Sightseeing News

And now some light news: Ivanka Trump has posted a snap on her Instagram page of her current holiday in Croatia with her traveling companion, Wendi Murdoch who we featured a few days ago partying in New York. Is Wendi the girlfriend of Russia's Vladimir Putin as claimed? .

Cleo Clanger

Feel for the staff of Cleo Magazine who probably read today via the Daily Telegraph that they would lose their jobs as the magazine closes. Cleo came as part of the package when the James Packer sold out his publishing interests to the giant German Bauer Media Group in 2012.

First published 44 years ago with the venerable Packer favorite Ita Buttrose as editor (a shout-out to Ita who Whispers found themselves with in a Surry Hills post office queue just a few days ago), Cleo was aimed at an older female audience. Recently their Bachelor Of The Year awards have received plenty of publicity (aided by some self-important publicists who seemed oblivious to the rapidly changing world of media). Circulation has hovered around 53000 a year with a claimed readership of 173000 and a claimed 300,000 online readers.
But just look at Whispers'(thesocialshuttle.com) online readership (left : Google's figures) . Daily views are around 2300 with monthly views around 72000 which is not dissimilar to a monthly magazine or a local newspaper (and a shout out to our daily 300 approx readers who are in Russia). Of course it's very hard to compare and many factors influence readership but compared to a blog run by 1.5 (part timer) and a dyslexic cat who claims to be the sub-editor, something must give in these print publications and the large staff needed to run them.

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Meanwhile as the Happy Couple, Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall announce their engagement, Don Rupioni's beloved Sun Newspaper is under investigation for claims it was also involved in phone hacking. We couldn't help but notice a recent cover. As one irreverent wag from that august publication put it : "how dare they, that's our job"

Lady Georgia Campbell rules in the Jungle but why was she at this London demo?

 She's taking no prisoners during her stint in the jungle in northern NSW and her adopted son Dima has flown into town to support her stating "don't mess with mum" in this MailOnline article. Lady Georgia Campbell looks like she may emerge as the winner in the popular British reality program I'm a Celebrity-Get me Out of Here.
Dima is one of two boys Lady Campbell adopted from Russia as infants, to raise in genteel surroundings in Kennington in South London.
Now a reader has sent us this exclusive snap (above) of Lady Georgia at a rally in London recently, apparently outside the Royal Courts of Justice and where attendees were wearing t-shirts saying "Forced Adoption". Not only that the demonstrators where handing out leaflets promoting a recent bizarre scandal in the ritzy suburb of Hampstead where numerous residents, teachers and members of a church were alleged to belong to a Satanic Cult that shipped in babies from all over the world to use in rituals during which the children would be murdered and eaten! A High Cort judgement lambasted the promoters as fantasists and claimed the whole thing was an elaborate & cruel hoax. 
Was Lady Campbell attending the demo? She seems to be in deep conversation with a demonstrator. Or perhaps she was merely passing by and stopped to see what all the hullabaloo was about. Most odd.

Noah's Ark Steams Ahead

Noah premieres are popping up around the world. Moscow hosted a gala premiere with our Russ in attendance accompanied by our favourite Russian born Australian boxing champ Kostya Tszyu as the Shuttle's exclusive pic shows.