Random thoughts and observations
I’m slow catching up with the local news, but this extraordinary article from the Weekly Times Messenger caught my eye: “Charles Sturt Council has asked media representatives to sit on opposite sides of the chamber’s gallery in each meeting in order to get a different perspective of the debate. The council’s staff approached a Weekly Times Messenger Reporter last week and asked her to stop sitting on the same side of the chamber each meeting.
There has been a lot of discussion about newspapers charging for online content, but not much has been said about bloggers doing the same. A company called Fraxion Payments has now made it possible for bloggers to charge as little as one cent per article. “Creators of quality content can now charge for their work,” [...]
As a copy editor it irritates me when organisations adopt names that don’t use capital letters. The practice has become common in the internet age. It defies all grammatical rules for a name to be uncapitalised. I’m a ruthless anti capitalist and kill stray capitals whenever I see them, especially in titles. The president of [...]
I received several calls today about our “street sweeper” question in the paper. This is a daily vox pop where we ask people to comment briefly on a topical issue. The controversial question was: “Should young children be led to believe in Santa?” I had more complaints about that than anything else in the past [...]
I was surprised the Australian Press Council upheld a complaint against the Sunday Age for obtaining information from a source without informed consent. The girl was drunk when she spoke to the newspaper, which is what the story was about. I remember reading it. The story was on “ladettes” … young women who drink a [...]
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