Today in Media Files, budget blow-out corrections nowhere to be seen in News Corp papers, and Triple J’s Hack interviews a Nazi.

Sorry is the hardest word. News Corp tabloids splashed yesterday with news that independent modelling from the Parliamentary Budget Office showed there would be a huge hit to the budget under Labor’s tax plans. The Herald Sun said it would be more than $100 billion over 10 years, while The Daily Telegraph‘s headline put the hit at “at least” $167 billion, and the Courier Mail said it would be $150 billion.

The papers said the modelling would be released yesterday, but instead, the PBO unusually issued a statement saying it had not done the modelling referred to in the reports, saying it last released policy costings in August 2016. But open the papers this morning, and there’s not a whisper of a a correction — the Herald Sun goes so far as to repeat the “revelation” in its editorial today. According to The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Eryk Bagshaw, the Treasurer’s office took the 2016 figures and moved them forward a year for a “true toll of Labor policies”.

Hack’s Nazi interview. Triple J’s Hack program has attracted criticism for a pretty soft interview it did yesterday with the neo-Nazi and anti-Semite organiser of a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Ely Mosley. Host Tom Tilley doesn’t justify the interview during the program, and, as Pedestrian has pointed out, almost certainly got trolled by a caller claiming to be “Hershel from Brisbane”. The caller, who claimed to be Jewish, used a lot of arguments used by the alt-right crowd, including that the goal of multiculturalism was to wipe out white culture entirely. Tilley challenged the caller with questions like, “don’t white people have a right to their culture and identity?” — which has already been picked up as a meme by Alt Right Australia on Twitter.

Journos upset by swearwords. The Daily Telegraph is today reporting how horrified NSW Labor members are that their deputy leader Michael Daley used a “vile term of abuse” when discussing Labor luminary Johno Johnson, as he was on his deathbed last week. According to the snowflakes at the Tele, Daley used “the C word”, while Labor figures were questioning whether he was fit to keep his job after using such foul language. Just last week, over in South Australia, the Labor Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis was splashed on the front page of The Advertiser for using the same word to describe the boss of BankSA. As a general rule, it’s probably best never to call your colleagues or work contacts a cunt, but given how sweary politicians and journalists tend to be, it seems a little prudish to give the stories front-page treatment.

Poor ad revenue revealed before TV network results. On the eve of the country’s main listed TV companies reporting their 2016-17 results (absent the collapsed Ten Network), data has been released showing the industry had a miserable financial year. Fairfax Media, half owner of the Stan streaming video business (with Nine) reports tomorrow, as does Seven West Media. Nine, Southern Cross and Prime Media all report next week. Ahead of those reports, industry group Think TV has released ad revenue figures showing that total ad revenues fell 2.7% to $4.21 billion, with so-called advertising funded video on demand (AVOD) up 36.8% to $78 million. For the six months to June, there was a 2.7% fall in total TV ad revenues to $1.98 billion, with revenue for the TV sector down 3.19% to $1.94 billion, compared with the previous corresponding period, while AVOD revenue jumped 27.6% to $40 million. — Glenn Dyer

Daily Mail‘s new gossip TV show. Coming to a screen near you (if you happen to be in the US), the newest in TV gossip programs — the Mail Online is joining News Corp’s New York Post in producing a US-focused daily TV show. To be called “DailyMailTV”, the executive producer is Dr Phil McGraw, made famous by Oprah and then his own show, Dr Phil. CBS will distribute the show across the US and it may also be offered for sale internationally. In a press release it said the show would cover breaking news, showbiz, politics, crime, health and science and technology. It will be filmed in New York and run for an hour each day.

The New York Post already co-produces the gossip based Page Six TV, a daily television show modelled after the Post‘s Page Six gossip section. — Glenn Dyer

Shonda Rhimes poached by Netflix. Now this is big news in global TV — Shonda Rhimes, who gave the world Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal has been signed by Netflix to create new programming for the streaming video giant (with a US$6 billion a year budget). She leaves her long time US free-to-air home in ABC Studios.

Along with her goes her Shondaland production group which has evolved from a name to full US production company with its own structure and staff. Shondaland, in which Rhimes is partnered with Betsy Beers, will function as a division of Netflix’s in-house studio. Rhimes negotiated an early exit from her ABC deal (she was with ABC for 12 years) which had a year left on it to sign a new four years deal with Netflix.

Rhimes will continue to work on the ABC shows Shondaland has on the air. Rhimes’ series already are among the most popular off-network titles on Netflix. How to Get Away with Murder streams everywhere else in the world on Netflix, with Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal available on Netflix in many regions as well.

Rhimes is the latest top level US TV producer hired by Netflix — others include Chuck Lorre (Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, and Mom.), Jenji Kohan (Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black) and Marta Kauffman (co-creator of the popular sitcom, Friends). — Glenn Dyer

Glenn Dyer’s TV Ratings. The Block (1.546 million national viewers), This Time Next Year (1.376 million and the feel good of 2017, beating True Stories, which is on tonight) and solid performances by the news from 6pm to 7pm and A Current Affair — the night was Nine’s.

Seven and Ten were weak, again. Ten’s Survivor, 846,000 national viewers (ruined the lead-in audience for Have You Been Paying Attention, watched by 885,000, which was the metro audience when MasterChef was the lead-in). Seven’s Hell’s Kitchen averaged 943,000 national viewers, and there were shots of Marco Pierre White looking over his flock as they did whatever they were doing outside and thinking, “only so many days left and my money is in my bank account”.

The ABC’s Q&A should have had a good night last night — Barnaby Joyce’s NZ adventure, same-sex marriage, both on the pubic agenda, and yet it could only manage 590,000 national viewers and just 401,000 in the metros — fading as we watch. — Read the rest on the Crikey website