Elsewhere: Barrie Cassidy at The Drum.

Elsewhere: Bernard Keane in Crikey on Rudd and Lindsay Tanner’s announcements.

Update: Kevin Rudd on Twitter:

Thanks everyone for all the really kind messages after yesterday. They mean a lot to Therese the kids and me. Let’s stay in touch. KRudd 6:10 PM Jun 25th via web

NB: Previous LP discussion of the leadership spill is here.

The sheer onion-ness of President Obama’s Nobel win yesterday has deflected international attention from the fact that a conference of media Canutes had just declared war on the Interwebs. The announcement came at a three day “world media summit” between Western media elites and Communist cadres that Japanese Kyodo News dubbed “Beijing’s Media Olympics”. Among others, Associated Press’s CEO Tom Curley and News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch joined Chinese leader Hu Jintao on stage in the Great Hall of the People to denounce the people for the way they used media content.

Elsewhere: Spinopsys and Jeff Jarvis (link rich post).

The irony is just too obvious. At the summit, Chinese leaders tell media leaders to create just ”’true, correct, comprehensive and objective’ news coverage.” As we say online: Heh.