felt that he was a kind of representative for Australia in the increasingly international cinematic stage of Hollywood. One article mourned that Australian entertainment was becoming a “sub-contractor” of Hollywood.

This may sound creepy, but this newspaper had a “dating” section that I decided to explore. I found a few rugged looking blokes and refined ladies, but it is so strange how so many people look for relationships online or via the classifieds. Maybe it is that in Australia some people are finding themselves too busy to go out looking for love as so many Match.com users in America would claim.

Other popular articles included a crime report on someone who bottled another person in the eye socket and one about a shark who was beheaded to save a person’s life. Apparently, they are quite interested in events that sound intense. They have several different pages for different sports activities. This would lead me to believe that Australians take their sports and exercise very seriously…I could be wrong though?