Seven News’ Haiti coverage: four years old, wrong country, sourced from Twitter. Channel Seven News used the National Geographic picture of a 2004 Japan quake as part of its story this evening on Haiti, four hours after Crikey announced that it had nothing to do with Haiti. Its source? “Twitter”. As in the SMH, the Japanese writing visible on the signs in the background was conveniently cut off.

Watch it here.

— an anonymous Crikey reader

CNN is on the ball. “Just sitting in a hotel in Tokyo and switched over to CNN to find out what has been happening in Haiti and found this very up to date breaking news,” writes Crikey reader Rob:

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32 stories more important to the Daily Tele than the Haiti earthquake — including avocado prices and a pretty garden. A list of stories run in today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph further forward than its coverage of the hundreds of thousands dead in Haiti … The Telegraph’s coverage (three half pages) of the Haiti disaster begins on page 18 after a teaser pic on page 7. — mUmBRELLA

We’re censoring nudist magazines now? A newsagent has been asked to remove the current issue of Go Natural, a naturist magazine out of New Zealand, from the shelves because of concerns about child p-rnography. — Australian Newsagency Blog

Gawker offers $100k to get its mitts on an Apple Tablet. We’ve had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple’s impending tablet — how it’ll work, its size, the name, the software and whether it will save magazines. We want answers, dammit! And we’re willing to pay. — Gawker

Now that‘s an employee bonus! For the rest of the year, once each quarter, the Condé Nast employee with the best idea about improving the company will receive — you ready? — a prize of $10,000. — The New York Observer

Today’s show was brought to you by the buttons Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start. Warner Bros has inked a new deal with Sesame Workshop to develop and publish video games based on the Sesame Street license, hopefully bringing more Muppets to an industry deficient on goggle eyes and felt. — Kotaku

HOT SCOOP: Sarah Palin popular with Fox News viewers! Palin’s first appearance as an on-air analyst with the network, on Tuesday night’s O’Reilly Factor, drew 3.954 million total viewers — more than everything else on cable news in the 8pm hour combined. — The Huffington Post

Why e-Readers are doomed. The Kindle is looking almost lost now among the flurry of new e-book reading devices just released or due soon. So many are out, in fact, that 2010 is really the year of the e-reader. But only 2010. Because e-readers are doomed. — Fast Company

Job ad of the day. Looks like Seek’s been hacked again. “Biotic-Powered Super-Soldier” — how cool. Or, the job is real. We report, you decide:

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