Today in Media Files, shock jocks Ray Hadley and Neil Mitchell are in the midst of a public spat over Hadley’s awful Macklemore parody song, and the Melbourne newspapers have more in common than you might have thought.

Good feud guide. Shock jock Ray Hadley of 2GB has entered into a new battle, this time with his Melbourne colleague Neil Mitchell, who broadcasts on 3AW. Mitchell was not impressed with an odd parody song Hadley played during coverage of the NRL grand final instead of the live performance by US rapper Macklemore. Hadley had been railing against the choice of performer (he says it should have been an Australian, not that he has a problem with Macklemore’s song Same Love).

Mitchell said on his program yesterday the parody was “unprofessional” and “embarrassing”, and that set Hadley off on his own rant (which 2GB has been promoting on its social media channels), including the delightful phrase: “Stick your head up your bum, Neil.”

Hadley and Mitchell had worked for competing networks until the merge of Macquarie Radio, owner of 2GB, and Fairfax radio, owner of 3AW. Hadley and his breakfast-slot colleague Alan Jones last month had it in for Fairfax over how its newspapers were reporting radio ratings.

Las Vegas hoaxes. Within minutes of the Las Vegas shooting making news last night, trolls were already circulating fake information online, including fake victim photos, conspiracy theories about the shooter and claims that incorrectly identify the shooter. BuzzFeed is keeping a running toll of hoaxes being spread online here.

Tiger time. The Melbourne newspapers were united in their support of Richmond in the AFL grand final last week. So united, in fact, that The Age and the Herald Sun ran four identical front-page headlines over the weekends before and of the big game:

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Sunday, October 1, 2017

‘Tiser pulls back home delivery. South Australia’s daily newspaper has stopped its daily home delivery service to Port Lincoln, on the Eyre Peninsula. The Port Lincoln Times reported that The Advertiser had written to subscribers saying the cost of air freight was too high, so papers would be instead be driven to the city, arriving too late for a home delivery service. Subscribers can still have The Advertiser delivered on weekends, and buy the daily paper from retail outlets.

Glenn Dyer’s TV ratings. Back to school — well, back to life without football (and how many months/days/hours to the NRL and AFL seasons start in 2018?). And last night it meant the last room reveal for The Block and Nine winning yet another week. More than 2 million people watched The Block across the country (and over 1.4 million in the metros). The ABC had a solid enough night to push Ten back to fourth. Australian Survivor could only manage 798,000 national viewers — Have You Been Paying Attention was watched by 929,000. Once again Ten fans vote with their remotes.

In regional markets The Block also topped the night with 670,000 viewers, with Seven News next with 612,000, then Seven News/Today Tonight with 488,000, Home and Away was fourth with 434,000 and A Current Affair fifth with 392,000. — Read the rest on the Crikey website